Arda's Greatest Detective Solves Arda's Greatest Mystery!

[vulgarweed]

“Oh, my dear Iaun Hossion, it is dangerous,” Sérelókë said with delight to his Elven companion, and the green-grey gleam of his eyes was fey in the distant light of the flickering flames. “Very dangerous. Much I know of their kind that is not known in this land. There was a little problem I solved some time ago - two Teleri brothers found pierced to the heart in a foundered ship, with no sign that anyone else had been there at all.”

Iaun felt this was hardly the time to share reminiscence, as the drumbeat of the giant’s steps came closer. Yet Sérelókë also was a flame, and one that held the eye and stayed the hand.

“And it was?”

“A Second Kinslaying, not such a widely-told tale as the first,” Sérelókë said with a grim little smile. “Brother slew brother. They did for each other in an argument over whether Balrogs have wings at all.”

“And do they?”

“That is why it’s so very dangerous here,” Sérelókë said with glee. “They have them, yes - but only during their mating season.”


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Oh yes, he's coming back!

(HUGE thanks once again to the Tolkien nonnies at f_fa for naming help, in Sindarin this time. "Sanctuary" + "son of the army.")

In keeping with the crack-fic genre where this series started, I feel I should warn that the working title of this file is "Bang a Balrog (Get It On)" (I always feel it should fit the tune of the T. Rex classic, although it doesn't really.)

Comments

[luzula]

Yay! Looking forward to it.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

omg! I totally didn't get that Iaun Hossion was John Watson until your note at the end! I was about to google him to see if he was a canon Tolkien character. I am such an idiot, haha. amazing. so excited to see more Sereloke!

"Bang a Balrog (Get It On)" (I always feel it should fit the tune of the T. Rex classic, although it doesn't really.)

lmao.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

GOOD THAT'S VERY GOOD I WANT IT TO FEEL CANON. :D The names are always the hardest part. You need something that fits and makes sense for the culture (and this John is from of one of the Elven peoples who never made it to Valinor, so he'd have to have a Sindarin name, as opposed to this Sherlock, who's a Maia, therefore Quenya at least to start with oh GOD KILL ME NOW. XD) But I really like this one, it resonates agreeably with its original name, it's not pretentious or tongue-twisty, and it fits. God bless the Tolkien folks at fail-fandomanon. (Right, like I have the least bit of anonymity when I go there asking for help on this.)

hee. This story will have seriousness to it, but it is also a crack-porn series. Anarfea wants Balrog-fucking, and she shall have it.

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

haha don't worry. I know what I signed up for. :)