I started dying at Tauriel calling Thorin ‘my guy’ and haven’t stopped
Heeeeeeey my guy, looking good, looking… a lot less dead-ish. All right? *finger guns* heeeeeey uh, yeah, cool beans… so um, if you could just refrain from making with the stabbity, could you point me in the direction of… what. what – is there something on my face? What?!? WHAT the HELL IS SO FUNNY.
So I’ve been re-skimming some LotR in between looking for new books to read and Boromir mentions his brother like, three times in the Council of Elrond. And I realize it’s dramatic foreshadowing shit, but consider (modern au apparently) Boromir who just talks about his brother all the time and has so many pictures:
“Hobbits like poetry? My brother won a poetry contest in third grade!!! You know who’d love to hear more about Dwarves? My brother. Gosh, I can’t wait until we all get to Minas Tirith so I can show you all the best things about my city and you can meet my brother.”
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“Yeah, I’ve seen Boromir, he’s a great dude,” says Eomer, “but I hear he talks about his brother a lot?”
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“How do I know you’ve actually met my brother?” asks Faramir. “And how do you know who I am?”
“… I have seen probably a hundred pictures of you and heard the stories behind all of them,” says Frodo.
“Ah,” says Faramir, resigned. “Yeah, okay, you’ve met him.”
According to those early drafts published by Tolkien’s son, Trotter has basically the same badass dialogue and “I could kill you in a second” attitude as Aragorn.
Just imagine what we could have gotten:
Trotter is not some Tyrion-Lannister-style badass or axe-wielding Gimli. He’s a lil hobbit with big clumsy wooden feet and all the fighting skills of a seven-year-old who just struts around like he’s a 6-foot tall master swordsman heir of Isildur.
Like a chihuahua who believes he’s a mastiff.
Also, in that first draft he’s called “Trotter” because his wooden feet make loud “Clop-trot” sounds whenever he walks (ideal for ranger stealth missions.)
TL; DR: I need a Lord of the Rings AU where everything is the same but Strider is replaced by Trotter