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If you aren't already on Lord of the Rings Fanfiction, would you join? For me? *makes puppy eyes* I'll even make you this one-time offer - join up, give me a link to your story/stories there and I will give all reviews. I don't often give reviews, but you do this favour for me, I will kick my brain hard and force reviews out of it, kicking and screaming all the way.

Or if that doesn't tickle your fancy, ask for something else. A drabble, a poem (but please don't - I stink), beta-ing or something else you were thinking of.

(If you have already joined, I'll get around to giving you a review as well.)

Thus endeth Cam's beggeth for today.

ETA: To prove Cam does as Cam says, what kittycatness asked for and Cam did.

Date: 2005-01-22 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chem-nerd.livejournal.com
Cool site. I like how they categorize fic so you don't get whomped in the face with slash, if you're not of the sort who likes it. I am now registered there as chem_nerd, since that seems to have become my default web handle--though I'm not sure I needed another form of procrastination:-) As for your kind offer...I've got a PPC fic which will eventually require beta-ing?

Date: 2005-01-23 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Done and done. Just hit me with it when you're done.

Date: 2005-01-22 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittycatness.livejournal.com
I joined. Sounds interesting. I'll be checking stories out there later on.

I do have a favour to ask, though. Could you please write an Eowyn/Faramir drabble? I'd be very appreciative and be ever grateful.

Thank you. :)

Date: 2005-01-22 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittycatness.livejournal.com
Right. Sorry. And I've registered as "Kittycatness". No fics up as of yet.
Thanks again.

Date: 2005-01-23 12:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Excellent. What do you want the drabble on? Any theme or event or just whatever strikes me? If you want anything in particular, do say.

Date: 2005-01-23 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittycatness.livejournal.com
Anything, just not something overly fluffy (but if it can't be avoided, that fine). I trust your writing, so whatever strikes you would be fine.
Thank you again.

Date: 2005-01-23 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Okay... *goes to ponder and scribble*

Date: 2005-01-23 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kittycatness.livejournal.com
Beautiful. I enjoyed it. Thank you. :)

Date: 2005-01-22 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinneahtes.livejournal.com
Wow -- your begging skills rival both of my dogs' AND Chip's... I'm impressed.

What does joining up do? And is this something for non-fanfic-writers to do? *feels stupid, even after reading every note she could find*

Date: 2005-01-23 12:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Well, it is primarely a fanfic archive, but you can join as a reader as much as a writer - my stories are all posted tehre and I will probably post stuff there I wouldn't at ff.net. And we have a forum as well, which will grow.

I don't beg often, so I must do it well when I do ;)

Date: 2005-01-23 11:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinneahtes.livejournal.com
Looks nifty... and ooh, a forum... *ponders giving it a try as a reader*

And I have now realized that it's been a longer time than I thought since I've sat down and read LOTR fanfic (as opposed to Silmarillion). ^_^;

Date: 2005-01-23 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Then hop to, smartypants.

Date: 2005-01-23 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belegcuthalion.livejournal.com
I will put up some more of my stories.

BTW - thank you for your review!

Date: 2005-01-23 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Least I could do, since you were already there and all. I'll try to do a few more as well. Though I refuse to attempt to understand anything in German. :P

Date: 2005-01-23 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belegcuthalion.livejournal.com
Don't worry - all my tales on LOTR-Fanfiction are in english.

Date: 2005-01-23 03:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
I know, I know, but you could have asked me to review something on your site just to laugh at how I'd have to guess in my review what the heck was going on.

Date: 2005-01-23 03:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belegcuthalion.livejournal.com
And you could take a horrible revenge by confronting me with something norwegian (well, at least I understand a little bit danish...) *grins*

Date: 2005-01-23 07:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
But of course...

Date: 2005-01-23 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bjam1402.livejournal.com
http://www.lotrfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?uid=388

Lotsa stories for you. :P Actually, you don't have to review them. They're all pretty crappy... But either way, there they are.

Date: 2005-01-23 07:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Now, now. Cam does as Cam says. Reviews there will be. And they're not crappy.

Date: 2005-01-23 09:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sliven.livejournal.com
Are there too few who votes for The flame of Anor?
I know I haven't voted in all chategories yet... *shifty eyes*
But at least I'm a member, 's good, no?

