June of Doom & Gloom - Week 3 discussion and etc. post

[huinare]

A slightly belated welcome to the third week of this here.

Have another update/progress/discussion post thing. Any progress in your writing, frustrations, new plot bunnies? Feel free to gab. General discussion question (all welcome, participants or otherwise): Are there particular characters you tend to victimize select more frequently as subject matter when writing sad, scary, or otherwise not-lighthearted stories? or particular groups/settings/time periods? Put another way, are there certain characters who just can't seem to catch a break from you in your fanworks?

Comments

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

"Holiness" seemed a bit too lofty, to my mind, given the context. I welcome opinions on that point.

The DM heartily approves of the use of "holiness." In the Pandë!verse, there are plenty of blatant religious references similar to that(cf. Downfallen and Into This Wild Abyss). Prior to writing those, I had read not a few fics that addressed Sauron in Numenor that also played on the religious angle but these heavily (and quite uncomfortably) alluded to Islam in certain imagery. My knee jerk response was to incorporate, ummmm, little nods to another Abrahamic religion that the original author of the source texts embraced. So "your holiness" is spot-on. Mairon is, after all, the high priest.

DM: You could say I was darker version of Elmer Gantry.

All righty then...the DM and I must return to our "doom and gloom" documents. ;^)

p.s. Love the snippet. I now hear Aidan Gillen whenever your Mairon speaks, and I CLEARLY hear that voice here!

[huinare.livejournal.com]

... ummmm, little nods to another Abrahamic religion that the original author of the source texts embraced.

You mean said religion is not infallible? Surely you jest. ;)

I loved both of those stories, but it has been some time since I read them.

"Your holiness" wasn't a reference to any real world religion per se (it evokes the Dalai Lama as much as the Pope for me, when I hear it). The holy varies culturally and even individually so I do find it a plausible (and also satisfyingly jarring) title for priest!Mairon. I thought possibly it was too extreme a title at the chronological point of the story, since I don't see him as having a completely firm hold on things in Númenor just yet. Today I've been pondering keeping it as "your reverence" in this ficlet, and later on in the sequence it will conspicuously become "your holiness." >=D

Thanks much for commenting! I know you (and the DM) are swamped.

p.s. Love the snippet. I now hear Aidan Gillen whenever your Mairon speaks, and I CLEARLY hear that voice here!

Score! Voicecasting success.

[independence1776]

Butting in: I like the "your reverence" now and "your holiness" later; your reasoning makes sense.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Not butting in at all, I asked for opinions. =)