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[bedlamsbard]

OH SNAP.

Yay for remembering that I'd actually named the distance between Arn Abedin and Cair Paravel in "Ere Yet We Loose the Legions"; I was going to end up killing something if I'd really had to write Peter, Tirian, and Eustace glowering at each other for six days, which is what I had it down initially as in Dust 7. It's three days ride in "Ere Yet We Loose the Legions", which Peter remarks to Eomer when he's making his decision to put up the Rohirrim for a few days.

*thoughtfully* This is going to be one of those chapters. Maybe I'm starting in the wrong place -- somewhere other than leaving Arn Abedin, I mean. Closer to Cair Paravel, where stuff actually starts happening. I've got a Peter POV and two Tirian POVs, and I switched back to Peter after the two Tirian false starts, but I'm pretty sure I do want the Tirian POV.

*sigh* This would perhaps work better if I didn't have to write a paper this weekend.

Comments

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest you do write the Tirian pov-he's such an opposite from Peter, but you need that, so you can further illustrate that he isn't weak or hopeless, just not a natural-born warrior-king. Plenty of peace-time leaders have *learned* to be effective leaders during war! You've said he's got his own virtues, and the comparison of their two styles, with pithy remarks contributed by various relatives, would be a *good* thing. And those damn crazy Narnians need to take their share of the blame!

I think Peter and Edmund, in particular, are used enough to Machiavellian motives and complicated politics that they'd be uncertain sometimes in how to deal with Tirian, who may have a more simple way of dealing with issues. Simple can be effective, too.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I think it is going to be a Tirian POV, I just need to change the start point, because otherwise it's about 2K of Nothing Happening. *twitches* If Peter talks about Calormene troop movements anymore I'm going to shoot someone.