Things I've Learned from Reading Elfslash

[pen_and_umbra]

To elanor_isolda's eternal mild misery, I've been preoccupied with LotR elfslash (!) for the past few days. And look, themes emerge! I haven't even finished Silmarillion but lookit all the stuff I've learned:

• Elves are really, really gay. All of them. The girls, too. Also, happily incestuous (Arwen, stop fondling your grandmother's homg perky boobs!).
  
  

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[ter369]

Gandalf's real role in Middle-earth is to play pimp for shy elves. Ditto for Galadriel, the conniving h0r.

Ooooooh.

So that's where fanfic!Dumbledore learned his slashmatchmaking ways.

Thrawn? *intrigued* Recs!! Sherlock Holmes!!!

You are awesome for studying statistical analysis, for I am challenged to balance my checkbook(which I cheat at by writing fewer checks).

[pen_and_umbra]

Oh, yes -- Dumbledore totally learned his ways in Gandalf's School of Big Pimpin'.

And Thrawn omg. I've been hard-pressed not to read through all of Zahn's other Thrawn books (must read statistical analysis! *irons hands*), because that man is the coolest of the cool.

[ter369]

Aha! I see Zahn on book spines and hear his name at SF Cons. So now I'll ask you what to read first.

[pen_and_umbra]

The must-read thing is Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy (I guess that's what it's called): Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. Set five years after RotJ, they introduce Grand Admiral Thrawn and a host of other fab characters... I don't think any of the other EU novels are mandatory reading before them. Just a warning: once you start, you can't put the damn books down.

There are other Zahn SW books, but I haven't read them (they're in the Read-Next pile on the windowsill, though). The abovementioned three I keep re-reading every couple of years.

[ter369]

Thanks! Now that you put titles in context, I recall Aaron Allston and Barbara Hambley talking about Zahn on a panel about writing series.

If it's Star Wars universe, I have a chance of following what's going on!