MagisterFlopsy
Since: May, 2021
09/04/2022 00:00:00
I don\'t know anything but this fanfic, but I\'d like to add that if Tolkien were alive today he would likely be extremely supportive of fanfiction in general. He was famously an extremely strong advocate of death of the author to the point he literally coined the term \"applicability\" in high-level literature discourse. And then there\'s the fact that The Lord of the Rings is one giant expression of Tolkien\'s sigma grindset. The man quite literally sold you a bunch of textbooks for a language that doesn\'t exist with a fantasy story attached. He started with a bunch of conlangs and made Middle-Earth primarily to be a world in which those languages would be spoken, not the other way around.
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Magnificent
Okay, first things first: it took me a long, long time to get around to reading this fic. The plot, the ships, the very idea of the Soulmate AU? Engh. Really not my thing. Especially as I am very picky about canon. I thought that the fic would, at the very least, not be my cup of tea.
Dear reader, I have never been so completely and utterly wrong in my entire life. If I ever have, then I struggle to think of an example.
While I am not sure what Tolkien would make of some of the changes and expansions of canon that the author of this extraordinary fic has come up with, I am certain that he would approve of the essence of it. He'd definitely approve of the music. The breadth of knowledge is incredible, the worldbuilding is remarkable, and good god, the ability to balance it all, making a coherent plot and neatly evading what could so easily have been a glorified commentary fic... This is a work of art, a work of craft, and a true masterpiece in the oldest sense of the word. It is a labour of love, and that, at least, Tolkien would most certainly have approved of.
And, as it happens, I do too. It is rare for a story of any kind to make me tear up, and even rarer for it to make my heart sing. This one did both, and so much more. It deserves all the credit that it gets and far, far more.