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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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Oshun, this is just lovely. Of course you are featuring some of my favorite characters here, so how could I not love it. But you are also allowing some of the angst to be in the background instead of forcing them to forge through those breakwaters. Lovely!
Thank you so much! I am having such a good time writing these. I am thrilled to see that you are also. I want to do the letter one. Read yours too late last night to muster the strength to review. Will do so now.
Such a lively piece of dialogue and interaction. And a bit of Tirion atmosphere coming to life, briefly, when circumstances were already far different by then.
Of course, Elrond eventually gets to build his own house...
Thanks. I had almost fogotten that I had written that one. It was lost in a flood of B2MeM stories, others as well as my own. I never bought a house myself, but considered it seriously enough to have seriously shopped for one and there a couple I still remember with some sadness.
Elrond got his house and it was legendary. I still like to think he got another one later then in Aman. I also imagine that Maedhros and Fingon got a house eventually. I cannot resist believing that.
Oh, Oshun. That's a bit bittersweet, and altogether a lovely moment. You're good at that, mixing the two to form a unique style. I'm not sure I ever quite grasp it, or what you intend, but I do love it.
Thanks for reading! I either did not get or missed the notification of this review. Oh, the story is not profound, just that Maedhros and Fingon could have just as easily been happy in Valinor to begin with if they had not been up to their eyebrows in the political machinations of their respective families. Anyway, they didn't ever buy Maedhros' dream house, but Elrond did one day build his own dream house, but then he lost his wife who shared it with him. So, of course, I had to write Elrond reunited with her in Valinor and trying again. OK. My silly explanation is nearly as long as the story. Doing that always reminds that a joke is not a good one if one has to explain why it's funny! I am not destined to do a great job with ficlets. Lazy as I am, I am destined to be a long-form writer.
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