http://marta-bee.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] marta-bee.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] b2mem2012-02-29 11:22 pm

B2MEM Fic: Nor by Jerusalem

B2MeM Challenge: I-18 (Feanatics challenge: freedom fighters)
Format: prose short story (1,212 words)
Genre: drama, angst
Rating: Teen
Warnings: language
Characters: Maedhros, Caranthir
Pairings: n/a
Summary: "But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King." Caranthir and Maedhros, on the Oath.

Nor by Jerusalem

[identity profile] dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com 2012-03-01 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, Kant... he is exactly who's needed to help pin someone to a troublesome and unwanted bout of conscience and doubt, isn't he?

It's interesting to see Caranthir, for once, as the perspective on the departure from Valinor. Nice to see him having, you know, SOCIAL feelings (he had friends!) and doubts about his role in all of this, and a recognition of the irony: that here they go to find freedom, which will be freedom from all the rest of society, thanks to this oath.

Well done!