White Lady, With Lamp

[altariel]

It was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane.

White Lady, With Lamp

Ithilien, in the Fourth Age

In the years after, so many of them came that a house was built in a tranquil valley where Elves now dwelt. Young men no more, the horror of that past still shaped their desolate present. Elf-song soothed them – but it was she they wanted, Lady Wraithbane, whose deed felled a dread king.

And Éowyn welcomed each of them, and fought for them, and ordered a fair house for them. But their devotion baffled her. She never quite grasped what her husband always knew – that pity was hers too, and the healing love can be strong as well as gentle.

Comments

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

(Part of what I was getting at with the Florence Nightingale allusion: statistician and health reformer, rather than Angel of Scutari.)

ningloreth has Fourth Age Eowyn as a detective rather in Brother Cadfael mode (at Eryn Carantaur) - that's rather fun too, although her 'ship is Legolas/Eowyn, so very AU in that sense and thus might not be your cup of tea...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Wow, what an amazing site. Had no idea those stories existed. I think I'd get too sad reading about F/E breaking up, but it's a great idea for a set of stories.

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

The site is visually stunning - and like a deluxe DVD with extra scenes, Easter eggs, illustrations... (I get the feeling ningloreth's personal M-E is quite strongly rooted in the movieverse, at least visually, so that may be no accident)

For me she needs to do a little more in the early stories to explain just how Eowyn happens to know exactly how to carry out forensic murder investigations (the way Ellis Peters does by making Cadfael both an ex-soldier, so he knows about violent death, and a herbalist so he knows about poisons...) - and also to convince me, not that Faramir might have been gay, but that he would have married Eowyn knowing that - but she writes entertainingly enough that when I'm in the mood I can handwave the setup and enjoy the ride... (Nothing to do with Teh Hot Elf Sex. Honest. Ahem.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

(Nothing to do with Teh Hot Elf Sex. Honest. Ahem.)

A little Hot Elf Sex makes up for a lot.