It's been very much a case of 'How dare he not love Legolas! His poor baby's all over there crying and Thranduil's just being mean blah blah blah he's such a bastard'. *sighs* For the most part, the reviewers have been phenomenal, but on occasion...
I want them to reconcile as well, but before In the Garden was written, they weren't. I had a plan. It was going to happen. I was going to rip my own heart out and stamp on it and be like 'see what you made me do?!' because regardless of anything, Legolas is - and will always be - Thranduil's biggest trigger. Then I actually thought about it and calmed down and decided that, no, a happy ending had to apply in this case or I'd never be able to live with myself or show my face in fandom ever again. It was going to be that awful.
I've always felt Thranduil was a good parent. I hated the abused!Legolas trope in Lord of the Rings fandom back in the day, and I'm not overly fond of the fact that it's carried over into The Hobbit either. There isn't enough good parent!Thranduil fic out there, and damn it, if I have to write it myself... I've also been very tempted by this prompt and the potential for character building it holds. I'm less interested in what the Dwarves think (frankly, I think Thorin and his company have little to no sense between them and that Gandalf wanted Bilbo along as babysitter) than in Legolas' reaction.
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Date: 2014-01-25 12:18 am (UTC)From:I want them to reconcile as well, but before In the Garden was written, they weren't. I had a plan. It was going to happen. I was going to rip my own heart out and stamp on it and be like 'see what you made me do?!' because regardless of anything, Legolas is - and will always be - Thranduil's biggest trigger. Then I actually thought about it and calmed down and decided that, no, a happy ending had to apply in this case or I'd never be able to live with myself
or show my face in fandom ever again. It was going to be that awful.I've always felt Thranduil was a good parent. I hated the abused!Legolas trope in Lord of the Rings fandom back in the day, and I'm not overly fond of the fact that it's carried over into The Hobbit either. There isn't enough good parent!Thranduil fic out there, and damn it, if I have to write it myself...
I've also been very tempted by this prompt and the potential for character building it holds. I'm less interested in what the Dwarves think (frankly, I think Thorin and his company have little to no sense between them and that Gandalf wanted Bilbo along as babysitter) than in Legolas' reaction.