Oubliette by Dwimordene

[dwimordene_2011]

Title: Oubliette
Author: Dwimordene
Challenge: Writing: Note
Summary: Turn the page…
Characters/Pairing: Faramir, Éowyn
Rating: K
Book/Source: LOTR
Disclaimer: I'm neither JRRT nor making money off this.

Comments

[dwimordene_2011]

It seems natural that Éowyn, growing up in an oral-storytelling tradition, would associate the necessity of recorded history with forgetting

Have you ever watched Ghost in the Shell (the Mamoru Oshii set, not the tv series)? There, it's made very explicit that books, computer files - they're all "external memory" for humanity. Which means they really are about personally forgetting - we say we write things down to remember them, but what that works out to is an expectation to forget most things. Writing implies forgetting.

I think Éowyn, coming from an oral culture, is simply in a better position to recognize that point - why would you write something down for reasons other than the prestige of the book or its beauty? Why so many books, unless you've really forgotten most things?

A nice shift to something more intimate, after the impressive larger scale of your Disaster drabbles.

I think memory is going to be my way into this series of prompts, and memory - even external memory - is fairly intimate, so I imagine this whole series will feel a lot more personal.

Thanks for commenting!