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Revision by Teasel (PG)
Fandom: LORD OF THE RINGS
Pairing: none
Author Website: Amazing Creatures
Why this must be read:
Teasel is one of my personal favorite LOTR fanfic authors. She shows a keen perception of the One Ring’s effect on its bearers. In this particular vignette, she deals with Bilbo’s struggle with the ring as he attempts to revise The Red Book to reflect the truth of how ownership of the ring passed from Gollum to Bilbo. It’s important to Bilbo to set the record straight, and yet he finds it extremely difficult, due to the ring’s influence, to write the truth of the matter.
Teasel handles this short scene brilliantly. Bilbo’s addict-like struggle with the ring is central to the point of the piece without being over-done or preachy.
… he thrust his ring firmly back into his pocket, straightened his waistcoat, and finger-combed his hair, pushing the silver curls neatly behind his ears. He cleared his throat. He picked up his pen, and thought Thief!, and wrote:
We meant to give it our only only pressent . . .
No, no, no. He crossed that out. No. This should be simple, this should be easy. He had told the truth to Frodo. Frodo had quirked his eyebrows, his expression hovering somewhere between a smile and a frown, and said, That does sound much more likely, Bilbo, adding for some reason, But what else could you have done?
(Underlined text is italicized in the original work)
Revision
Pairing: none
Author Website: Amazing Creatures
Why this must be read:
Teasel is one of my personal favorite LOTR fanfic authors. She shows a keen perception of the One Ring’s effect on its bearers. In this particular vignette, she deals with Bilbo’s struggle with the ring as he attempts to revise The Red Book to reflect the truth of how ownership of the ring passed from Gollum to Bilbo. It’s important to Bilbo to set the record straight, and yet he finds it extremely difficult, due to the ring’s influence, to write the truth of the matter.
Teasel handles this short scene brilliantly. Bilbo’s addict-like struggle with the ring is central to the point of the piece without being over-done or preachy.
… he thrust his ring firmly back into his pocket, straightened his waistcoat, and finger-combed his hair, pushing the silver curls neatly behind his ears. He cleared his throat. He picked up his pen, and thought Thief!, and wrote:
We meant to give it our only only pressent . . .
No, no, no. He crossed that out. No. This should be simple, this should be easy. He had told the truth to Frodo. Frodo had quirked his eyebrows, his expression hovering somewhere between a smile and a frown, and said, That does sound much more likely, Bilbo, adding for some reason, But what else could you have done?
(Underlined text is italicized in the original work)
Revision