Fic: Come True (The Starflower and Evermind Remix) [Lord of the Rings: Elanor/Éowyn; PG]

[gratefulundead]

Title: Come True (The Star-Flower and Evermind Remix)
Author: vulgarweed
Beta: celandineb
Summary: Across a crowded room, they know the old stories again through each others' eyes.
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (bookverse)
Pairing: Elanor Gardner/Éowyn of Rohan
Disclaimer: It was J.R.R. Tolkien who passed the stories down to us first.
Original story: Come True by hyel

Comments

[ilthit]

This was so much better than my original.

Two fics! Two! Oh, glee.

I love Samwise to bits, and that early bit about him not keeping to his place already made me melt. And this is beautiful and just right, and I love how real you managed to make Éowyn's world - part of why I write about hobbits myself is because it's hard to get a grasp on great lives in great halls, to describe them so they feel like places, as you did. This is just wonderful. Thank you!

[vulgarweed]

Aw, c'mon. None of that.

Your stories tend to run short, and they're like potato chips - I couldn't take just one! I wish I'd been able to find more of a place for Sam in this story, but I figured Elanor would go to her "uncles" to learn about things her father might not want to talk about. Getting the truth out of his war buddies. I know what you mean about the "great lives in great halls" - it's why I'm never at ease the few times I've tried to write Elves or Gondorians. But the Rohirrim are kind of in-between to me...certainly a heroic culture, but also very human to me, especially Éowyn, who I think is one of Tolkien's most multi-dimensional and rounded non-hobbit characters. So it was a delight to get to write her again. (I also have a story from way back about something that happened between Merry and the boy he thought Éowyn was, so that was in the back of my mind as some of the subtext in his part...)

[ilthit]

Well, it was.

<3 Sam, but you do sort of associate Merry and Pip more with heroic tales - and especially Merry with Eowyn. They were there for the big battles, Sam was just there alone with Frodo, feeling small and making history. He would have had stories about the before and after, but considering what it was like for him in Mordor, it would be no wonder if he wasn't inclined to talk about it.

I see what you mean about the Rohirrim. I've always found Éowyn a hell of a lot easier to write than Arwen, at any rate.

If you wrote that fic about Denethor, it would be wonderful if it could fit in with this one, at least partly. I love it when a ficverse flows together (not that mine ever does). ...You know, I have read Merry/Éowyn-Denethor fic! Though he knew she was a gel, all right. It was by Singe and perfectly marvellous. I aped some of it in my own 'The Way Home'. I think it's a pairing just ripe with possibilities.

[baranduin]

This is wonderful!

Later that night, small and gentle in Éowyn’s arms like a pet or a doll, but far more keen and wise, Elanor tells tales of the Fell Winter in the Shire.

I love this line so much. Your turn the "tiny hobbit" syndrome on its head here. It works perfectly.

[vulgarweed]

Wow,thank you so much! (I'm not crazy about "tiny hobbit" syndrome...but it beats "childlike hobbit" syndrome which I hate with a burning passion. Innocent, maybe. Infantile, never.)

Also, I would not be surprised to learn that in addition to her work on the Red Book, Elanor was also the editor of a compilation of creepy campfire stories of the Shire.

[baranduin]

Speaking for myself, I'd have to say that "tiny hobbit" syndrome is actually a component of "childlike hobbit" syndrome. At least in my reading experience, LOL!

Elanor knows where all the bodies are buried ...