Your stories tend to run short, and they're like potato chips - I couldn't take just one! I wish I'd been able to find more of a place for Sam in this story, but I figured Elanor would go to her "uncles" to learn about things her father might not want to talk about. Getting the truth out of his war buddies. I know what you mean about the "great lives in great halls" - it's why I'm never at ease the few times I've tried to write Elves or Gondorians. But the Rohirrim are kind of in-between to me...certainly a heroic culture, but also very human to me, especially Éowyn, who I think is one of Tolkien's most multi-dimensional and rounded non-hobbit characters. So it was a delight to get to write her again. (I also have a story from way back about something that happened between Merry and the boy he thought Éowyn was, so that was in the back of my mind as some of the subtext in his part...)
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Date: 2008-04-29 04:51 am (UTC)Your stories tend to run short, and they're like potato chips - I couldn't take just one! I wish I'd been able to find more of a place for Sam in this story, but I figured Elanor would go to her "uncles" to learn about things her father might not want to talk about. Getting the truth out of his war buddies. I know what you mean about the "great lives in great halls" - it's why I'm never at ease the few times I've tried to write Elves or Gondorians. But the Rohirrim are kind of in-between to me...certainly a heroic culture, but also very human to me, especially Éowyn, who I think is one of Tolkien's most multi-dimensional and rounded non-hobbit characters. So it was a delight to get to write her again. (I also have a story from way back about something that happened between Merry and the boy he thought Éowyn was, so that was in the back of my mind as some of the subtext in his part...)