Ironmongery Challenge, Hammer: Unexpected Guests

[azalaisdep]

Author: Azalais
Title: Unexpected Guests
Source: The Hobbit
Characters: Thranduil, Legolas
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit.

[My Drabble-muse is very very rusty, and you wouldn't believe the trouble I've been having coaxing her out, so this is rather late. She wouldn't even

Comments

[curiouswombat]

What an excellent bit of foreshadowing - I can just see Thranduil emphasising his points like that, too.

[azalaisdep]

Yes, I could really see him thumping the table. I wanted to write something in the Hobbit time-frame, but not from the Dwarves' POV - because after all we mostly see that in canon. And I'm re-reading The Hobbit with First Small Person, and we are currently in Mirkwood, so...

[silverstarspray]

Maybe it's just post-finals insanity, but that last line really made me giggle.

Great use of the prompt!

[azalaisdep]

I'm glad you giggled - I did too! I couldn't help setting poor Legolas up...

ETA: Oh, and congratulations on being post-finals, too! Just in time for a certain Long-Awaited Movie...

[shirebound]

Oh ho, a conversation to be remembered later! Very nice!

[azalaisdep]

These things do come back to haunt one :-) I've been quite struck, thinking about the Elven POV in The Hobbit, by how anti-Dwarf the Wood-Elves would all be and how badly, from their perspective, the Dwarves behave.

[jay_of_lasgalen]

I like Thranduil pulling rank, and can just see him pounding his fist on the table. Oh, those dreadful dwarves! And I love Legolas, aghast at being thought a dwarf-friend :>) If he only knew ...

[azalaisdep]

Re-reading The Hobbit with First Small Person (and, at the same time, re-reading The Quest of Erebor from UT myself, which of course gives a far less pro-Dwarf perspective) I've really noticed how badly the Dwarves do behave, from the Wood-Elves' point of view - even more so later in Erebor.

Couldn't resist the last line ;-)

[kortirion]

- "a raggle-taggle mob of half-starved Stunted Ones?

I like the expletive - and the irascible Thranduil. *g*

[azalaisdep]

I can't resist a bit of Irascible!Thranduil. Let's face it, he does have cause!

(I must get myself a proper Thranduil icon...)