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It was getting weird
Sep. 19th, 2013 11:29 amNot posting my Amarie story, I mean, since I had finished it weeks ago. So, here you go: Many Happy Returns (The secondary title is due to my beta, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eveiya). Summary:
The Silmarillion is so full of heartbreaking, wasteful, tragic deaths that it sometimes seems as if the not-tragically-deadly parts of the narrative are there only to give the readers a little breather.
I expect that everyone has a death or two that they find particularly distressing. Amarië certainly does. But at least she can do something about it...
(Un)Interesting facts about the story:
1. It was definitely written as a reaction to the tragic, distressing parts of the Silm. And by "reaction" I mean "antidote".
2. It passes the Bechdel test only in VERY incidental ways (in the overheard discussions of minor characters.) However, I cannot imagine anyone claiming that it marginalizes Tolkien's female characters.
3. I stared it in 2005. When I faded out of the fandom, it was half written. I would occasionally poke at it. There are occasional (buried) references to whatever other fic I was writing at the same time. And now it is finished -- I still cannot believe it!
4. I am very, very amused by it myself. It contains some of my favourite characters, doing particularly characteristic things. And the antidote aspect of it really seems to work.
eveiya). Summary:The Silmarillion is so full of heartbreaking, wasteful, tragic deaths that it sometimes seems as if the not-tragically-deadly parts of the narrative are there only to give the readers a little breather.
I expect that everyone has a death or two that they find particularly distressing. Amarië certainly does. But at least she can do something about it...
(Un)Interesting facts about the story:
1. It was definitely written as a reaction to the tragic, distressing parts of the Silm. And by "reaction" I mean "antidote".
2. It passes the Bechdel test only in VERY incidental ways (in the overheard discussions of minor characters.) However, I cannot imagine anyone claiming that it marginalizes Tolkien's female characters.
3. I stared it in 2005. When I faded out of the fandom, it was half written. I would occasionally poke at it. There are occasional (buried) references to whatever other fic I was writing at the same time. And now it is finished -- I still cannot believe it!
4. I am very, very amused by it myself. It contains some of my favourite characters, doing particularly characteristic things. And the antidote aspect of it really seems to work.
