Hobbit Goodfic

Subject: Hobbit Goodfic
Author: Miah
Posted on: 2014-02-25 06:32:00 UTC

Warning you now that this fic made me cry for at least a half hour, so don't blame me if you read it and it kicks you in the heart.

This fic takes several bits of information vaguely mentioned in canon (book canon, though it seemed to definitely be basing the physical descriptions on the movies), and moves them from being vaguely mentioned facts to being a real thing. Like the difference in hearing a statistic about something awful and knowing someone affected by the awful thing.

The summary is kind of spoilery, skipping it increases the impact of the fic.

It made me really think.

The Names Upon the Harp

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Hobbit Goodfic by Miah on 2014-02-25 06:32:00 UTC

Wow by the Irish Samurai on 2014-03-04 12:30:00 UTC Reply

That was a very powerful piece of writing. Even after I automatically read the summary it still had a hell of a lot of impact while I was reading it.
-curls up in little ball- by Lily Winterwood on 2014-02-26 18:10:00 UTC Reply

This fic hurt enough without me listening to P!nk's "Beam Me Up" while reading it.

(FYI, "Beam Me Up" was written in memory a friend's little daughter, so it was amazingly fitting and made everything 1000000% worse)
You're right. by Huinesoron on 2014-02-26 16:25:00 UTC Reply

Skipping the summary made all the difference. I'm not sure what exactly happens in the book (I'll have to take a look tonight), but while reading this I assumed the names were ancestors of Thorin (it seems in character). Then a couple of things stuck out as odd - the occasional 'and' in the middle, the lack of any Durins, Thrors or Thrains. So I was already primed for a shock - and I got one.

Thank you.

hS
*Sniffles* by Sevenswans on 2014-02-25 19:48:00 UTC Reply

Glaurung it, I must not cry...
Oh wow...ouch. by Halcyon on 2014-02-25 12:50:00 UTC Reply

That was really good actually. I keep remembering how Thorin's voice shook when he accused Thranduil of turning his back to the suffering of Thorin's people. This fic really puts that into context.