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rocky41_7Normally I'm not at all into modern Tolkien AUs but I was thinking the other day about a modern AU where Thorin is an aspiring folk musician (or at least somebody who enjoys it as a hobby) and he moonlights at clubs and such to perform under the pseudonym "Oakenshield." He develops a biting repartee/reluctant romantic interest in Thranduil, who frequents the clubs and during one of their back-and-forths challenges Thranduil to come up and perform something. Thranduil takes the bait ofc because as it happens he's a musician as well, and Thorin expected something classical or folksy but it turns out that what Thranduil is really good at is hard rock and Thorin needs like a month to recover from that.
Jokes because Thranduil actually loves doing classical and Elven folk music, he just wanted to fuck with Thorin and it was totally worth it for the look on Thorin's face when he let out the first good hard-rock scream.
Then I started getting actually attached to this AU... with Thranduil using music as a channel for his grief over his wife, and the pain of raising his child alone and Legolas never knowing his mother, ("Bones" definitely went in there for this reason--"I can't exist without you/I can't do this without you/I'm dying here without you/I want to lie with your bones forever"), and bonding with Thorin over a sense of loss, also lmao if Legolas is still a minor and Thorin has to like, meet and interact with Thranduil's kid/teen. It's been at least ten years since Niwei died so he's "healed" but also it's v clear he never really got over it (hence his frequency at the bars) and Thorin can maybe help with that.
If/when they do get involved, Thorin so absolutely writes songs about Thranduil and he never says that's what it is but Thranduil can hear like, a single verse and know. That's about him. He's very smug about it. Sometimes Thorin goes back and changes the lyrics just to spite him.
Edit: Also, possibly Thranduil was reasonably well-known, especially locally, back in the day, and while he did release a few more songs after Niwei's death (virtually all of which centered on that loss), the stress of grief and caring for an infant prevented him from pursuing the career further. However, Thorin is able to look him up and find Thranduil's old music.
Jokes because Thranduil actually loves doing classical and Elven folk music, he just wanted to fuck with Thorin and it was totally worth it for the look on Thorin's face when he let out the first good hard-rock scream.
Then I started getting actually attached to this AU... with Thranduil using music as a channel for his grief over his wife, and the pain of raising his child alone and Legolas never knowing his mother, ("Bones" definitely went in there for this reason--"I can't exist without you/I can't do this without you/I'm dying here without you/I want to lie with your bones forever"), and bonding with Thorin over a sense of loss, also lmao if Legolas is still a minor and Thorin has to like, meet and interact with Thranduil's kid/teen. It's been at least ten years since Niwei died so he's "healed" but also it's v clear he never really got over it (hence his frequency at the bars) and Thorin can maybe help with that.
If/when they do get involved, Thorin so absolutely writes songs about Thranduil and he never says that's what it is but Thranduil can hear like, a single verse and know. That's about him. He's very smug about it. Sometimes Thorin goes back and changes the lyrics just to spite him.
Edit: Also, possibly Thranduil was reasonably well-known, especially locally, back in the day, and while he did release a few more songs after Niwei's death (virtually all of which centered on that loss), the stress of grief and caring for an infant prevented him from pursuing the career further. However, Thorin is able to look him up and find Thranduil's old music.
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