Funniest author note I've seen in a long time. For an LOTR slash story that features Haldir and Legolas getting it on in a bathtub, the author adds a note warning about possible anachronisms - she's not a historian and doesn't know whether or not baths had been invented yet, so just go with it please. Heh.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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brenda m - Mar 28, 2003 10:42:10 am PST #4441 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
sumi - Mar 28, 2003 10:43:45 am PST #4442 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
She's writing slash and she hasn't even read the books. . . uh, no, can't really get upset by that.
Connie Neil - Mar 28, 2003 11:27:17 am PST #4443 of 10000
brillig
Bathtubs date back to Roman times. At least.
And in medieval times, it was common to turn bathing into an event. I've seen several paintings of the time that show round wooden tubs with curtains around them and a shelf ont he edge holding wine and food while minstrels are playing nearby. And often the tub is shared, often with someone of hte opposite gender. Funny thing is, the people in the tub are generally wearing hats.
Fay - Mar 28, 2003 11:29:54 am PST #4444 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
All very true. Also, of course, although Cassandra Clare's tale of Sam bathing Mr Frodo with strawberry bubble bath six times a day are mere wishful thinking, canonically the first thing Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin do when they get to Frodo's supposed new house in Buckland in the book is to have baths. There's even a bath song about how fabulous hot water is. And Pippin splashes water everywhere.
Oh, if only this had made it into the movie....
t /shallow and obvious
sumi - Mar 28, 2003 11:31:13 am PST #4445 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Doesn't matter- - -it's Middle Earth not Earth!
And the hobbits have baths at Frodo's new house in Bywater (I think). Pippin sings a rousing bath song.
Connie Neil - Mar 28, 2003 11:54:24 am PST #4446 of 10000
brillig
Ah, the missing scenes, the bathing scenes...
Steph L. - Mar 28, 2003 12:13:37 pm PST #4447 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Funny thing is, the people in the tub are generally wearing hats.
Propriety, my dear.
Dana - Mar 28, 2003 12:17:36 pm PST #4448 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Poly Recs has been updated.
70 stories, 17 fandoms, and the eternal question, "Is it actually possible to rot your brain by reading too much fanfic?"
Atropa - Mar 28, 2003 12:19:38 pm PST #4449 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oooh!
scampers off to look
deborah grabien - Mar 28, 2003 12:43:53 pm PST #4450 of 10000
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
And the hobbits have baths at Frodo's new house in Bywater (I think)
I read this as "Bayswater", which is where my first flat in London as an adult was (back in 1978).
As a non-Tolkeiner, this really would have answered some long-standing questions about my excessively hairy neighbours.