History FanFic / HomeWithTheFairies

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:: Maddie becomes homesick for 'soda, hamburgers, french fries, ketchup' in chapter 4, and a longer list of foods in chapter 6. Maddie can find one luxury in Middle-earth. In chapter 19, Maddie is happy to have butter.

* UnreliableNarrator: Downplayed. Maddie is not trying to lie, but her misunderstandings affect the narration, especially in the early chapters, when the LanguageBarrier is still a major problem. For example, Maddie visits the town of Fornost, but it might not be Fornost; Maddie later uses the name "maybe-not-Fornost". Then in chapter 13, Maddie believes that Lord Kinsey will fire her if "gossip gets out", but this might not be true; perhaps Lord Kinsey is smart enough to know that the gossip is false. A writer's note on chapter 14 declares Maddie as an unreliable narrator.

* GratuitousFrench: Chapter 10 is "Danse Macabre", French for "[[TheDeadCanDance Dance of Death]]".

* PointyEars: When Maddie first hears the elves, they don't sound human. When she first sees an elf, she [[{{Fainting}} faints]]. She guesses that they might be fairies, elves or nymphs. Maddie needs a glimpse of pointed ears (hidden under hair) to decide that they are elves.

* FromDressToDressing: Maddie rips the sleeves of her dress in chapter 5 "Up and Out", to make pads to soak the blood from her period. In this DeconstructionFic, ripping her dress was not trivial. "I had to use my teeth and rocks, and got some rug burns on my hands from all the pulling."

* MundaneLuxury:
** Maddie misses so many things. From chapter 3 "Where Many Paths and Errands Meet",
---> ''Could I live in a place like this? Without plumbing (the outhouse was ''filthy''), electricity, microwaveable food, the luxuries I was used to?''
** Maddie becomes homesick for 'soda, hamburgers, french fries, ketchup' in chapter 4, and a longer list of foods in chapter 6. Maddie can find one luxury in Middle-earth. In chapter 19, Maddie is happy to have butter.

--> ''I wasn't even surprised by my luck of running into people in totally uninhabited places anymore. Something was keeping me alive here, because otherwise I'd have been dead outside Bree months ago.''

-->-- '''Maddie''', Chapter 3 "Where Many Paths and Errands Meet"

-> ''Where was the Peace Corps? World Health Organization? What country would allow any citizen, even ones who were chose [sic] to live a more primitive life, live in this kind of muck? I was absolutely gob-smacked by the disgusting standards of living.''

** Maddie becomes homesick for 'soda, hamburgers, french fries, ketchup' in chapter 4, and a longer list of foods in chapter 6.

* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: From the beginning of the story, Maddie wants to go home. To search for answers, Maddie wanders around Middle-earth, rather than settle in one place.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The magic that dumped Maddie into Middle-earth might also have blocked some memories, because [[Maddie forgot about ''The Lord of the Rings''. She has seen the movies and read the books. Her memories come back in chapter 11.]]

''Home with the Fairies'' (
[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6024634/1/Home-with-the-Fairies FFN]] or [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/599365 AO3]]) is a DeconstructionFic about [[TrappedInAnotherWorld girls falling into Middle-earth]], the setting of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The author I. Mushi wanted to write a "realistic" story, to contrast with other fanfics that drop modern folk into Middle-earth.

* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:Maddie forgot about ''The Lord of the Rings'' for many months, despite having seen the movies and read the books. She believes that the magic that brought her into Middle-earth might have caused this amnesia.]]

* HeroicBSOD: This happens to Maddie at the very beginning. She is no longer in her apartment, but in a grassland in the middle of nowhere.
--> ''I cried and screamed, ran in circles, tripped and fell, and basically went completely insane for about ten minutes.''

* {{Fainting}}: Maddie faints when she first sees an elf, one of an InhumanlyBeautifulRace. Before she faints, she feels "a strange preternatural sense of both awe and fear"; the elf "looks so perfect it was painful". Maddie faints perhaps because she is a transplant from a world with no elves. The faint lasts more than a few seconds. Someone moves Maddie to a bed, and she stays asleep until late morning.

-->-- Chapter 3, "Where Many Paths and Errands Meet"

* UnreliableNarrator: Downplayed. Maddie is not trying to lie, but her misunderstandings affect the narration, especially in the early chapters, when the LanguageBarrier is still a major problem. For example, Maddie visits the town of Fornost, but it might not be Fornost; Maddie later uses the name "maybe-not-Fornost". Then in chapter 13, Maddie believes that Lord Kinsey will fire her if "gossip gets out", but this might not be true; perhaps Lord Kinsey is smart enough to know that the gossip is false. A [[WordOfGod writer's note]] on chapter 14 declares Maddie as an unreliable narrator.

''Home with the Fairies'' is a DeconstructionFic about [[TrappedInAnotherWorld girls falling into Middle-earth]], the setting of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. The author I. Mushi wanted to write a "realistic" story, to contrast with other fanfics that drop modern folk into Middle-earth.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6024634/1/Home-with-the-Fairies Read it here.]] The story was not complete.

Maddie is a woman from America. She suddenly finds herself alone in a grassland, without knowing that this is Middle-earth. Now she's in "The Medieval Times Show You Can't Leave", and [[LanguageBarrier no one speaks English]]. The story is serious, with many tropes PlayedForDrama, but Maddie eventually adapts to this land, and builds her own adventure.

* {{Fainting}}: Elves are an InhumanlyBeautifulRace. When Maddie first sees an elf, she faints.

* UnreliableNarrator: Downplayed. Maddie is not trying to lie, but her misunderstandings affect the narration, especially in the early chapters, when the LanguageBarrier is still a major problem. For example, Maddie visits the town of Fornost, but it might not be Fornost; Maddie later uses the name "maybe-not-Fornost". Then in chapter 13, Maddie believes that Lord Kinsey will fire her if "gossip gets out", but Lord Kinsey might be smart enough to know that the gossip is false, so he might be protecting Maddie. A [[WordOfGod writer's note]] on chapter 14 declares Maddie as an unreliable narrator.

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Maddie is a woman from America. She lands in Middle-earth...

* AttemptedRape: Maddie must accept food from strangers. One of these strangers tries to rape Maddie, but Maddie fights him until another character rescues Maddie.
* CellPhonesAreUseless: When Maddie lands in Middle-earth, she has no cell phone reception. Because she knows not that she is in Middle-earth (a place with no cell towers), Maddie continues looking for reception until her phone's battery dies forever.

* DamselInDistress: Maddie is in a group of travelers when bandits attack them. They kill some {{Red Shirt}}s and kidnap Maddie and the others. They all remain prisoners until the eventual rescue. A few more Red Shirts die, and Maddie is lucky to be among the survivors.

* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:Maddie forgot about ''The Lord of the Rings'' for a long time. She thinks that the magic that brought her to Middle-earth might have caused this amnesia.]]

* LanguageBarrier: In Middle-earth, no one speaks English.

* RedShirt: Unnamed characters die because Middle-earth is a dangerous place.

* CanYouHearMeNow: When Maddie lands in Middle-earth, she has no cell phone reception. Because she knows not that she is in Middle-earth (a place with no cell towers), Maddie continues looking for reception until her phone's battery dies forever.