Okay,
Two Towers is now up. And as I said I would, I will now tell the story of the "a" in Rohan. As you probably know, I spelled Rohan "Rohn" in the original posting of this BBE. You probably thought this was a mistake. It was, and it was not. Here is how it happened:
This story starts back when I put up the
Fellowship of the Ring. In that story, as you may have noticed if you're picky about such things, I spelled Galadriel "Galadrial." Enter my friend, Joni, who I think I may have mentioned in my author's notes as one of my best friends. And she is. But she's also a crazy fangirl. (Joni, feel free to refute.) She noticed my misspelling, and immediately jumped all over it. This was kind of annoying, as she mentioned much more often than necessary (sorry, honey).
Spelling pestering continued when I wrote for her a fic you will never ever see because it has adult content and was for Joni's enjoyment only. It was about the Elves (whom she loves) and their incredibly screwed up love lives. But I misspelled something else that I can't remember right now, and am too lazy to look up. However, I do remember it was another word where I subsituted an "a" where there should have been an "e" because Joni accused me of favoring the letter "a," which is patently untrue. I love all letters equally.
To prove to her that I didn't favor the letter "a," I left it out of the word "Rohan" in the
Two Towers BBE. Then I gave her a copy, which gave her another heart attack. Unfortunately, I completely forgot to edit what I had written for Joni before posting it on FF.net.
Long story short: The reason "Rohan" had no "a" was because I am spiteful to my friends. Really makes you want to know me, doesn't it?
(Just to let you know, Joni and I play games like this frequently. We really are good friends. Right?)
And now for the fic:
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