Author: Azalaisdep Title: Deadly Accuracy Characters: Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn Source: LoTR Rating: PG for orc-squishing Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit
I have a feeling there is something slightly movie-verse about the whole scene, given all the shield-surfing and dwarf-tossing and other downright silly stunts that PJ couldn't resist in TTT - but hey, there's black humour at that point in the book too...
I liked the understatement of the description - you could picture it without being overwhelmed by a load of description. It also seemed very in character; that understatement I mentioned earlier extends to dialogue as well. It's just really very well done.
Thank you so much! I've always loved the interplay between the three of them that comes out in the book at Helm's Deep, with that really laconic underplay of the direness of the situation, and all the black humour, so I'm glad if I managed to tap into that a little.
I couldn't resist the last line, even though I have a sneaking suspicion it might be just a tiny bit movie-verse... after all, how else was I going to get the prompt word in? ;-)
I'm glad the sense of chaos and movement comes across, because there weren't many words to do it in. Fortunately, it's a scene that's so fully realised both in the book and in the movie that I suspect most readers don't need a lot of description to get themselves back there.
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I have a feeling there is something slightly movie-verse about the whole scene, given all the shield-surfing and dwarf-tossing and other downright silly stunts that PJ couldn't resist in TTT - but hey, there's black humour at that point in the book too...
(And at least I didn't throw the dwarf!)
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I'm glad the sense of chaos and movement comes across, because there weren't many words to do it in. Fortunately, it's a scene that's so fully realised both in the book and in the movie that I suspect most readers don't need a lot of description to get themselves back there.
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