Comments | mithen: Yuletide Roundup and Hobbit Squee!

mithen

Yuletide Roundup and Hobbit Squee!

Jan 03, 2013 14:46

--Yuletide this year was a lot of fun! I wrote four stories, some in delightfully tiny fandoms, and ended up very pleased with the results. Three of my stories ended up on rec lists, so I was particularly thrilled with that!

Orual and the Queen (6588 words) by mithen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Till We Have Faces - C.S. LewisRating: General Audiences ( Read more... )

thorin/bilbo, yuletide, fandom: hobbit

Comments 29

queen0fcups January 3 2013, 06:08:58 UTC

DO NOT FIGHT IT. Give in to the Bagginshield. If it gets more than understated, WOOT, I guarantee you it will have an audience. I could rec it to half my dash on tumblr XD

I was prepared for what they did to Thorin by your reaction but it still took me by surprise too until I realized - he's this series' Aragorn. The smoldering rugged guy looking to reclaim his throne is a touchstone for the moviegoing audience.

mithen January 3 2013, 06:28:03 UTC

THE BAGGINSHIELD CANNOT BE DENIED. :D

It's true, he is so very much Aragorn--it's not at all out of character for who he is in the book, I was just startled to have it kind of driven home! In fact, I was startled at how much the structure of the Hobbit matches the beginning of Fellowship--from the Shire to Exposition at Rivendell, then under the mountains to a forest, huh. The characters are different enough that it doesn't feel like a copy, though, and Thorin is quite different from Aragorn in what he does once he gets his throne back (I'm not sure I'm ready for that level of angst, alas!). Bilbo is definitely his own character as well--he has some of Frodo's dreaminess, but a great deal of Sam's pragmatism as well.

queen0fcups January 3 2013, 06:42:40 UTC

Go look at the gif I just reblogged for further Bagginshield feels.

(oh god I will NOT be able to handle Thorin at this trilogy's end, I am not ready to see that, I am NOT.)

mithen January 3 2013, 07:42:59 UTC

I went back and re-read the end after seeing the movie and was A MESS. THORIN WHYYYY. But you know, a lot of my favorite pairings are characters and relationships where there's a terrible tragedy lurking in the past or the future which darkens up every interaction--with Clark and Bruce it's always just a possibility, but otherwise a lot of the pairings I love have moments of terrible grief and disaster in canon (two of my favorites they actually manage to kill each other). The moment when Thorin emerges to fight, and Bilbo thinks "in the gloom the great dwarf gleamed like gold in a dying fire" and I just...ugh. I've already warned damos that we might need to find an isolated corner of the theater if possible so my sobs don't alarm the other moviegoers...

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mithen January 3 2013, 07:36:17 UTC

I still haven't seen the Hobbit. Everyone just went one day and forgot to invite me. I need to get around to it before it leaves theaters XD

I am an unabashed mark for Peter Jackson and Weta, so I was pretty much going to like it no matter what, but there were parts I loved a lot more than I thought I would.

Aw, I'm so glad you liked the Demon Knights stories! Ex and Ystin deserve so many stories written about them, they're both so vivid and fascinating and the culture clash should be epic.

jade_dragoness January 3 2013, 08:21:28 UTC

I totally didn't go into the Hobbit expecting to ship Thorin and Bilbo as hard as I do, although I did expect to find Thorin very attractive considering I've adored the actor since I watched him play Guy of Gisborne (if you want to see Richard Armitage in lots of black leather... guh, google him under Robin Hood).

It was The Hug which got me. I was resisting.. and then... BAM! I couldn't unsee it. I didn't want to unsee it. I just wanted fic.

*cross all the fingers in hope of getting fic from you*

mithen January 3 2013, 08:56:54 UTC

I'm probably going to have to find Robin Hood, lol. I absolutely did not expect Thorin, but somewhere around the flashback to the Moria battle (I'M JUST GONNA STARE BROODINGLY OUT OVER THE PLAINS OKAY) I just fell head over heels in love with the guy. And yet I managed to resist the actual Bilbo/Thorin shipping until that last scene, with Bilbo charging out of the flames to save him and The Hug and auuughhh.

