Journeys discussion thread

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Which two? Alagos and Tyaron?

No, not with each other, obviously.

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

The idea I had was something similar to the WK's knife shard in Frodo's body - that the flails on the whips of the Balrog could leave stuff behind in a victim's body, and that they would "come alive" around the time of the anniversary of the FoG and cause increasing nightmares and pain (in the form of heat) as the time approaches, culminating in full-on hallucinations on the actual day. Every year, Tyaron has had to deal with this, and he's dealt with it in various ways. He wants to get to Imladris before the actual day hits, so he can head into the wilderness and deal with it alone. There aren't too many survivors of Balrogs, so this isn't well-known, esp. since the hallucinations are something that he doesn't want found out. OH, and also, it reacts when orcs 'n stuff like that are near.

You could perhaps link the phantom pain to only the whip of Gothmog, the Balrog's leaders. Otherwise I'd imagine quite a good number warriors suffered from this, and the affliction would have been more known (even if less warriors still survived to the age), so he wouldn't specifically have to hide it. Only a suggestion, mind.

I like the idea of going to Elrond for healing, it might even start the fellow's good reputation as healer.

Personally I would leave out the when-orc-are-near reference, though. That might be a bit too much, considering orcs never had anything to do with it. But supposing we ever get to travel past Khazad-dum/Moria (I don't remember which of the two it would be at the time of our story) he could definitely experience some unexplained 'whip lash'. But it's your call.