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Fic Rec Fridays 2019 - part 2
Jan. 11th, 2019 02:51 pmWhy Breaks Thou The Wand (4831 words) by Lorinand_Lost
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin) & Legolas Greenleaf
Characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Thranduil (Tolkien), Galadriel | Artanis
Additional Tags: Ballad 39: Tam Lin, the elves are a lot more like the perilous fair folk of British superstition
Summary:
This story is beautiful, well-thought-out and a bit unusual, all at the same time. And although I can only confess to a passing familiarity with the original Tam Lin story, the retelling here works very well from that perspective, too.
For one thing, I’m always game for stories where Tolkien elves are less nice and noble and more fey and wild - more Fae, if you will. What’s more, this piece is quite simply a delight to read - the prose flows beautifully, and has this hard-to-pind-down unearthly quality to it that makes the whole thing somewhat dreamlike.
Enjoy!
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin) & Legolas Greenleaf
Characters: Legolas Greenleaf, Gimli (Son of Glóin), Thranduil (Tolkien), Galadriel | Artanis
Additional Tags: Ballad 39: Tam Lin, the elves are a lot more like the perilous fair folk of British superstition
Summary:
Legends speak of the white gems of Lasgalen, formed of pure starlight. They lie at the bottom of a pool in a hazel grove in the far wood. But the grove is guarded by the Thranduilion, Legolas Greenleaf. They say he has skin of paperbark birch, the hair of willow leaves, and limbs of vine and sapling. He is wild and timeless, and from all who pass through the glen without the Elvenking's permission he will take their ring, their green mantle, or their life.
This story is beautiful, well-thought-out and a bit unusual, all at the same time. And although I can only confess to a passing familiarity with the original Tam Lin story, the retelling here works very well from that perspective, too.
For one thing, I’m always game for stories where Tolkien elves are less nice and noble and more fey and wild - more Fae, if you will. What’s more, this piece is quite simply a delight to read - the prose flows beautifully, and has this hard-to-pind-down unearthly quality to it that makes the whole thing somewhat dreamlike.
Enjoy!
