Potter's Wheel challenge, Throw - Deadly Accuracy

[azalaisdep]

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

Comments

[shirebound]

Wonderfully understated. That's exactly what he would have said. :)

[azalaisdep]

In that terribly-laconic way of his :-)

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!)

[azalaisdep]

Excellent :-) Good strong visuals are always nice to achieve in a drabble...

[someplacetobe]

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.

[azalaisdep]

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.

[someplacetobe]

I think you've managed to tap into that and present it beautifully.

[kortirion]

Great sense of chaos and movement you've got there - and I love the last line! *G*

[azalaisdep]

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.

[wormwood_7]

You wind up the action really nicely with that final comment. It's all very visual.

[azalaisdep]

The last line just had to be ;-) and I'm glad you can see the action so clearly.