Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[selenak]

Wels(c)h: Yes, it's Saxon for "foreigner", which the Saxons invading England used for the local Celts, while the Saxons staying at home thought it was just the term for all those Romans and Roman-descendants next door.

...One king to rule them all, one king to find them, one king to bring them all, and in the--Enlightenment?--bind them.

In the land of Prussia, where the soldiers are.

Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[mildred_of_midgard]

aLOL

(And where the soldiers are not allowed to go to England, and yea, the musicians are also considered as soldiers.

ETA: And also the lame chamberlains.)

Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[selenak]

But Mildred, "diminish and go to the West" is just not a choice for anyone The One King wants to keep around! Also, one does not simply walk into Mordor away from Prussia.

Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[mildred_of_midgard]

If one does not simply walk away from Prussia, who's Frodo? Peter Keith, or Barbarina?

I guess they both came back and found the Shire had been saved, but not for them.

Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[selenak]

Barbarina is clearly Arwen, though. Chooses love and mortality and gets stuck with her choice after her loved died - metaphorically in her case - while the third age continues around her, away from all her kin.

Not sure about Peter as Frodo, though the Shire was definitely saved, and not for him.

Voltaire would like to point out that nobody is allowed to cast him as Tom Bombadil. Heinrich just insists he's not a Ring Wraith, because the Witch King was just a lousy tactician who should have seen Eowyn coming.

Re: Katte's Death: The Documentary Hypothesis

[cahn]

I was dying when I first read this subthread, and I'm dying rereading it now. :PPPPPPP