Crossover Fic: Les Morts Dansant (LotR/Forgotten Realms) Part 2

[speakr2customrs]

Here is Part Two of my ‘Lord of the Rings’/’Forgotten Realms’ crossover ‘Les Morts Dansant. The first part was a mighty 12,200 words but this is a more modest 4,300 words. PG. Part One is HERECrossover between ‘The Lord of the Rings’ (Book-verse) and the ‘Forgotten Realms’ stories set in the ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ game-world of Faerûn - the

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[curiouswombat]

Meep!

[thirdgorchbro]

Very interesting story. I don't know too much about the Forgotten Realms (stopped reading after the first couple of Drizz't books) but I am much more familiar with Middle-Earth and I am looking forward to seeing how the Drow fit in.

[speakr2customrs]

Thank you! It's a long time - nearly a year - since I've heard from you. Welcome back.

[magnuskn]

Thank you for the second chapter. :) The story continues to be good and it is very nice to read a well-written crossover between two universes I am very familiar with.

I think Lothíriels fate will depend very much on the question if the Drow still got some healing mojo, after Elistrae died.

Hm, I just noticed that Lothíriels name itself should maybe have caused interesting reactions from the drow. You know, Loth-íriel. ^^

Magnus

[speakr2customrs]

Thank you!

Lothíriel doesn't sound anything like Lolth. The spelling Lloth, although stated in the various Wikis to be a Drow dialect spelling, really is nothing more than a spelling mistake made by R A Salvatore that didn't get picked up in editing. The 'variant spelling' claim is just an excuse to save Salvatore's face.

[speakr2customrs]

Thank you!

[mimi_sardinia]

Interesting story so far! I got it recommended to me in a thread on the Attic about some of the weird crap that has been done in 4E.

I admit, I was very unhappy to find out that practically the whole Drow pantheon had been killed off, particularly the gods who dislike Lolth, and also the one Good option out of the lot. It was that in particular that prompted the recommendation of this story.

I was also kinda sad in the first chapter about the mention of Viconia's death, but given she can be turned good in the course of Throne of Bhaal, it's pretty easy to imagine she'd lose favour with Shar as well. (I mostly came to FR through playing the Baldur's Gate games.)

[speakr2customrs]

Thank you!

Viconia being killed after Shar withdraws her protection is one of the canon Good endings in BG2:ToB.

Actually I'm primarily a Baldur's Gate author; I've written 600,000 words of a series (Tabula Avatar) that starts off with the insertion of Buffy the Vampire Slayer into BG2:SoA and then takes the story forward through BG2, Neverwinter Nights, and Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir with everything changed because of Buffy's presence. And, with Eilistraee becoming Shar's best friend and sister-in-law, the 4th Edition changes never happen (although plenty of other bad things happen instead).

[mimi_sardinia]

Yeah, I vaguely recall that at least one of Vic's endings turned out like that. I've never played through with Vic in the party to the end of ToB - I tend to favour Anomen as my party cleric (more because of the romance than stats - I also cheat like all hell with ShadowKeeper).

I am probably going to go read that story (Tabula Avatar) now. Sounds like fun!