Comments | teasel: Fic reposting: Not Die Alone 1

teasel

Fic reposting: Not Die Alone 1 - Blade of Westernesse

Aug 10, 2004 18:02

Author's Note: Nothing really new here yet. This is the first chapter of a projected series; I originally posted it on ff.net well over a year ago, before I had an LJ. I'm reposting this now because Merry would not let me be; chapter two (brand-new!) is going up tomorrow, and, erm, there is absolutely no way in hell it will be understandable ( Read more... )

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shirebound August 10 2004, 16:26:13 UTC

Fascinating, Teasel! I've been working on my own Barrow-wights story off and on, and it's a part of the Tale that definitely cries out for more explanation of the odd events that Tolkien described. (Mine will focus on what happened to Frodo, and why.)

You're crafting a wonderful story here! Your connections between past and present are excellent.

:)

teasel August 11 2004, 07:27:58 UTC

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! I'm kind of obsessed with that weird dark period in early third age history, and this fic is kind of my attempt to show how it might have affected hobbits who hardly knew a thing about it. Thanks for putting up with a somewhat geeky read.

Ooooh, more Barrow-wights! Fabulous. My Barrow-wight only has a cameo in chapter one and then vanishes forever; after that, the fic is about the poor dude who was buried in that tomb -- just as much a victim of the actual Barrow-wight as the poor hobbits were -- and his relationship to Merry. Can't wait to see what you do with Frodo! My fic is so Merry-centric that I will hardly be getting to Frodo at all, but that experience in the Barrow has to have been formative for Frodo, since it was the first time he really acted on his own and discovered how courageous he could be when his friends were threatened.

shirebound August 11 2004, 07:39:12 UTC

that experience in the Barrow has to have been formative for Frodo, since it was the first time he really acted on his own and discovered how courageous he could be when his friends were threatened.

That's exactly what I hope to explore; as well as the motivations of the wights themselves.

I printed out your chapter 2 and will read it tonight. Can't wait!

celtic4 August 10 2004, 16:27:49 UTC

I enjoyed that very much! Can't wait for Part Two! ^_^

teasel August 11 2004, 07:29:17 UTC

Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

strangerian August 10 2004, 16:31:34 UTC

This looks like good fun, not to mention LotR Historick writing. Hope to see more of it soon.

teasel August 11 2004, 07:30:21 UTC

Hee, yes, Historick LotR is a geeky little obsession of mine. If by "soon" you mean "today," then surprise! Today is your lucky day, because part II is now up in all its nerdy glory.

rabidsamfan August 10 2004, 16:44:44 UTC

I'm glad you've decided to continue this. It's a fascinating beginning. Thank you!

teasel August 11 2004, 07:31:45 UTC

Thanks! Merry has been whining in the back of my mind for quite some time, insisting that I get back to him. I finally caved. :)

rubynye August 10 2004, 16:58:29 UTC

I haven't read this yet. I have only read the introduction.

When I was a little girl who wanted to be blond my favorite part of the first book was Bombadil's house and the Barrow-wight sequence.

Slash and het folk: Sorry, it won't get explicit. Non-slash and non-het folk: It won't get explicit, but all of these relationships will be central to the plot. Gen this ain't...

Does it help if I say "yay!"? One might not know it to look at my body of work, but I really love stories where relationships are organic to the plot without actual sex scenes (greatly fond as I am of sex scenes).

I haven't read this yet, but it's about a part of Middle-Earth history that always intrigued me, and you wrote it, so I know I'm going to enjoy it. So I thought I'd say this all first before the story pushed it out of my head. ;)

teasel August 11 2004, 07:38:07 UTC

I've always loved the Barrow-wights too, even though I reluctantly agree with Peter Jackson's decision to cut them from the movie. Mayb in terms of plot the scene is expendable, relatively speaking, but: it is utterly haunting and shows what Tolkien could do in the way of pure horror (that is, quite a lot. It also points toward the vast little-known history of the region where the hobbits actually live, which is kinda cool. The hobbits were not the only ones to have reason to fear Sauron, and what I'm going to do in this fic is show a rather weird alliance between two people, a hobbit and a man, who have more in common than they might suppose ( ... )