The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (5/5): Fishermouse

[clodia_metelli]

Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (5/5): Fishermouse
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Lindir, Glorfindel, Arwen, Elrond; in previous chapters: Celebrían, OC, Galadriel, Celeborn.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make

Comments

[clodia_metelli]

//I can't believe I've come to the end of this;//

I am so glad you did. <3

It was meant to come as a shock, of course, but it was also the first Tolkien fic that I ever thought about writing, so everything else leads here one way or another. (Even the crackish 'Tales of Older Days' is vaguely relevant, though in a through-a-mirror-darkly sort of way that relies on me writing some more of it one of these days.) By the time I'd written everything else, I was pretty reluctant to actually write this fic. I wanted to have the end of the overarching story arc as well as the beginning, though, and I'd had the start of the story gathering dust on my hard-drive for several years, so eventually I sat down and hammered the rest of it out.

Both of your points are very reassuring. It's kind of hard to create a sense of structure in a fic like this - a plot, I suppose, when that plot is really just the initial reaction to and slow coming to terms with some very bad news. I hoped opening and closing on Erestor's whimsy would provide structure and closure, as well as fitting in with the larger theme of E&M's literary exploits.

Thank you so much for all your comments, anyway! They were wonderful to read.

[someplacetobe]

I hoped opening and closing on Erestor's whimsy would provide structure and closure, as well as fitting in with the larger theme of E&M's literary exploits.
You did and it was done brilliantly; it was a very good way to tie this story together --- it very much kept it from flying apart at the seams.

I was pretty reluctant to actually write this fic
I'm quite glad you did write it. It would have been, I feel, so much more tempting to leave it open, to not have Melinna die but to bring it an end, and such a fitting end for this arc, was so very brave (you'd gotten to know these characters after all!) and it was a good way to end the cycle.

Thank you so much for all your comments, anyway!
You're very welcome and I'm so glad they were! I must confess, there's probably a few more coming; I've been poking around here some more!