This is the first of what I hope to be a continuing cycle of drabbly-type
things for LOTR. ( All stories are pulled from both Book Canon and Movie
Canon, and my own, strange but happy little universe. ( I need happy
endings. I just do. ;) Tolkien gave them the sad, bittersweet and
beautiful ending...now I'm going to do my part to give them the happy life
they *should* have been allowed to have! ;) I can't change life, but I
can write alternate endings. (
I decided a long time ago, that life isn't always easy, and it's not often
fair or happy...and it became very important to me to have "happy endings",
or "and life wasn't perfect, but it was darn well pretty fine" endings in
my stories. (
I felt that by Frodo never being able to recover at least enough to enjoy his life, that, in the end, Sauron won, in a way...the Evil was allowed to conquer, or at least overshadow, despite its discontinued existence. That bothered me...a lot. Because of that, and because I'm a sucker for a happy ending, I started imagining a life in which Frodo came back to the Shire, and through the love and attention of his friends and family; and the intense wholesomeness of where he was, Frodo was able to recover to some degree. Hey, if Sam could have his Rosie...why couldn't Frodo have his own Mistress Baggins? NO! WAIT! It's not a Mary Sue...I promise! I *hate* those things! And I swore I'd never write one. ( So far, I've been successful...and it's been a few years now. ( Give me a chance....please?!?
I pulled Melilot from the family trees in the back of ROTK...she doesn't have a birth date or any parents listed, just her name on a side portion of the Brandybuck line. Tolkien created her, and I took the liberty to fill her out a bit. I decided that if Frodo was going to stay in the Shire, he'd have to find something...or someone...to stay for. As such, Melilot came into the picture after some research. From her...well...the rest is in the stories. (
In my world, Frodo still suffers occasionally from his journey, and the scars are still there, ever present reminders of what had been, and what could still be. The Ring would have left its mark...to simply say that "and they all lived happily ever after" is just plain silly. It's not realistic, and honestly would cheapen everything Tolkien worked so hard to create for the world. But, in this universe, the anniversary illnesses begin to fade with time and love, and life takes on a new and brighter quality. All the more precious for what was once thought lost and gone forever. I wanted to give Frodo a second chance, another story wherein he gets his happy ending, and no one has to "leave behind what they most love in order to save it." (paraphrase from ROTK for those who don't know. ( ) I dearly hope that Tolkein would approve. (
I felt that by Frodo never being able to recover at least enough to enjoy his life, that, in the end, Sauron won, in a way...the Evil was allowed to conquer, or at least overshadow, despite its discontinued existence. That bothered me...a lot. Because of that, and because I'm a sucker for a happy ending, I started imagining a life in which Frodo came back to the Shire, and through the love and attention of his friends and family; and the intense wholesomeness of where he was, Frodo was able to recover to some degree. Hey, if Sam could have his Rosie...why couldn't Frodo have his own Mistress Baggins? NO! WAIT! It's not a Mary Sue...I promise! I *hate* those things! And I swore I'd never write one. ( So far, I've been successful...and it's been a few years now. ( Give me a chance....please?!?
I pulled Melilot from the family trees in the back of ROTK...she doesn't have a birth date or any parents listed, just her name on a side portion of the Brandybuck line. Tolkien created her, and I took the liberty to fill her out a bit. I decided that if Frodo was going to stay in the Shire, he'd have to find something...or someone...to stay for. As such, Melilot came into the picture after some research. From her...well...the rest is in the stories. (
In my world, Frodo still suffers occasionally from his journey, and the scars are still there, ever present reminders of what had been, and what could still be. The Ring would have left its mark...to simply say that "and they all lived happily ever after" is just plain silly. It's not realistic, and honestly would cheapen everything Tolkien worked so hard to create for the world. But, in this universe, the anniversary illnesses begin to fade with time and love, and life takes on a new and brighter quality. All the more precious for what was once thought lost and gone forever. I wanted to give Frodo a second chance, another story wherein he gets his happy ending, and no one has to "leave behind what they most love in order to save it." (paraphrase from ROTK for those who don't know. ( ) I dearly hope that Tolkein would approve. (