As Bilbo says early on: "Nope." *passes out*

Fic is written and in beta, lol. *facepalm*

sevencorvus January 3 2013, 08:32:55 UTC

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE! Yes, join the Hobbit dark side. "grins" I look forward to seeing whatever fics you come up with. It's great to have another large movie fandom. (now if only the Les Mis movie crowd would give me some more Jean Valjean/Javert fics)

I loved that they cast Martin Freeman (Bilbo is sort of a cousin to Arthur Dent after all). And the dwarves as a whole seemed to have more of a force of personality than in the book.

mithen January 3 2013, 09:05:25 UTC

The Hobbit dark side: it has lembas! :D

Yes, I re-read the book just before seeing the movie in preparation and the dwarves are very different. In the book they're more...bumbly and indistinguishable, they just kind of stumble into things haplessly (like the trolls just grab them all and stuff them into bags with no fight). I think the movie is actually doing a great job of making them memorable--even with 13 characters I came out of the movie able to tell you a little about most of them (Dori is the super-polite one that calls Gandalf "Mr. Gandalf" even when he's about to fall to his death, Dwalin is the big gruff warrior, Ori is the super-young gung-ho one, Gloin looks a little like Gimli, Fili and Kili are--well, you know, the hot ones, and Balin is my favorite because he just loves his Prince and wants him to be happy waaaaaaah *bawls*)

sevencorvus January 3 2013, 18:26:16 UTC

"nods" I was going to reread the book (as it's been several years since I've read it), but decided that I wanted to go into the movie without too many preconceptions. Turned out pretty well....unfortunately I keep seeing mentions in fandom of the end of the book....and I'm like noooooo, Peter Jackson fix it. So, yeah that's not good. :(

"grins" I wonder how many people caught the significance of Gloin's appearance, or the family temperament. ;) I definitely had an easier time figuring out who was who the second time I saw the movie. The first time I was a bit lost in the fact that there are 13 of them.

mithen January 4 2013, 12:15:38 UTC

Turned out pretty well....unfortunately I keep seeing mentions in fandom of the end of the book....and I'm like noooooo, Peter Jackson fix it. So, yeah that's not good. :(

God in heaven, that is going to rip my heart out. Oh Jackson-sama, change the end, please! :D (But I love the angst, I love it!)

I can't wait to see if Gloin gets some good scenes with Thranduil that underline how amazing it is their sons turn out to be BFF...

autumnokami January 3 2013, 14:51:38 UTC

You wrote a Til We Have Faces fic! :D I had read that in high school and I'm all a-squee now because it's so overlooked usually. I agree it was a huge departure from his other works and that's what makes it so fantastic. I will definitely be giving your fic a read! :)

As for the good ship Bagginshield, WHY MUST YOU TORTURE MY FEELINGS PJ?! WHY?! I am not even close to prepared for what he is going to do that.

But yes there needs to be fic! We may as well get it all in before the inevitable tragedy. D:

mithen January 4 2013, 01:58:58 UTC

I had read that in high school and I'm all a-squee now because it's so overlooked usually. I agree it was a huge departure from his other works and that's what makes it so fantastic.

Ahhhhh! I was hoping someone out there liked it! I can usually count on someone from my flist coming through for me. :)

But yes there needs to be fic! We may as well get it all in before the inevitable tragedy. D:

But...but...it's the tragedy that makes me love it! >_< My horrible confession is that, Clark/Bruce aside, I'm a terrible angst addict in pairings, lol, and this one hits all my buttons REALLY HARD. Yum...

autumnokami January 4 2013, 17:19:45 UTC

I'm not an angst person, but I love the pairing for the cuddles and tenderness. And normally that's not my thing! But they just seem like they'd be so sweet and gentle and asdsjkgsdkjfha I can't take it!

Thorin is so incredibly captivating! I was telling Rachel that it's damn near impossible to get him off my mind. That speaks volumes for how well they wrote him in the film because he is so commanding and kingly but there is that wounded warrior tenderness in there too.

...Wow I didn't expect to expound so many feels this early in the morning. O.O

mithen January 5 2013, 07:43:24 UTC

You are allowed and in fact strongly encouraged to expound on all feels when they involve Thorin Oakenshield. :D My reaction to him is freaking OFF THE SCALE, somehow. It's been a week since my last viewing of the movie and I was like "Okay, maybe this is dying down a little," and then I saw three seconds of Thorin in a promotional vid and was head over heels captivated again. "YELL AT GANDALF THAT NO ONE KNEW YOU WERE COMING HERE, THORIN! YELL AT HIM THAT YOU TOLD NO ONE AGAIN." *dreamy sigh*

Yes, Jackson and Armitage really have made him a powerful presence, and you really get the sense that he's a worthy heir to the throne, not just the rather grasping selfish guy he tended to be in the books.