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Yeah, great post. Quite chilling (no pun intended) to hear people so coldly (again, no pun intended) discuss the very limited prospects any orphan had on the journey across the ice.
In Hallindel's and Halweg's back-story the house of Lady Isandiel in Mithlond where Hallindel still has an appartment is also called The House of the Orphans, as Isandiel took in several Gondolin orphans herself. Now I wonder, did Idril perhaps inspire her to it? Oh, RÃ*aa-aan... Your turn, hon! Better start prepping a post myself...
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That's when writing becomes really good - when the characters take over the story and the writer just writes what they do, not what she had planned to write.
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Yeay! (About the post, obviously, not about the constant pain...)
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All right - my first feeble attempt at a post-op post - my goodness, I'm rusty!!! Let me know if it makes sense.
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01-30-2009, 06:20 PM | #186 |
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I'm a very bad person. My first thought after reading was: 'Still got nightmares like that? No wonder those two never got married.'
I really liked the mouse-scene. It fits well with my imagination of Elves and how at ease animals can be around them, as opposed to around us humans.
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Your comment was helpful - I made some changes to hopefully show that this isn't a normal type of nightmare. What do you think?
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. Too wild? impractical? needs some mods? whatcha all think? I was thinking that Elrond could find out, and finally heal him.
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No, not with each other, obviously.
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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.
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And Glorfindel is NOT a survivor of the Balrog. His body perished, and I expect that the new body he was given, does not retain such reminders of the Balrog encounter - so he wouldn't know about that detail. Having Elrond heal him sounds great. But I would agree about leaving Orcs out of it. I don't think Frodo's wound gave him extra pain near Orcs - he needed Sting's blue light to warn him of those. A different question - would it be OK for me to post "Rameldir's" text as a separate story on fanfiction.net? I would leave out the name details on Erufailon's cousins, but otherwise give Willow credit for beta-reading.
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In Frodo's case, seeing Bilbo as a wrinkled (orcish-looking in the movie) creature, was due to the Ring, not his wound. (And I suddenly remember what this idea reminded me of, the celtic tale of Tain Bó. The knights of Ulster suffered from a equally embarrasing curse that made them weak and ill for several days when the realm was in danger. They got it for forcing a pregnant women to win a race, which I suppose is a far more embarrassing reason that fighting a balrog...) Quote:
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Ah, I knew I was forgetting something. That's indeed a more accurate description.
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Yeah, she went in to labor or something at the end of the race and then she cursed them all to have to suffer the same pain. Gotta love the Tain.
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Another post by Willow and I together - and we don't write one character each, we write one section each, and then invite edits.
She challenged both Rameldir and myself about his trauma - he thought nothing could be done about it, but if there is hope for at least some measure of success, he would try. As the trauma is a major element only in an earlier story, it's possible for me as his storyteller to lessen the impact of it from now on. This is one of the interesting parts of RPing, different from writing as an independent author
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