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Gifts of the Water - Chapter 17 - theowlandtheunicorn - The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Categories: F/M, Gen Relationships: Boromir (Son of Denethor II)/Original Female Character(s), Aragorn | Estel & Boromir (Son of Denethor II), Boromir (Son of Denethor II) & Gandalf | Mithrandir Characters: Boromir (Son of Denethor II), Original Female Character(s), Aragorn | Estel, Gandalf | Mithrandir, Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Éowyn (Tolkien), Éomer Éadig, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Drama, Angst, Friendship, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Boromir Lives, Sort Of, Modern Girl in Middle Earth, a very extended redemption arc for Boromir, not that I think he needs it, but he’s getting one anyway Summary: Boromir fell beneath Amon Hen and was given to the River – and the River gave him back. What price will he and those who love him have to pay for his return? And who set it for them? Or: Boromir Lives, with a twist.

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Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

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oh boy i love having all this new content, I will definitely explore it and not succumb to the insidious slayer deed compulsion and run around on one square inch of the map shooting at one low level enemy type for two hours

THIS IS NOT A DRILL IF YOU'VE BEEN THINKING OF TRYING OUT LOTRO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW YOU CAN GET THE PAID STUFF FOR FREE

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL IF YOU'VE BEEN THINKING OF TRYING OUT LOTRO PLAY IT RIGHT NOW YOU CAN GET THE PAID STUFF FOR FREE

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"kill them with balrog" WRONG! one million goblins attack 👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺👺

While the Balrog was definitely bad, if it hadn't showed up then the entire Fellowship would have gotten completely murdered by one million goblins

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"Of course [The Lord of the Rings] does not belong to me. It has been brought forth and must go now its appointed way in the world, though naturally I take a deep interest in its fortunes, as a parent would of a child. I am comforted to know that it has good friends to defend it against the malice of its enemies."

- J. R. R. Tolkien in Letters from Tolkien

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Categories: F/M Relationships: Denethor II | 26th Steward of Gondor/Finduilas of Dol Amroth (Tolkien) Characters: Denethor II | 26th Steward of Gondor (Tolkien), Finduilas of Dol Amroth (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Angst, Introspection, Romance, reluctant romance more like, but also love Summary: Denethor comes to Dol Amroth to take his betrothed home.

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Marker’s Custom Writing Ask Game

The last ask game I made myself was a blast, so I’m making another one! This time the theme is writing!

Feel free to ask me these!

👍 Which of your fics is your favourite?

👎 Which of your fics is your least favourite?

👏 What’s the best fic you’ve ever read (not your own)?

🎭 Your favourite character to write for?

🎞️ Your favourite genre/trope/tag?

🤢 A genre of fic you’ll absolutely never write (besides the obviously problematic stuff)?

😣 A genre that you have written before, but you find very difficult to write?

🤩 A genre you haven’t written yet, but want to at some point?

💡 Random fic idea?

🔀 Crossover idea?

🤫 Tell us the name of one of your WIPs.

😍 One of your favourite writers?

😡 Writing pet peeve?

😓 The hardest part of the writing process for you?

🕳️ A moment in one of your fics that you think is underrated?

🫥 A headcanon about your comfort character that’ll probably never come up in one of your fics?

🥰 Favourite ship?

💔 Least favourite ship?

🏳️‍🌈 Sexuality headcanon for (insert character here)?

😿 Do you prefer fluff or angst?

😬 One of your favourite writing tropes/genres: Guilty Pleasure edition.

🚬 Best crackfic idea?

💬 The best comment you’ve ever received?

🔥 Hot take about your fandom?

👿 What was THE most out of character take on your favourite you’ve ever seen?

📜 A fic that inspired your writing style?

📕 One of the best physical books you’ve ever read?

⭐️ One important part of your favourite’s characterisation that other people never acknowledge?

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Ah.

Okay, these two moments combined break my heart a little bit (into tiny pieces):

Men came to the door crying for the Lord of the City. 'Nay, I will not come down,' he said. 'I must stay beside my son. He might still speak before the end. RotK, book V, Chapter 4 "The Siege of Gondor"

...Then Gandalf revealed the strength that lay hid in him; even as the light of his power was hidden under his grey mantle. He leaped up on to the faggots, and raising the sick man lightly he sprang down again, and bore him towards the door. But as he did so Faramir moaned and called on his father in his dream. Denethor started as one waking from a trance, and the flame died in his eyes, and he wept; and he said: 'Do not take my son from me! He calls for me.' RotK, book V, Chapter 7 "The Pyre of Denethor"

The only thing Denethor wanted is to hear his son speaking one last time. And his wish was granted.

