"Hastaina" for pandemonium_213

[dawn_felagund]

Pandemonium is to credit (or maybe to blame? ;) for initiating my interest in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, as well as first suggesting that the mythologies of Tolkien and Lovecraft could be combined quite intriguingly. When I finished a collection of Lovecraft stories over my winter holidays, I was immediately inspired to try blending the two

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[dawn_felagund]

Thank you, Roisin! I'll never turn down that sort of incoherence! :D Being as it is not my usual style (though never that much of a stretch to write a bit more floridly ;) I wasn't sure how it would come off. I'm so glad it worked for you!

[ithilwen]

Wonderful, just wonderful! I'll leave a more sensible (and less squee-filled) review over at SWG soon!

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks so much, Ithilwen, for the reviews and the squees! :D I wasn't sure how this story was going to be received (being as I've never written a crossover and the style is certainly not mine), but I'm excited that you and others have liked it so much!

[ithilwen]

I always knew Manwe was the tentacled sort... Seriously, one of the things that's always bothered me about the Silm is that, after hearing how Morgoth and his followers have so badly marred the Music, the supposedly-loving Eru doesn't just have everyone start over again from the top - no, He sings it into being anyway, knowing that's it's flawed. Since when is deliberately creating pain a good thing? Of course, a world with no pain and no conflicts wouldn't be a world we could write fiction about, but it's hard to justify the deliberate creation of a fundamentally flawed world just because Eru (and us, the readers) think the result is "prettier" than the unmarred version would have been.