I haven't commented before - this is brilliant and so thoroughly well done! I was rereading (as you've updated) and thought I'd add a couple things...
1) Notice that he never addressed that whole faking his death thing? I'd love to see your take on that.
2) The "calling forth a vision of the finding" meant seeing Tolkien finding the red book. I posted a section of unpublished fic (supposedly written by Frodo, er, Maura) about how Amy chose victims (http://kqcrazytrain.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/horses-mouth-and-horses-ass/ and my apologies that my phone won't format the link). Another section of that story was the overwritten account of "the finding." Would you like to read it?
3) He never did channel Gollum directly, but "Jordan" went through a brief phase of "becoming like Gollum" that was disturbing enough that I wrote a fix about it at the time. I did a quick search and found a copy (http://m.fanfiction.net/s/1116527/1/Ban-Gyrurau-Half-RingBeast). Rereading it today made me feel sick. 90% of that story was acted out, with thanfiction hissing and rocking and biting. I was the horrified Sam. Fun fact: thanfiction was ALSO the stubborn healer. I've mentioned that character: Imrodyr, the elf-doctor. 4) Are you going to write more like this?
-- KumquatWriter, aka Orangeblossom, best known as just Abbey
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1) Notice that he never addressed that whole faking his death thing? I'd love to see your take on that.
2) The "calling forth a vision of the finding" meant seeing Tolkien finding the red book. I posted a section of unpublished fic (supposedly written by Frodo, er, Maura) about how Amy chose victims (http://kqcrazytrain.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/horses-mouth-and-horses-ass/ and my apologies that my phone won't format the link). Another section of that story was the overwritten account of "the finding." Would you like to read it?
3) He never did channel Gollum directly, but "Jordan" went through a brief phase of "becoming like Gollum" that was disturbing enough that I wrote a fix about it at the time. I did a quick search and found a copy (http://m.fanfiction.net/s/1116527/1/Ban-Gyrurau-Half-RingBeast). Rereading it today made me feel sick. 90% of that story was acted out, with thanfiction hissing and rocking and biting. I was the horrified Sam. Fun fact: thanfiction was ALSO the stubborn healer. I've mentioned that character: Imrodyr, the elf-doctor.
4) Are you going to write more like this?
-- KumquatWriter, aka Orangeblossom, best known as just Abbey