Thanks LMP! :: pats self on back :: w/ regards to him addressing himself by a patronymic, almost in a drill-sergeant sort of way, just seemed like something he'd do. i'd like to think i've done a good job of infiltrating his head (snuck in much the way the Ring did B) )
On interlacing -- exactly -- i'd have to dig Ace of Cups out of the bookshelf to check, but the camera shifts as the plot shifts, it's just that the chapters for the most part encompass the doings of the day.
On ending -- ah, well, with regard to Bor' in Purgatory anyway, as i very likely mentioned earlier in the thread after one too many mugs, i have a few good ideas in mind, and was planning to let the folks who volunteered to "test-read" the tale vote on Boromir's fate (and i'd total up the votes and construct an ending with the input, ranging from "let him keep his new life" to "put him back in the waterfall")Personally, i'd like him to transcend out of Purgatory and move on to the next phase of existence, but i don't know... has he demonstrated to the readers that he's learned something from this life? (if not, well, he may be stuck there for quite some time...)
As far as tying up loose ends goes, that's why i'll take this opportunity to thank Tolkein for doing all that extra work, as the appendices pretty much helped write this tale -- kept me on track chronologically as far as who was where when (very important) and kept me from dropping possible uncomfortable encounters... he just got reconciled w/ the other Hobbits, where it is now. (Now everybody believes Pippin!)
Which was quite a thought experiment -- how WOULD Sam and Frodo have reacted? i'd like to think i did them justice too...
But that's the whole essence of a "what-if" tale!
s.t.
|_|) <-- character-evolution moment-of-truth staring me in the face to be written tonight. i need this drink!
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<-- who, me? Take the Ring? Betray the Fellowship?? Nah -- couldn't be ME, i'm too cute...
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