Hi, welcome to our fan-fiction website. It’s a work in progress. And no, we do not give legal advice to fanfic writers being pursued by copyright lawyers or anyone else.
About us
Flo and Katy are obsessed by Lord of the Rings. We’ve been friends for almost 20 years. We met when we were both practicing solicitors (we’re both doing different things these days). When Flo made a throwaway comment that Katy should call her (then unborn) daughter Berúthiel—that’s when the friendship became lifelong.
This project all started in 2019, on a whim (actually as a joke). We had both read the Appendices to Lord of the Rings closely, and had noted that Boromir was not particularly interested in marriage. We came up with a theory as to why this was. Our theory might also have been influenced by us discussing how best to deal with a couple of particularly irritating acquaintances.
However, when we started writing his story, we realised there were other things we had to work out first, and most particularly, that there were a lot of gaps in the chapter ‘The Steward and the King’ in The Return of the King. It’s almost like Tolkien gave a dot-point rough sketch of Aragorn’s return. (We suspect Tolkien’s main interest was in Elves and Hobbits, not Men).
Our main story sought to fill in some gaps in the narrative. We doubt that Tolkien meant for these gaps to be filled in this way, although we’ve been very careful—nothing we’ve written is inconsistent with the main narrative (canon). It ended up as a tale dealing with Éowyn, Faramir, Éomer, his (canonical) wife Lothíríel (daughter of Prince Imrahil) and their children.
Éowyn and Faramir have one canonical son—Elboron—and we have outlined his difficulties in having two heroes as parents.
But we have also given them a lot of other children, and played with different genres in our writing: Austen romances, Victorian romances, detective stories, spy novels, harem dramas. We’ve drawn on influences from George Orwell, T.E. Lawrence, Terry Pratchett, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, Monty Python, and many others.