Basically, it's a compressed, talky version of the stuff that I was thinking through with my Lothíriel fic all those years ago. This isn't that, I just got to thinking about it when I came across a random reference, and considering where my Lothíriel might have gotten all those seditious ideas from. :)

title: princes of the city
fanverse: canon, more ( Read more... )

 Hey, everyone. I've kind of fallen back into Tolkien fandom (!) on Tumblr, which is making me ridiculously happy--I'm trying to kind of maintain a, idk, presence in all my fandoms rather than swerving from one to the other as I've always done, so that I don't completely drift away AND I manage to have a life and all, but still. It's been really ( Read more... )

I have just finished my last class of the term, which I may or may not pass (statistics, eurgh), and I decided to celebrate my vacation by dredging up what I could from the Wayback Machine's copies of Emyn Arnen -- a Tolkien (specifically, Faramir/Éowyn) site I talked about here.  In particular, the old Purist Rantings threads.

A number of highly ( Read more... )

You might notice a certain ... er, emphasis in the details of the Middle-earth that exists in my head.

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Aragorn is clearly the Chosen King in LOTR, above and beyond the thorny questions of succession. My opinion has always been that Faramir recognises him on sight as The King, but not as Aragorn son of Arathorn of the line of Isildur. He was decidedly sceptical about Aragorn, he immediately loves and accepts The King. I assume that when he does ( Read more... )

This is old stuff to any of my friends and cohorts at Emyn Arnen and/or Brothers of Gondor.

To begin with a little anecdote.  I took a "Lord of the Rings" class at my community college this summer.  (I got an A.  I made sure I got one, just because it would be so shameful not to.)  Anyway, I was helping out a girl who was struggling, and we had a ( Read more... )