Petrology Challenge; Marble. The Song.

[curiouswombat]

Title: The Song
Challenge; Marble
Author: Curiouswombat
Characters: Fellowship.
Rating: G
Source: LotR

Disclaimer: The characters in this story do not belong to me, but are being used for amusement only, and all rights remain with the estate of JRR Tolkien.

Comments

[shirebound]

I suspect young hots saw and learned a great deal during their stay in Rivendell. :)

[curiouswombat]

I'm sure you are right - but Gimli would worry about them anyway!

[shirebound]

Goodness, I meant to type 'hobbits', of course.

[curiouswombat]

I know - I read what you meant...

[elenbarathi]

Yay, lascivious Elven statuary! Hey, but as cute as the young hobbits are, and as lusty as the girls of the Shire are, they've probably seen as much already - and very likely think the Elves are too skinny to be sexy anyhow.

[curiouswombat]

they've probably seen as much already

Absolutely. I think it is more Gimli's own sense of modesty and 'correctness' that is the problem, rather than the innocence of hobbits.

Although I think you are quite right - the hobbits would probably not think of scantily clad elves as all that exciting, anyway.

[elenbarathi]

Sorry for deleted post; I forgot that posts with links get marked as spam. I said:

Dwarven lads don't grow up with a passle of sisters and female cousins, the way hobbit boys do - what with the dwarven women being so rare, probably nobody ever sees them undressed but their mothers and their husbands.

"Diamond of Long Cleve, now there's a proper lass, sweet and juicy as a sun-ripe pear - none of your pale, cold sticks of marble."

[curiouswombat]

Yes - dwarven lasses are a mystery to all - including the lads...

Due to the vagaries of LJ I got the original comment e-mailed to me - and yes she is certainly sweet and juicy and not at all a cold stick of marble.

[lindahoyland]

A great use of the aria and so very Boromir and Gondor.

[curiouswombat]

Thank you. The prompt brought it to mind and I couldn't get past it - so it took me a while to work out just how to use it until it struck me how very Boromir the words were, but also how to involve the others.

[jay_of_lasgalen]

Oh, that's great. I can picture Boromir in his marble halls, and he was certainly Denethor's hope and pride ;/

I love that Legolas also reflects on his ancestral name - my favourite elf is too often overlooked!

[curiouswombat]

That verse really suits Boromir, doesn't it?

I would never forget our favourite elf - and I think that there are similarities between Boromir and Legolas that so often go un-noticed - including that high ancestral name!

[azalaisdep]

That was all rather melancholy to begin with - I was glad you lightened the tone at the end! (Though I rather agree that the Hobbits would probably be less shocked than Gimli would feel they ought to be ;-) )

[curiouswombat]

You know me - I like to put the odd serious moment here and there. The song was in my brain from almost when I first saw the prompt - but, oddly enough, your post with the statue sort of helped me get it to come together!

[azalaisdep]

Thank goodness poor Gimli didn't have to contend with any marble goats!!

[curiouswombat]

No - certainly something much simpler. I dread to think what he would have made of the goat!