Fic Rec Fridays 2019 - part 27

Muse (5890 words) by Roselightfairy
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Gimli (Son of Glóin)/Legolas Greenleaf
Characters: Gimli (Son of Glóin), Legolas Greenleaf, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, artist!Gimli, based on the story of Pygmalion, please ignore any plot improbabilities, True Love's Kiss, True Names, mentions of past Gimli/other, Magical Language

Summary:

Reincarnation/Second Singing AU. Modern-day Gimli is a talented sculptor just finishing up the biggest and most unprecedented project of his life – a marble statue of what looks like an elf from some kind of high fantasy novel. He’s never made anything this good before, especially not without a model – but strangely enough, he feels almost like he has seen this image before, as though in a long-ago dream - or even another life . . .

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A beautifully told and lovingly envisioned Modern AU that's at turns hilarious, endearing and clutching-chest-because-of-sudden-cardiac-event emotional.

Or: how Gimli's evening just turned Very Interesting, in the tale where Person A Is nude for "Maximum Fluster Potential" (and person B believes it's an "artistic decision"). And how some things remain magical regardless of time and distance -- or such trivialities as the remaking of the world.