http://marta-bee.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] marta-bee.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] b2mem2012-03-17 03:34 pm

B2MEM Fic: The Point of the Sword

B2MeM Challenge: Crossover/G51 ("with an action/adventure film) Games People Play/G51 ("King of the Hill")

Yes, I know it's "a melodrama of manners," but it was the swordplay that originally stole my heart. That counts as action, of a sort.

Format: prose short story (1,323 Words)
Genre: crossover
Rating: teen (for implied sexuality)
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Aragorn, Richard, Alec
Relationship: Richard/Alec
Beta: [livejournal.com profile] just_ann_now
Summary: A Dunedain Ranger walks into a (Riverside) bar. (A Tolkien/Kushner crossover set not long after the events of Swordspoint.)

The Point of the Sword

[identity profile] just-ann-now.livejournal.com 2012-03-18 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
First off, I'm madly in love with the title *grin*

I found this very intriguing, Richard and Strider almost (but not quite) splitting hairs over the concept of sellswording (by whatever name): Strider the idealist believing his is more honorable because he does it for a purpose larger than himself, and Richard, the pragmatist,preferring his because it is his means of supporting himself and those he loves.