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Not In Vain by Lucy Hale (PG-13)
Title: Not In Vain
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Author: Lucy Hale (email: trickylu@hotmail.com)
Author website: n/a
Pairing: Merry/Pippin, Merry/Boromir (sort of), Merry/Pippin/Boromir (a little)
Rating: PG-13
Why this must be read:
Okay. It's time to come clean. I'm a Boromir fan. Oddly, this has nothing to do with the movie although that scene in FoTR almost always makes me cry. That being said - and added to what's probably an excessive love of Hobbits - I was pretty much predisposed to enjoy this story.
That being said, this is an immensely enjoyable and sympathetic look at Boromir - the changes and emotional growth he goes through - during the quest and Merry and Pippin as catalysts of this. Taking Gandalf's words in TTT as inspiration - "It was not in vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromir's sake." - the author casts a new eye over the events immediately preceding the Council of Elrond through to Boromir's death. Into the canon events - there is a cavet in that the author generally chooses movie canon over book canon when the two conflict - she weaves a a story of a surprising and unexpected friendship and burgeoning love that knows no boundries.
Incidentally, for those who are squicked by the thought of interspecies sex, don't worry. You can read without fear of squickage.
Excerpt:
“The passage South is being watched.” Gandalf turned his eyes from the path they had been following, the relatively easy hike that was planned for the next
few days. “We must take the pass of Caradhras.”
Boromir jerked his eyes to the wizard. He couldn’t be serious.
But he was. Gandalf was staring right at the cold, impenetrable mountain range in the distance.
But surely...
There was no way. Even if the men could survive, these tiny and soft hobbits wouldn’t last a day.
He opened his mouth to speak in protest, turning back to Gandalf.
But he looked to them first, and found their eyes already on him.
Merry was serious. He had looked at the mountain, no doubt, and knew what they had in store for them.
Pippin was just curious.
He met their eyes, and then their gazes moved again, Merry’s back to the mountain, and Pippin to Gandalf.
But his heart did a silent stop and start when he realized…
They had looked to him first. They had looked to him at all. In this company, with their wizard friend, with Aragorn, whom they had come to depend on before meeting Boromir, with the elf and dwarf who knew so much more of this land...
Still they had looked to him.
The link goes to the Library of Moria site which is a LoTR slash archive and worth checking out.
Not In Vain by Lucy Hale
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Author: Lucy Hale (email: trickylu@hotmail.com)
Author website: n/a
Pairing: Merry/Pippin, Merry/Boromir (sort of), Merry/Pippin/Boromir (a little)
Rating: PG-13
Why this must be read:
Okay. It's time to come clean. I'm a Boromir fan. Oddly, this has nothing to do with the movie although that scene in FoTR almost always makes me cry. That being said - and added to what's probably an excessive love of Hobbits - I was pretty much predisposed to enjoy this story.
That being said, this is an immensely enjoyable and sympathetic look at Boromir - the changes and emotional growth he goes through - during the quest and Merry and Pippin as catalysts of this. Taking Gandalf's words in TTT as inspiration - "It was not in vain that the young hobbits came with us, if only for Boromir's sake." - the author casts a new eye over the events immediately preceding the Council of Elrond through to Boromir's death. Into the canon events - there is a cavet in that the author generally chooses movie canon over book canon when the two conflict - she weaves a a story of a surprising and unexpected friendship and burgeoning love that knows no boundries.
Incidentally, for those who are squicked by the thought of interspecies sex, don't worry. You can read without fear of squickage.
Excerpt:
“The passage South is being watched.” Gandalf turned his eyes from the path they had been following, the relatively easy hike that was planned for the next
few days. “We must take the pass of Caradhras.”
Boromir jerked his eyes to the wizard. He couldn’t be serious.
But he was. Gandalf was staring right at the cold, impenetrable mountain range in the distance.
But surely...
There was no way. Even if the men could survive, these tiny and soft hobbits wouldn’t last a day.
He opened his mouth to speak in protest, turning back to Gandalf.
But he looked to them first, and found their eyes already on him.
Merry was serious. He had looked at the mountain, no doubt, and knew what they had in store for them.
Pippin was just curious.
He met their eyes, and then their gazes moved again, Merry’s back to the mountain, and Pippin to Gandalf.
But his heart did a silent stop and start when he realized…
They had looked to him first. They had looked to him at all. In this company, with their wizard friend, with Aragorn, whom they had come to depend on before meeting Boromir, with the elf and dwarf who knew so much more of this land...
Still they had looked to him.
The link goes to the Library of Moria site which is a LoTR slash archive and worth checking out.
Not In Vain by Lucy Hale