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Any of you lovely folks out there be prepared to beta/edit/generally help me with an LOTR fic I'm trying to write? It's Boromir-centric and I suspect going to be something of an epic.
I've never really dared write Lord of the Rings fic before, because I've never trusted myself to do it justice, but now there's this story that I really REALLY want to try and tell, and I could really do with a beta who was prepared to be quite harsh, make stylistic suggestions and be a little bit of a canon nazi, cos if I'm gonna do this, I want to do it right.

Yeah, in case you can't tell, I saw ROTK yesterday and fell in love all over again. I'm now re-reading the book for what must be the third time this year (but is the first time since studying anglo-saxon), and... fucking WOW. Tolkein is GOD. The poetry... stuns me every time. And the emotion of it. The film is incredible, there's no other film like it, but the book... every time I read it, I fall in love all over again.

And I very suddenly have a very strong memory of being... nine or ten, and playing at being Aragorn, and wanting to BE Aragorn, so that I could have a sword and fight battles and be king AND GET THE GIRL. Which is weird, because I'd always kind of assumed that I hadn't had anything even remotely resembling the thoughts about girls until I was much older. I didn't want Arwen, he always ended up going off with Eowyn in my games. I didn't understand why he wasn't in love with her, she's incredible. I wanted to be her too... but I wanted to be him more.
The older I've got, the more Arwen has grown on me though. Nothing to do with how gorgeous Liv Tylor is though, cos Miranda Otto is equally fabulous. Also, I've always loved Faramir/Eowyn, cos they were both just about my favourite characters and I always thought they really deserved each other. But yeah. Whenever I played Lord of the Rings, I was always Aragorn and he was always in love with Eowyn.

On an almost completely unrelated note, there wasn't enough... in fact there was any... interaction between Aragorn and Faramir in the film. My one real complaint. (Apart from some slight characterisation issues with Elrond and Denethor, although PJ's allowed his own interpretation...) I bet they put it all back in the extended version, though.

Anyway. In other news, it's two days before christmas and I haven't yet lost my voice. Ok, so the run of Nutcracker hasn't actually started yet, but I still sung almost every day last week, except Tuesday I think. I'm starting to be all carolled out. Today was 'alternative' carols with Jews for Justice in Palestine in Trafalgar Square, which was well fun.

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definitely. And to put any more into the theatrical cut would have made it look like Tolkien/Jackson were going 'oh, Eowyn doesn't have a bloke now, we'd better set her up with...oh, say...Faramir', whereas really it has great political significance quite apart from the fact that they're properly in love. Not that I think she doesn't ache for Aragorn while she loves him, but it's very much a case of the first eligible male of equal status she ever meets happens to be handsome and heroic and the heir to a long-abandoned throne, and frankly who wouldn't go a bit dippy over him?

I freaking love Miranda Otto as Eowyn. I want to be in her gang.