LOTR Rants | Mostly Aralas

a rant abt a lotr fic and rings of power

WELCOMEEEEEEEEE back to a chapter i've been cultivating for a HOT while

originally the third part in my lotr/aralas things i've been thinking abt series, but i didn't end up talking abt anything other than rings of power and a lotr fic so yeah it got renamed and i still had sm fun writing this one <3

so yeah. lets get ito it !!!

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2) hawthorn by aeolianharps

ive been thinking  and i realize now that i've BARELY talked abt this fic??? like i've talked abt the other fic by this author, of men, but i know now that hawthorn >>>>>> of men and i will be taking no arguments

first of all hawthorn is a 50K word 30 chapter aralas fic on ao3 and--------

I CENTER EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF MY LIFE AROUND THIS FIC.

LIKE I LIVE THIS FIC I BREATHE THIS FIC I THINK ABOUT THIS FIC EVERYDAY.

THIS FIC WAS A CULTURAL RESET. THIS FIC FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED ARALAS AS A G E N R E. THE WAY I VIEW THESE CHARACTERS IN FICS IN THE BOOKS IN THE MOVIES IS FOREVER GOING TO BE DIFFERENT BC OF THIS FIC.

THIS FIC REWROTE MY CELLULAR COMPOSITION. LIKE THE LITERAL ATOMS THAT MAKE UP MY BEING HAVE BEEN REARANGED SINCE I READ THIS FIC LIKE MOLECULARLY I AM NOT THE SAME.

ME AND THIS FIC----- WE'RE LIKE THIS 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

THIS FIC AND I ARE ONE. IT LIVES IN MY SOUL IT IS PART OF ME.

THE WAY AEOLIANHARPS WEAVES A STORY OF SUCH EMOTIONAL DEPTH THROUGH CHARACTERS THAT WERE BARELY EXPLORED IN THE CANON---

THE WAY THEY DEPICT LONELINESS, LOVE, IMMORTALITY, DEATH, LIFE, THE NEED TO LIVE AND THE ABSOLUTE LACK OF DESIRE FOR IT AT THE SAME TIME, HEARTBREAK AND SELFISHNESS, DUTY AND FAMILY--------

it is so gorgeous. it is so beautiful. it is a marvel of ao3, imo the greatest fanfic every written and one of the greatest things ever written PERIOD.

this fic turned me into a legolas kinnie. i've read it twice, once on ao3 the day after it was released, the second time on ebooks so i could annotate it and i MARKED THAT SHIT UP w my annotations because i loved it so so so so immeasurably and every line just means so much to me

i think abt the quotes in this fic everyday. one of them will be my first tatoo. this is one of those things that while you read it you FEEL IT IN YOUR CHEST, and your heart just HURTS and feels heavy with the weight of thousands of years of loneliness and need and pure emotion of these characters, espec legolas.

it is just--------------- indescribable. absolutely indescribable.

and i don't think this fic will ever mean so much to anyone as it did to me bc this found me at a point in my life (and found me again upon my reread) where i just REALLY needed to read something like this. legolas as a character is just so----- again, i have no words.

and yes, you will cry. no, you will SOB.

not just in the ending, which is the saddest shit ever, but in the middle. SEVERAL TIMES.

and more tears when you THINK BACK on this fic and just REALIZE the full weight of everything it holds. even more when i reread it and saw all the parallels and foreshadowing......

it's just yeah. yk what i mean?? it's just. its JUST. yeah.

i dont get how someone can write this in like two months and just ✨move on with their lives✨

like idk what aeolianharps was on but like????? i want it

that is all let's move on pls read it.

3) rings of power e3 and 4