#echo-bleu

Digging up this old prompt for @maedhrosmaglorweek day 3! Have both of them.

"You will jingle as you walk," says Maedhros, "they will hear you coming for miles."

Maglor laughs, and tosses his head so that the dangling silver earrings chime. "A poor minstrel I will make, if my jewellery plays more music than I! No, Nelyo, these will not do." He removes them carefully, and lays them aside in the growing pile of precious metal heaped upon the side-table.

Maedhros, sitting cross-legged on the stone floor of his chambers in Himring, watches him with a faint little frown. "You must choose something," he says; "you cannot go to the feast dressed as plainly as a Vanya monk."

"My songbird's voice is adornment enough," Maglor says blithely, "and anyhow I did not come here to pick out my own gems. We must make some progress on deciding what to bring as gifts."

Dear Anon,

that is a wonderful question! You will shoot me a message, if you found the answer, yes? :-)

But all jokes aside, it is a little tricky to find information on Georges due to several reasons. He never wrote his own Memoirs, he has always very gladly occupied his fathers shadow and no historian has yet decided to dedicate their professional life to Georges. If you just search for the term “Georges Lafayette” most results will deal with the relation between George Washington and La Fayette. Still, there are some resources I can recommend if you want to do some research.

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Volume 1 and Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Volume 2. Both books were written by La Fayette’s secretary Auguste Levasseur and give great insight into La Fayette’s Tour of 1824/25 – including Georges, who accompanied his father.

Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette by Jules Germain Cloquet. Cloquet was the family’s physician and a friend. The focus of this books lies once again with the older La Fayette but nonetheless offers a view of Georges and his position within the family.

Life of Madame de Lafayette by Virginie, Marquise de Lasteyrie du Sallant is primarily concerned with Adrienne but, for example, details Georges’ whereabouts and “journeys” during Adrienne’s imprisonment in France.

The best thing there is, are letters. Sadly, Georges’ letters have never been compiled and published but that does not have to stop us! Founders Online has a number of letters about and by Georges (here and here). The letters that are written about Georges are mainly between Alexander Hamilton and George Washington during the early 1790’s when Georges was in America and later between La Fayette and Thomas Jeffersons (but also James Madison and others) when they updated each other regularly about their families. The Library of Congress has a few handwritten letters by Georges to George Washington (and a few others). Georges Washington’s Mount Vernon also had a few letters from Georges to members of the Washington-Parke-Custis-family, but as far as I knew they are only partially digitalized.

The University of Chicago has a number of letters by Georges La Fayette – quite the treasure chest. Same goes for the Archives départementales de Seine-et-Marne. The family’s manor La Grange is located in this department and the archives have a webpage and a great PDF-file on the family. Again, La Fayette is placed in the spotlight but there are also a few but highly interesting tidbits about Georges.

Then we have the Paris Archives, État civil reconstitué (XVIe-1859) in France. There you find documents like birth-, marriage- and death-certificates.

Last but not least, Georges’ political opinions are partially documented in the Archives Parlementaires (huge thank-you to @echo-bleu for helping me finding these.)

From we will make this place our home, a lesson in botany:

“What’s this flower?” I would ask, pointing to a little plant with small white flowers and heart-shaped seedpods, and Linher told me it was called shepherd’s purse; or a taller plant growing on the roadside with long feathery leaves and heads of creamy-white flowers – that was yarrow, and Linher said there were old stories about it healing wounds made by iron; or a plant like a nettle with circlets of pink flowers – that was red dead-nettle, and quite harmless.

And from my other WIP, coirë:

“Look, Russo,” he exclaimed suddenly, leaning forward. “Even here there are flowers!”

New shoots surrounded the slender trees; bladelike leaves pushed bravely up to colour the bank green – and, yes, there were flowers: delicate petals of ice-white, suspended like hanging lanterns upon finely-wrought stems.    

It was not a surprise to learn that his uncle’s people held them dear, the first promise of winter’s ending; but it was the flower’s tenacity that struck Russandol.

(there are more but these are the best ones i think)

I've fallen face first back into the lotr fandom recently and i'm again obsessed with Faramir so i'm happy to find that i'm not alone

If you have any blog/fic/art/whatever recs for me I'd love to find more Faramir lovers out there!

hello!! thank you so much! and welcome to the faramir frenzy 🫡🫡🫡

some fellow faramir lovers off the top of my head: @emyn-arnens @liridi @rarepairnation @starry-mantle @bitchfaramir @hectomache

you can also go through the notes in this post and see all the blogs there!

RULES: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I'm restricting this to stories that have at least 100 words of draft and that I've thought about in the last month, because otherwise we'd be here all day 😂 The last few months have been difficult for me in terms of writing, but I'm slowly getting my feet under me and would love to talk about my projects!

Double Fake Dating (Geraskefer)

King Radovid Saves the Day

I Would Break My Lute For You (unspoken words of love)

Ticcing

Jim Please Stop Almost Getting Killed, Sincerely, Spock

Spirk fog (sitting on the dock of the bay)

Renfri fic (Buttercups and Butcherbirds)

Mark Watney Enjoys Earth

Letters to Maglor

Yennskier Kidfic

Radovid Fakes His Death

Auch wenn ihm wohl gewahr war, dass man ihn bei Hofe für seine Wahl verlachen würde, so war es ihm doch ganz gleich, denn keine konnte in seiner Betrachtung schöner sein als Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, die, obgleich die Natur sie nicht in Fülle mit den Attributen beschenkt hatte, die für gewöhnlich eines Mannes Herz zum Schlagen bringen, in seinen Augen doch unvergleichlich war. Sie war mutig, edel, standhaft, und schön— wunderschön.

Although he was aware that he would be laughed at at court on account of his choice, he did not care at all, for none could, in his opinion, be more beautiful than Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, who, despite Nature not having so generously bestowed her with the attributes which usually cause a man's heart to beat faster, was incomparable in his eyes regardless. She was brave, noble, steadfast and beautiful— gorgeous.

From a certain AU, instigated by @nordleuchten which is going to make two dead people spin in ther graves.