Things I've Learned from Reading Elfslash

[pen_and_umbra]

To elanor_isolda's eternal mild misery, I've been preoccupied with LotR elfslash (!) for the past few days. And look, themes emerge! I haven't even finished Silmarillion but lookit all the stuff I've learned:

• Elves are really, really gay. All of them. The girls, too. Also, happily incestuous (Arwen, stop fondling your grandmother's homg perky boobs!).
  
  

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[pen_and_umbra]

Extremely hawt though I've been lured into Elrond/Legolas, too, gnash. And I promise the only Gildy/Gilly in my world is Gilderoy. ;)

[ter369]

Gandalf's real role in Middle-earth is to play pimp for shy elves. Ditto for Galadriel, the conniving h0r.

Ooooooh.

So that's where fanfic!Dumbledore learned his slashmatchmaking ways.

Thrawn? *intrigued* Recs!! Sherlock Holmes!!!

You are awesome for studying statistical analysis, for I am challenged to balance my checkbook(which I cheat at by writing fewer checks).

[pen_and_umbra]

Oh, yes -- Dumbledore totally learned his ways in Gandalf's School of Big Pimpin'.

And Thrawn omg. I've been hard-pressed not to read through all of Zahn's other Thrawn books (must read statistical analysis! *irons hands*), because that man is the coolest of the cool.

[ter369]

Aha! I see Zahn on book spines and hear his name at SF Cons. So now I'll ask you what to read first.

[pen_and_umbra]

The must-read thing is Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy (I guess that's what it's called): Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. Set five years after RotJ, they introduce Grand Admiral Thrawn and a host of other fab characters... I don't think any of the other EU novels are mandatory reading before them. Just a warning: once you start, you can't put the damn books down.

There are other Zahn SW books, but I haven't read them (they're in the Read-Next pile on the windowsill, though). The abovementioned three I keep re-reading every couple of years.

[hilarita]

Have you ever come across Elladan/Elrohir slash? Incest is the new black in Middle Earth!

Um. Where did you find this stuff?

[pen_and_umbra]

There appears to be oodles of Elladan/Elrohir. Often with Elrond thrown in, too. One big happy gay Half-elven family, ayup. As for where I find this stuff, it's all about surfing through Library of Moria without reading warnings. ;)

[hilarita]

Ack! I'm not surprised. I used to quite like 'Least Expected' as an archive, but it doesn't appear to be up any more.

[pen_and_umbra]

*googles* Down, it is. Drattage.

[lynkemma]

If you haven't read the Very Secret Diaries, please do, they're brilliant. here: http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/

But presumably you've read them since everybody has.

[pen_and_umbra]

The very first Tolkien fic I ever read! And they are tres funny indeed. ;) All cheap plastic imitations that came afterwards fail to live up to the original. *nods*

[hilarita]

Likewise. In fact, I think this was the first fanfic I ever read, which started the rot.

[furiosity]

homg, I am ded from laff. Celebrían Schmelebrian. *dies*

*is too busy saying "Thank you so much for the rec!" to smite you*

♥

[pen_and_umbra]

A sizeable proportion of LotR fanfic is unintentionally hilarious. I mean, can you imagine Celeborn saying "okay", or Thranduil arranging for orcs to attack Celebrían because he has the hots for her hubby? It's "As the Middle-earth Turns"!

♥! (Oh, and remember that "pair your icons" meme? One of my pairings was, thanks to this icon, imadra_blue/furiosity/pen_and_umbra"/Linda Evangelista. XD)

[pen_and_umbra]

And of course, "Bad username in LJ tag" is me. Sigh. I fail at LJ-code.

[furiosity]

OMGHAHAHA "As the Middle-earth turns"? Oh, that begs for crackfic. *dedsoded*

♥!!! That is so the OT4 of today *ships*