writing rambles

[bunn]

I am trying to finish off my first Tolkien reverse summer bang story, which is about a slight AU Idril and Tuor.  I hadn't written Idril before (have written Tuor before, but he was a sealion skinchanger then, so arguably not very canon either!) 

I like the idea, and I'm over the minimum word-count, but somehow the story hasn't quite taken wing. 

I think what I'm struggling with is that Tuor and Idril have neither of them done a thing wrong in their entire lives, so far as I can tell, and are also enormously competent. I do like a competent character, but a character with weaknesses is perhaps easier to relate to.   Or maybe it's just a 3/4 done stall and I just need to get the end of it finished.  

Comments

[bunn]

Yes, I agree. I don't think Nargothrond and Gondolin, or Orodreth and Turgon, were in any way equivalent.

Tbh, I'm not convinced that evacuating Gondolin would have gone smoothly either. If Turgon had marched all his guys out in order to the coast (right past Glaurung in Nargothrond, presumably), then what? I guess you'd have a larger, stronger Havens of Sirion, but presumably Morgoth would have some idea of its location.