I said yesterday that I had been writing something that was out of my usual comfort zone - it simply came to me and forced me to write it down
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Ooh - thank you for long critique! It is surprising what a throw away line can trigger - this really came to me fully formed and just needed fleshing out a little.
I'm not sure, even with her 'two husbands', that I envy Éowyn here - realising it is her duty to provide heirs and her only chances are going to be to on the rare occasions that her cousin visits!
I thought of it as a rather dark piece because no-one is really getting a 'happy ever after' - apart, possibly, for Théodred, who does not have to couple with a female when Boromir is not there, and has a better excuse to visit Gondor, or have Boromir visit Rohan, than he had before...
I began to think of him as the dominant one of the three - but that Éowyn would occasionally put her foot down. (“Goodnight, Théodred,” she said, adding firmly “My husband and I will return to our own beds now, and… thank you.”)
I felt sorry for Éowyn as I wrote much of it; marrying to escape from someone who already makes her flesh creep, losing her virginity when her husband damn near rapes her, stuck somewhere that she is not really at home. Not to mention the worry of knowing you've possibly put an end to the line of the Stewards, and replaced them with the Rohirrim, over the course of a couple of weeks...
The thing about carrying on after is that the obvious thing to happen is that Boromir is killed on the quest (and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli have to tell his widow that when they get to Edoras), and Théodred dies at the Fords of Isen. But I am coming to like these two warriors - I want them to make different decisions, perhaps because the child exists, and survive. Except that that's unfair on Éomer and Faramir... and I like both of them...
For now, I have a piece in the Returnverse to write for the 'Plot without Porn' group in August (featuring fifty year old Éowyn, feeling her age a little, and a family of elves), and I did say I would do some stories about Firiel and Eldarion ('A is for Apple' etc.).
But as this take on Théodred/Boromir/Éowyn seems to work for others as well as me, I might be persuaded back eventually!
And your pretty icon is definitely how I imagine Theodred...
her only chances are going to be to on the rare occasions that her cousin visits!
For really? I'm thinking that, once she figured out about the sweat and leather and all (especially that leather glove) they'd be in good shape. Ummm, leather.
I really think her pragmatism (or maybe I'm just imagining her pragmatism) would have helped her carry through - she would have always know that she was destined for some type of alliance advantageous to Rohan. She may have fantasized romance but been ready to accept whatever was set forth for her. Falling in love with Faramir would be a very nice fate for her, when and if you or whoever takes up this tale! And you know I'll be ready to read it and love it whenever, if ever, you get around to writing it.
(Here's another Theodred; I love that his lips are just a little too full, and his ears are just a little too big - makes him look more "real", I think!)
My Éowyn is certainly pragmatic - hence the line about a husband you don't love who won't want a lot of sex is better than one you don't love who wants it often!
I'm thinking that, once she figured out about the sweat and leather and all (especially that leather glove) they'd be in good shape. Ummm, leather.
She has certainly got that idea in mind - and it is certainly why Théodred suggested it... and in part where the title of the story came from as it contains the lines
(A friend with breasts and all the rest, A friend who's dressed in leather,)
But she can't be sure he'll want to... especially after she's given birth - it might make her too feminine for him to forget it!
Actually the song is very relevant in a number of places - it also contains the lines A friend who'll tease is better , and
And when she's pressed she will undress, And then she's boxing clever,
As well as
A friend in needs a friend indeed, A friend who bleeds is better,
What a wonderful Beta to remember the song, eh?
Talking of my wonderful beta - we have just spent a good long while discussing how the relationship between these three, and the existence of a child, might effect the decisions of all three - how the outcomes could be very different, how Théodred and Boromir might survive... why Éowyn might ride with the Rohirrim anyway, or someone else kill the Witch King... (kicking him in the head would be a good start - it's only the 'hand of man' he's immune to...)
I could certainly be tempted...
Course if she then falls for Faramir it'll be a bit of a bugger... (as the heir to the Steward said to the heir of Rohan...)
ETA - and guess what's on TV here tonight? The Fellowship of the Ring.
kicking him in the head would be a good start - it's only the 'hand of man' he's immune to...
Have you ever read the story "No Living Man" You must go read it; it's hysterical...
For her to ride off and kill the Witch King, I think the baby would have had to have died, giving her that same sense of desperation and nothing-to-lose-ness she had with Aragorn. Then she can fall in love with Faramir, introduce him to the pleasures of her leather glove and live pretty much happily ever after.
