A plug and an offer

[misscam]

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.

Comments

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

[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.

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[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.