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Have you ever wondered what would happen if the characters in The Silmarillion were smoooooth like they were sippin' a Sex on the Beach on a party barge in the harbor at Alqualondë? The "Yacht Rock Silmarillion" retells The Silmarillion as though the characters all had perms…
"Move farther north," Caranthir says to her a month after the attack, gaze steady on her even as his hands continue briskly gutting fish. "There is plenty of land closer to my fortress, and my people can help protect yours if there is another attack."
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
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*wipes the tears from laughter from her eyes* Uli, you wrote a fabulous story given the challenge request. I just love how you wrote these two characters, especially Saeros just sounds so like him (impatient and loooves an audience) and ai poor Mablung, just getting distracted all along by a goat. *snicker* poor guys, hehehe.
This is great. So funny and still erotic. I am an absolute fan of good dialogue and you handled it beautifully here. (I've been trying to resist saying I would love to have been one of those goats, but that sounds so nasty, yet, when have I ever been discreet. It's all fantasy writing afterall.)
Well they may have been more worth watching if the goats had hidden a bit better ;)
Thank you for the compliments, it was, once i started it, a suprisingly easy fic to write but it took me weeks and weeks of agonising to find the angle. Funny how a lot of my later stuff leans heavyish on dialougue which i normally find is soemwhat of a struggle :)
All right, the names of Mablung and Saeros drew my attention immediately, and after a long debate with myself: to read or not to read, given the 'slash' warning, I decided to give the story a go, and I can admit I'm very glad I did.
It's funny, wonderfully written, very enjoyable, and shines with such wit I wish I could pour into my own writing. :)
Thank you for reading it despite it being slash. I know it isn't usually your kind of thing
Also I am very glad that, deciding to try it, you enjoyed it :) It means I must have done somethign right. It was, I must admit fun to write too, partly because of the outragousness of the whole idea.
Thank you for the review. This fic terrified me writing it. Humour does not come easy and I was honestly afraid it would fall as flat as the proverbial pancake!
Thank you I am so glad you found it funny. Funny was hard work. If I remember right Mablung was meant to be paranoid until I actually wrote that last bit... lol then the goat just took over.
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