Hee - I hadn't seen it before, but S2c and I have just had a good giggle at it. He suggested that, whilst they all discussed it, a dying mumakil fell on him...
There are at least two possible threads this could follow - forking further on to give even more - hence the current decision to leave it to your imagination... I can see a reason for her riding with the Rohirrim and leaving her son behind - but then he might die...
I'm not sure, even with her 'two husbands', that I envy Éowyn here - realising it is her duty to provide heirs and her only chances are going to be to on the rare occasions that her cousin visits!
I thought of it as a rather dark piece because no-one is really getting a 'happy ever after' - apart, possibly, for Théodred, who does not have to couple with a female when Boromir is not there, and has a better excuse to visit Gondor, or have Boromir visit Rohan, than he had before...
I began to think of him as the dominant one of the three - but that Éowyn would occasionally put her foot down. (“Goodnight, Théodred,” she said, adding firmly “My husband and I will return to our own beds now, and… thank you.”)
I felt sorry for Éowyn as I wrote much of it; marrying to escape from someone who already makes her flesh creep, losing her virginity when her husband damn near rapes her, stuck somewhere that she is not really at home. Not to mention the worry of knowing you've possibly put an end to the line of the Stewards, and replaced them with the Rohirrim, over the course of a couple of weeks...
The thing about carrying on after is that the obvious thing to happen is that Boromir is killed on the quest (and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli have to tell his widow that when they get to Edoras), and Théodred dies at the Fords of Isen. But I am coming to like these two warriors - I want them to make different decisions, perhaps because the child exists, and survive. Except that that's unfair on Éomer and Faramir... and I like both of them...
For now, I have a piece in the Returnverse to write for the 'Plot without Porn' group in August (featuring fifty year old Éowyn, feeling her age a little, and a family of elves), and I did say I would do some stories about Firiel and Eldarion ('A is for Apple' etc.).
But as this take on Théodred/Boromir/Éowyn seems to work for others as well as me, I might be persuaded back eventually!
And your pretty icon is definitely how I imagine Theodred...
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For really? I'm thinking that, once she figured out about the sweat and leather and all (especially that leather glove) they'd be in good shape. Ummm, leather.
I really think her pragmatism (or maybe I'm just imagining her pragmatism) would have helped her carry through - she would have always know that she was destined for some type of alliance advantageous to Rohan. She may have fantasized romance but been ready to accept whatever was set forth for her. Falling in love with Faramir would be a very nice fate for her, when and if you or whoever takes up this tale! And you know I'll be ready to read it and love it whenever, if ever, you get around to writing it.
(Here's another Theodred; I love that his lips are just a little too full, and his ears are just a little too big - makes him look more "real", I think!)
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I'm thinking that, once she figured out about the sweat and leather and all (especially that leather glove) they'd be in good shape. Ummm, leather.
She has certainly got that idea in mind - and it is certainly why Théodred suggested it... and in part where the title of the story came from as it contains the lines
(A friend with breasts and all the rest,
A friend who's dressed in leather,)
But she can't be sure he'll want to... especially after she's given birth - it might make her too feminine for him to forget it!
Actually the song is very relevant in a number of places - it also contains the lines A friend who'll tease is better , and
And when she's pressed she will undress,
And then she's boxing clever,
As well as
A friend in needs a friend indeed,
A friend who bleeds is better,
What a wonderful Beta to remember the song, eh?
Talking of my wonderful beta - we have just spent a good long while discussing how the relationship between these three, and the existence of a child, might effect the decisions of all three - how the outcomes could be very different, how Théodred and Boromir might survive... why Éowyn might ride with the Rohirrim anyway, or someone else kill the Witch King... (kicking him in the head would be a good start - it's only the 'hand of man' he's immune to...)
I could certainly be tempted...
Course if she then falls for Faramir it'll be a bit of a bugger... (as the heir to the Steward said to the heir of Rohan...)
ETA - and guess what's on TV here tonight? The Fellowship of the Ring.
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Have you ever read the story "No Living Man" You must go read it; it's hysterical...
For her to ride off and kill the Witch King, I think the baby would have had to have died, giving her that same sense of desperation and nothing-to-lose-ness she had with Aragorn. Then she can fall in love with Faramir, introduce him to the pleasures of her leather glove and live pretty much happily ever after.
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There are at least two possible threads this could follow - forking further on to give even more - hence the current decision to leave it to your imagination... I can see a reason for her riding with the Rohirrim and leaving her son behind - but then he might die...
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