(http://www.lotrfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?uid=112)

Date: 2005-01-23 11:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
I'm not sure how the voting goes, really. But I'm sure a few more wouldn't hurt.

And yes, being a member is good. I gave a few reviews, but I think Grima was making eyes at me. Hmm.

Date: 2005-01-25 12:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sliven.livejournal.com
Heh, that's Gríma all right... Thank you very very much for your reviews! *bows*

Date: 2005-01-23 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
What do I get if I register as a reader? ;)

I'm terribly sorry, but I haven't got any fanfiction to offer...

Date: 2005-01-23 03:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
You get to ask a small favour?

Date: 2005-01-25 01:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
Okay, I've registered there as a reader.

Date: 2005-01-25 02:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Then ask thine tiny favour, my dear.

Date: 2005-01-25 04:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
Does another drabble still count as a tiny favour? If not, then just keep up your good work with OFUM 2!

Date: 2005-01-25 02:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
That depends - you could have a little one. 100 words, maybe.

Date: 2005-01-25 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
100 angsty words on Faramir and Éowyn, please? I would try a puppy-eyed look now as well, but I'm afraid I am no good at that...

Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-25 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
He scares her, sometimes. They walk in the gardens together and she sees in him light in twillight, a promise of dawn to a night she has sought herself. His silence speaks of life gentle, life quiet. In his slight touches of her hand glory seems to fade. Her life unravels and she fears him and seeks him both, for surely he brings doom to her life.

One day, he is not there and she lingers in despair, for she has not the courage to seek his arms and not the will to walk away. And when he finally comes, she knows her life will not be as she dreamed.

But she is sleeping no more and she walks with Faramir in the gardens, leaving the lullaby behind.

Re: Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-26 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
Oh, thank you very much! This is really lovely, and I would have never thought that the theme of quietness and gentleness could actually be interpreted as somehow disruptive and angsty. Thanks again!

Re: Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-26 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
If you're not looking for it, it can be. To me, Eowyn is someone who sought glory and greatness in her life, and to then have to deal with pity and gentleness and love...

You're welcome :)

Re: Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-28 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
I think your analysis of Éowyn's character is very apt. Her desire for glory and greatness might be a kind of cultural trait, too, as the Rohirrim are basically an oral warrior culture. In order to achieve honour and to be remembered, one has to make such an end as shall be worthy of song, to put it in Éomer's words. Showing a completely different kind of courage by finding something worth living for might not go down so well with her in that context.

Re: Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-28 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Yeah. The Rohirrim are in many ways echoing my ancestors, who believed much of the same. As is said in Håvamål...

The coward believes he will live forever
If he holds back in the battle,
But in old age he shall have no peace
Though spears have spared his limbs
(...)
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But the words' glory
Will never die
In honourable reminisce
(...)
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great deed.


I quite agree with your view of it - when a culture is forged in battle, honouring the victorious dead seems to follow. And when you are Éowyn, bereft of any other path out of a cage of darkness, you look for all the reasons to die and none of the reasons to live. To turn around from that cannot be easy. And it takes another kind of courage to dare live when your culture honours death in battle - and a more heroic death than Èowyn's battle with the Witch-King would have brought her would be hard to find.

Re: Well, it's around 100 words...

Date: 2005-01-30 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
Thank you very much for the quotation! The comparison between the Rohirrim and the Old Norse was very elucidating. But may I dare to ask what the "Havamal" is... Sorry, but I do not know anything about Old Norse culture.

Date: 2005-01-23 03:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com
Yeah, sure, why not? I'll start out as just a reader and go on from there.

And in return... more of OFUM or The Chapter That Never Was? Please?

Date: 2005-01-23 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
Will do. Though not tonight, my brain hurt. *pats brain*

Date: 2005-01-23 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elvenpiratelady.livejournal.com
Yours too? *offers aspirin*

Date: 2005-01-23 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kazaera.livejournal.com
Okay, as a favour to you :-P

A review would be nice, but you don't have to. All that stuff is pretty old by now anyway. *shrugs*

Date: 2005-01-23 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misscam.livejournal.com
I'm sure I can cough up some anyway. *goes*

Date: 2005-01-24 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kazaera.livejournal.com
Oooh! Thank you so much! :D
*skips off smiling*

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