Snowflake 5

[keiliss]

Day 5 - Rec fanworks
Fan recs. Oh lord, now I need to find links :( Okay, there's Welcome to Imladris by SavioBriion which is about the early days of Imladris with gorgeous touches and such a fresh eye for an old story. And there's Pieces by AiElbereth, a great A/U --- Erond/Lindir, modern times, ballet. No really, even if you're not really into AUs, you need at least to look at it. Then Red Lasbelin wrote me Can't Take My Eyes off You for the 2015 MSV, it's Erestor and Glorfindel finally in Valinor and how it's not paradise but they're together. And Talullah wrote the most wonderful ofc in her lotr_community Yule fic, Home for Midwinter. Just so beautiful!

There'd be more but I'm too asleep to go look for more links.

Comments

[wendelah1]

A ballet AU? I'll take a look but I admit it's hard for me to picture it.

I'm such an old fuddy-duddy.

[keiliss]

LOL, I also thought 'ballet??' but then I got curious and had to look and she makes it work :D

[ysilme]

Thanks for the recs, they look intriguing! I was quite surprised about a ballet AU, but a first glimpse makes me want to read it soon. Also evokes faint memories of a beloved teenager book series I loved... *lol* (Although that one was about girls doing ballet, not boys of no matter what provenience ;o) )

[keiliss]

Aww, did you also go through a stage with the ballet stories? My early teens involved a lot of ballet and horse stories :D I was so surprised at the concept of the fic I had to look and so far it's been pretty much unique.

[ysilme]

:D Totally! I even did both myself; ballett years before I read the books (age 5-8 and again for a year at age 22), and during the horse book years I tried saving enough pocket money for lessons, but didn't manage; but I rode for about a year at age 21 or so.
I've come across the odd Thranduil-based moden AU that sounded intriguing (but then wasn't really), but certainly not with those two! :)

[keiliss]

I did ballet and loved it plus I rode for a few years (was lucky, my dad knew someone with horses, otherwise it would have been out of reach for me too) Anything about ballet or horses take me straight back to those years :)