OMG, I cannot believe how much this moves me.

[vulgarweed]

I just got a kudo on Goldberry's Song at AO3. First one since I posted it there.

I'm not saying it's the greatest fanwork I ever wrote, I know it isn't. It's close to my heart, though; I'd just heard one too many arguments about how Goldberry was supposedly some voiceless male wish-fulfillment hippie-chick cipher, but she had never struck me that way at all. I thought she was something ancient and mysterious and never fully explained (just like Tom Bombadil) and loved him for reasons of her own. At least in my head, she was always clearly a river-nymph sort of spirit, and he a Green Man figure, so why wouldn't they be together as equals representing different but interdependent elements?

So I dug into The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and aimed at pastiching that sort of rhyming style to tell her courtship story from her point of view.

Comments

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

It's certainly no worse than Tolkien's own poems, and is rather sweet too. I like it a lot, and totally agree that Goldberry, like Tom, has to be a Power of some sort, albeit one who chose to stick to her own patch (metaphorically speaking) rather than trot about actively meddling in anyone's Destiny.

[duniazade.livejournal.com]

Loved it and left a kudos too.