Silmarillion/Shakespeare -- Macbeth (R)

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Title: Giver of Gifts by Mirabehn
Pairing: Annatar/Macbeth
Author on LJ: mirabehn
Author Website: http://www.fluffhouse.org.uk/mirabehn/library.html
Why this must be read: There's not a whole lot of Shakespeare crossovers out there, and most of what is out there consists of crossovers between Shakespeare's plays. But this little snippet -- ahh! Mirabehn has pitted two British literary greats against each other, and it could not be more apropos, especially considering that Tolkien wrote the Ents into The Lord of the Rings precisely because he thought that the solution to Birnham Wood coming to Dunsinane in the Scottish Play was stupid. Mirabehn kind of goes along in that vein, using another of Tolkien's characters to explain the setup to the Scottish Play. Just how did the witches know to waylay Himself on the way home from battle after all?

Be forewarned . . . this is a dark, dark story.

He came to me in the darkness, on the first night of the MacDonwald campaign. I heard no sound, not the wind flapping against my tent nor the horses stamping on the hard ground, nor the shouts of fearful men in a troubled sleep.

He came like the nightfall, like death, and his eyes were golden.


Giver of Gifts