Ahaha yes~
An incredibly beautiful silver-haired elf, extremely tall, in gorgeous rich silver clothing and armor, wielding a famous sword to hew away all my enemies and fears. Very protective. Original elf king upon which all other prototypes built. Oh yes, that will do.
Oh gods, my goober hound is my patronus (at least as she will harrier-howl at the slightest thing)
All lovely, heart-hearted, and stubborn ladies! (I like and focus on male characters quite a bit too, but yes, this is most delightful group) It’s funny, I still think of Kate as the real Indis-mum, and despite the lopsided re-blogging, Misao is my favorite (female or otherwise) character from RuroKen. Not that Kaoru isn’t second, and in the top five of overall favorites. And yay, my OC queen!
ooh, hobbits. this is hard….
Oh man, gonna have to refresh everyone to remember which is which…
(I figured I was tempting fate for a terrible 7)
OOHH Dear this is the “who do I hate less”, with added “who is less lionized and whitewashed by fans in a way that doesn’t disgust me”, and some ‘well at least this character is such an effective and enjoyable to hate’ villain. So combining the three categories of A) terrible person who did awful things for selfish motives, and B) can’t stand to see them on my dash, against C) works as antagonists for actually likable characters :
Indis is always my forever girl :), and I have always loved and deeply admired Finarfin, though Ingwë thanks to head-canon developments and fic rocketed his way into the top tier (plus wise king that never disappointed or led astray his people or ever assaulted another free folk is rare and precious in Tolkien). Amarië I also have quite the affection and some headcanons for, but Elemmírë I can’t definitively decide on a gender, so they have bottom slot for that reason.
OOooh man I don’t even know which story to pick? Do I go with one of the Angrod and the Bëor (which would probably be Irongrip and Rage-Bunny unless I go with the Gone Fishing or the Boromir in the Swamps ficlets)? Or the trilogy of old Bór women mouthing off in exasperation and disgust to the Fëanorians?
*spins the wheel of indecision*
The collective Bór quartet, for ease of answering
ah, I’m terrible in that I add to my drafts more than I can remember deleting things. Though i do know at least in my initial conception of the story that would the latest one with Borte the First, there was a stronger emphasis on her seen as this witch figure, and the warriors of Ulfang assaulting her daughters(-in-law). I do know in earlier versions of my idea, Bór was still alive post-Nirneath – that he was bed-ridden and dying when Ulfang/Lorgan’s warriors come, so Borte has to leave from tending his side to throw them out, so there’s the old Bór dying in the backroom so to speak while this is happening and Borte uses that as part of shaming the hostile warriors away, and then when Bór dies (idk? i think maybe he died in the middle of this face-off stuff?) that’s when Borte flees. But it was much simpler and more streamlined to have Bór die right before the Nirnaeth gets into gear, thus leaving Uldor less opposition and as this dark omen over the Bór going in.
Of the first one with Kreka, my favorite part still is when she kneels over the prayer rug, because the pose and the feeling of the carpet in her hands and the helplessness was so visceral when I wrote it and still is, and these thoughts of doubt and how she sees the options that aren’t options before and behind her and the memories of her family and the examples of her ancestors that she doesn’t know if she can uphold. It’s the core of …everything.
Kreka’s talk to the Fëanorians in the second fic (more the wrapping up that speech and their last words and making sure the flow of the conversation- I had the points and various lines, but making sure it flowed. And correcting the timeline intervals for everything to fit with canon). Then when I got to Borte it was hard to make sure it wasn’t too similar. And I went back to the dialogue a lot and added quite a bit to Maglor’s presence and made him more openly defending and welcoming to the Bór (but still that moment where he switches over and sides with his brothers because they are Fëanorians and only their direct kin count in the end. If I didn’t have that, I’d be wildly mis-characterizing those characters from the book) Also the packing scenes. What do these semi-nomadic people pack their items in and how do they carry them…
I wrote several popular-ish stories off of mostly OC human characters from a group that had all of two or three lines in the Silmarillion. The stories made at least one reader think “what happened to the People of Bór?”
Interest and excitement for these Good-Guy Easterlings ♥
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