Drabble: To Do No Harm (Star Trek/LOTR)

[caffienekitty]

Title: To Do No Harm
Crossover: Star Trek/Lord of the Rings, kind of.
Rating: GEN, G
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: Don't own any of it.
A/N: GNH!! Okay, one Trek-related drabble. Because the crossover hit me in the middle of a typical day in Hell yesterday and I had to follow it. It's not even a funny drabble. I suck. [LJ-only]

Comments

[caffienekitty]

ooooo.....tingly :D

Yay, an ooo! I was hoping to get an Ooo and I'm glad it was from you :-)

watch it again and do more!!!! :D

Gonna have to wait a long while, I think. :-/

[aescu]

Elves do have red blood. I'm not 100% sure if it's mentioned in the Lord of the Rings or the Simarillion, but it is definitely red.

[caffienekitty]

I thought so, but I couldn't find a single reference to it online, and the only thing about elf blood I found at all was talking about elves in mythology having green blood because as Fae creatures iron was poisonous to them. No reference to Tolkien elf blood at all. It was very frustrating.

[sadelyrate]

I'd go out on a limb and say that since elves breathe (without difficulty) the same air as humans, their blood would be red, too. At least I think the colour of blood is directly affected by what the body accepts as vital to survival and functioning, and oxygen colours hemoglobin red. But there are other oxygen-carriers, and not all of them appear even distantly red(dish) when oxygenated... Hmm.

Don't quote me on that. Had a long day. Can't brain/remember.

Oh, and the ficlet?
*love*
Karl Urban's McCoy was one of the parts of the Star Trek-flick I did enjoy. :)

[aescu]

Actually it's not the oxygen but the iron in our blood giving it the red color. That's the reason Vulcans have green blood - at least the reason given in TOS.

[caffienekitty]

Yes. Vulcan blood is copper-based. :-)

[caffienekitty]

Vulcan blood is supposed to be copper-based, which is why it's green; that's the color of copper-rust. I was pretty sure elves were red, but I couldn't find backup references so I went with the blond thing instead. Plus, Middle Earth's a realm of magic, so oxygen transport systems could be anything, really. :-D

Karl Urban's McCoy was one of the parts of the Star Trek-flick I did enjoy. :)

He really got the character. :-)

[anniehow]

MF WIN crossover! Karl is rather... yeah... *fans self*

[caffienekitty]

Thank you!

[caffienekitty]

Given how much bigger he is than DeForest Kelley, I'm surprised he fit so well, but I should know better than to assume things based on appearances.