I'm a fandom butterfly but sometimes I return to the same garden

[elizabeth_hoot]

aka "I've been writing Faramir fic again." Actually, the idea was to write dark!Faramir, but it's more like "slightly less restrained Faramir."

Comments

[jedibuttercup]

Ooo, interesting. How different things might have been.

[elizabeth_hoot]

Thank you! Originally I was just trying to think of a scenario where Faramir would come out harsher, but once I stopped to think of it, it was really tempting to go further with this one--there's lots that could go on.

[phyloxena]

Not dark, but more ruthless than Tolkien canon good guys. Which is, I guess, exactly your point. I was thinking recently about Denethor/Faramir (doesn't matter which, right?) as a proper Kantian, acting according to their sense of what's right regardless of personal gratification.
Loved your previous essay to the end, btw. Come back to the only true fandom!

[elizabeth_hoot]

Yup, 'more ruthless' is pretty much what I was thinking.

That's very much my idea of both Denethor and Faramir--the sternness of purpose they both have.

Thank you very much--I hoped you would! And I kind of have--I've already thought of three more fics, whoops. It started with making a whiny one-off post about movie!Elrond over on Tumblr, and apparently there's an active Silmarillion fandom there, and a few of them came over and started writing long posts in response and we all ended up chattering happily about Tolkien and friending each other and there's also this meta and fic I'm reading. It's really, really nice to be in my first fandom and dust off my Tolkien books and try Sindarin again. :)