He did hear Faramir speaking, and not something random. Before the end he was reminded that despite everything bad that happened between them, Faramir still needed him. Faramir called for his father, not Gandalf, or Imrahil, or Boromir, or anyone else. Deep down he believed that if something bad is happening to him his father would be the one who will come and help (and he's right; however crazy Denethor's actions are in these scenes, he does it not to "punish" or "torture", he truly believes that he's doing what's best for Faramir in these conditions). That's heartbreaking as it is.

But there's more. It's Faramir who is able to bring Denethor back to his senses, even for a little while - something no one else could achieve, all the others who tried to reason with the madman were ignored. The only words that mattered were the ones from Faramir.

If that doesn't mean they really loved each other as close relatives are expected to...

Like, I don't know, if such a scene happened in some pairing with a similar dynamics (two characters always fight, while actually caring about each other plenty), I'm sure the shippers would fiercely claim it a proof of true love.

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8 and 10 for the fic writer ask game

From this meme

8. Tell us your shortest and longest titles of all time

I have multiple one-word-title fics, I have a recent one that's just called 'Heist' and that's probably the shortest. I don't want to bother counting letters lmao

As for longest, I think my longest title was a oneshot collection called 'The Infinite Obituary Of Wilson P. Higgsbury' (no longer on my account but I think I orphaned the best parts of it and left them floating around ao3 under different titles)

10. What’s a phrase you catch yourself using in multiple fics, not necessarily on purpose?

OK, that probably doesn't count, but I haven't noticed myself using any 'catchphrases' and nothing interesting popped up when I looked in my word frequency checker.

This is probably one of the things that's hard to notice about your own prose.

Thanks for the questions!

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wow that's awesome! now when i read about bill the pony coming home safe to be sam's forever friend after being turned loose at the gates of moria i'm gonna think about jrrt taming a series of horses that got taken away from him forever.

“Tolkien had a strong affinity with horses, which he loved, and became a de facto breaker-in. No sooner had he broken one horse in but it was taken away. Another would then be given to him and he had to start the process again.”

- Tolkien and the Great War, John Garth, pg. 24

Did you know that Tolkien briefly joined an actual cavalry regiment??? This was during his college years, before the war started. The regiment was called King Edward’s Horse, and it recruited Oxford and Cambridge students.

John Garth’s book really makes you understand that Tolkien’s military involvement started a long time before WWI: as a teenager he was a cadet in his school’s Officer Training Corps, and he was also expected to do some military training in college. It’s wild to think that Tolkien personally experienced the transition from cavalry charges to modern warfare. And very sad, too, that like so many of his characters, he was forced to start training for war when he was just a kid, and then later he had to watch his own sons go off to war.

On a lighter note, now I know where Horse Girl Faramir comes from. “He can master man and beast,” indeed!

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100 song challenge- Northwest Passage (The 100 song challenge is an old deviantart meme, you just pick 100 songs you like. I've been doing it for years and every time I hit 100 I just start again. This is actually song 100 of this round, so I'm making a new playlist. I should start calling it the ∞ song challenge)

I don't know when/if this will happen, for various reasons, but one of the plot ideas i had for What Lies Ahead was these three traveling together, but Boromir and Sméagol are experienced travelers who navigate in ways that are not intuitive to the less experienced, and I'm pretty sure Gríma has only wandered far from the Rohan/Gondor area once in a nightmare road trip with Saruman, so he's having trouble understanding where they are going. Fortunately Boromir and Sméagol are two characters who are famous for their patience and humility, so they're doing a great job fielding an endless barrage of 'where are we/are we there yet', and Sméagol is the perfect person to explain how to find where you are on a map, because he navigates through scent, his intuitive eldritch sense of where Mordor is, and his pathological need to touch everything.

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Just wait a few years then Denethor will be my blorbo, I can feel it in the air

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For the fic writer ask: 17, 18, 22, 24 (if this is too many feel free to just do whichever one(s) you like best) ✨

(from this meme) More questions is always better because sometimes I just don't have a good answer for these <w<;

When you get a new fic idea, what does that look like in your mind? Does it play out like a film? Do you imagine lines of dialogue or a certain moment? Does a character just sit there staring at you?

Sometimes I start receiving the prose in something very close to its ultimate final form as if it's being beamed into my brain. If I don't write it down I feel like I'm going mad.

But then that will abruptly stop mid-story and I will flounder for weeks trying to come up with the next part on my own

If you have noticed themes emerging in your writing, what are they? What broad themes and topics do you enjoy exploring?

People keep killing and eating rats in my stories. It's gross. I have to politely ask them to stop.

Do you have a fixed writing routine, or do you write when you have time? Is there a time of day when you prefer to write?

I don't have a fixed routine but I generally prefer evenings.

What colors, sights, sounds, textures, etc. inspire you? Do certain environments make you feel more creative than others?

Alas, I have never felt inspired by a texture. If I'm having difficulty concentrating, music by Myrone always helps (especially the Drift Stage Vol. 1 album)

Thanks for the ask!