Fic Outtake: Small Mercies IV

A thousand words today, but these are not among them:


To him, Haldir had been an incidental player on the stage of his awareness, a familiar face who escorted him up and down the winding staircase to Caras Galadon, but to her, he had been a trusted subordinate, perhaps even a companion. He had been her marchwarden for three thousand years, and before that, he had come of age beneath the golden boughs. Who can say how deeply their connection had run? Mayhap he had played with Celebrian as a boy, or maybe she had midwifed him into the world and heard his first indignant cries.

Even if there were no truth to these idle suppositions, it is no easy thing to send a man to war and meet his eyes when he returns, or to meet the eyes of his widow when he does not. Unseen ears ring with the echo

In Which LOTR Becomes the Dating Game

I watched ROTK EE today. I could've said this about TTT as well, but damn, is Denethor an unrivaled douchelord. Spineless, selfish, paranoid, arrogant, and vicious to his younger son, presumably because he wasn't manly man man enough. I know his mind was poisoned and warped by a palantir, but there had to be some root of ugliness in him to begin with. How he turned out two fine sons like Faramir and Boromir, I don't know.

While I would happily bone Eomer, Legolas, or Haldir, Faramir is no slouch, and of all the men, I think he and I would have been most compatible in terms of personality. Quiet, bookish, interested in history, not especially enamored of dick-waving but willing to scrabble if need be. Legolas is so pretty, but the movie makes him look dumb as a box of hair.

On the other hand, he's an elf, so he'd be absolutely faithful if he ever decided wheeled loving was his thing. I think I could live with dumb if he treated me well and put out on a semi-regular basis.

And he might not be the hottest Rohirrim, but I love Gamling.

Speaking of dumb as a box of hair, I finally realized that it's Helm's Deep, not Helms. Oops. I'll have to fix that in the previous parts of Mercies before I post Part III.