[Saxony Tarn]

Seven Pages -- yee-ha! You creatures of the night have sure been busy while i've been busy pounding away at plot complications (well, okay, a few aerial shots of Mordor, a nice dogfight in a gusty wind area, and some assorted voodoo pins tidily stuck into the hero) and i can say with greater certainty that the end of my tale may well be in sight (not just the glowing eyeballs of the dragon at the other end of the tunnel) ...which means that the beta-editing begins! Uff-da!

Glad to see that some brave souls have taken up the banner and tossed out some bait. Not to be outdone as a carnivorous graveyard beast, i'll elect to gnaw on a few:

Monsters, well, let's see... i guess you could count Skheel as a monster, since she's half Orc, but she's one of the main Cast, so technically she's a character (but it's that half monster edge that makes her such fun) Then again, when you consider that the main hero of this epic-under-construction is well known from Tolkein for being his own worst enemy, Boromir doesn't really need to have any "monsters" to play opposite, he's got Ego, Id, and Guilty Conscience lying in wait for him around the next dark corner (and all played by Bean but IMNSHO he's got the range for it)

i suppose that makes Meannalle Sidhe the cherry on top of this belly-buster ice cream sundae. So how would he go about defeating his own worst enemy? Oops, better let you read that part for yourselves!

In other news, i finally got a better visualization of the Dwarf in the party -- he was sort of the hold-out, the one i couldn't see well enough to sketch. So here's a side dish for you:

1) Bit characters that take over the plot and shove the heroes out of the way? (in one story i had to be careful of giving a character a name, for once i did, that started a new plot tangent)

2) Characters whom you intend for a larger role, but they just refuse to let you bring them forward? Example from "Trust Me" -- i have reference sketches and actors cast for 4 of the 5 major players, but Náin the Dwarf i have only the barest of descriptions for, can't figure out who would play him in a movie (given that Rhys-Davies is already playing Gimli) and only recently determined the color of his hair this past weekend.

i figure Náin will get over his Dwarven reticence by the beta-edit. Anyone else have an under- or over-performing character they'd like to share?

s.t.

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