Specimen, by Elleth

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
O67: In a Manner of Speaking: Skeletons in the Closet, Injuries: Stomach Ache
Format: Drabble
Genre: (morbid) humor
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Medical procedures, crawlies
Characters: Idhlinn (OFC Fëanorian healer), OMC
Pairings: N/A
Summary: The way to a woman's heart... (for GG, Steel and Pandë for their betaing help and encouragement involving Idhlinn's fic. ^^ Thank you.)


Idhlinn's brow furrowed. "You expect gratitude."

The hunter's face crumpled in dismay at her tone, not the obvious joy he had expected. The carcass he had brought dropped to the floor with a clank of armour.

"I am grateful," she said quickly, nodding. "I was assuming everyone believed I spoke in jest. Put it on the table."

That done, Idhlinn stripped the creature."Interesting. I hoped for a male specimen." The hunter, a hand on his stomach, fled when she set the scalpel on the orc's chest for the first incision, humming, and fondly glanced at her dermestid jar. "Soon."

Comments

[grey_gazania]

Now you've got me curious, but my google-fu is failing me - who is Amanda?

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Among the actors who regularly were suited up as orcs in the movies was one woman, Amanda. According to the Making of TTT, she was the orc to whom Saruman addressed the order to send out the warg riders. And in one of the features one of the assistant directors, IIRC, said if he wanted Amanda herself while in the set of the Helm's Deep battle, he had to follow her voice, as the Uruk Hai costumes made it impossible for him to identify her in any other way.

BTW, the child who depicted Eldarion was the son of the orc with the whip outside Shelob's lair when they found Frodo's body, and the one whose warg steed carried Aragorn off the cliff. One guy who reminded me of a Samoan was a servant to Saruman in TTT and the rider of an Oliphaunt in RotK, a fact I'd guessed but was confirmed on research.