#Impa is Gandalf

[seren-knight01]

Lord of the Rings AU where Link is Aragorn. OR he’s Beren and Zelda is Luthien.

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[bugcatcherwill]

Found something funny while playing TOTK no spoilers for story but I had the moblin mask and went up to a sliver moblin and when I was taking a photo of it, it held up its hand like it was going to remove the mask but didn’t that’s when I realized: this must be how link and the other monsters around link’s height must feels next to sledge

YES Sledge just absolutely towers over everyone else. When it had to go inside Impa's house when they all were in Kakariko I imagined the scene in Lord of the Rings where Gandalf is absolutely struggling to walk through Bilbo's house. I'll admit it's a little difficult to write character interactions when it's twice as tall as anyone else in a given room which is why I often find excuses to let Sledge sit/kneel.

I'm excited for when I eventually write Sledge meeting Sidon for the first time because it'll finally be able to not have to kneel down to talk to someone else (besides maybe Ganondorf) lmao

[ao3feed-tolkien]

The White Wraith of Eriador

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by hyrulebaelfire

After the untimely death of his parents, Frodo Baggins' new legal guardians are at their wits' end with what to do with the sullen child.

They believe all their problems are solved when a Dunedain Ranger in Bree says he's looking for students, and happily send him off.

There was far more going on than they could have imagined, however. And soon Frodo finds himself in a strange distant kingdom called Hyrule, training to become a monster hunter--or, as his new guardian Colin puts it, a witcher.

Words: 1091, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen

Characters: Frodo Baggins, Link (Legend of Zelda), Impa (Legend of Zelda), Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf | Mithrandir, Colin (Legend of Zelda)

Relationships: Bilbo Baggins & Frodo Baggins, Frodo Baggins & Impa

Additional Tags: Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Witcher AU, witcher!Frodo, Hyrule needs some witchers let's be perfectly honest here, no witcher characters here sorry just using the concept in a different world, sorry dandelion|jaskier enthusiasts, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, just a little shy of witcher canon typical violence, but not until later on, Trial Of The Grasses (The Witcher), Combat Training, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe-Crossover, using MacHale's flumes as an excuse for why this all fits together, POV Frodo Baggins, Frodo Baggins Whump, Whump, Angst, No Smut, No Romance, The Great Calamity (Legend of Zelda), Ganon is an asshole, Badass Morally Grey Frodo Baggins, If that's your sort of thing, rating may change later, Non-Consensual Body Modification, aka They're Witchers So Obviously, Body Horror, just a little probably, aroace character, implied aroace frodo, Asexual Character

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[frabjous-fragment]

undertale but asgore is king harkinian and frisk is cd-i link and toriel is cd-i impa and undyne is cd-i zelda and sans and papyrus are cd-i mario and luigi and he's frozen in there and that we're out here and that he's the sheriff and that we're frozen out here and that we're in there and i just remembered we're out here and gandalf the grey and gandalf the white and monty python and the holy grail's black knight and benito mussolini and the blue meanie and cowboy curtis and jambi the genie robocop the terminator captain kirk and darth vader lo pan superman every single power ranger bill s. preston and theodore logan spock the rock doc ock and hulk hogan and you find geoffrey and you FIND geoffrey and you FIND geoffrey AND YOU FIND geoffrey and quick and nimble and quick and nimble and quick and nimble and quick and nimble and quick and nimble and knuckles featuring dante from the devil may cry series

[ao3feed-thehobbit]

The Hobbit: A Journey Into the Wild

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by a_summer_mind

There once slept a hobbit, in a hole in the ground, who was meant for so much more. Now, with the deep voice of an exiled-king whispering in his ear, he wakes to a world that needs him... though he can't remember why.

  This is a Crossover between Zelda BOTW and The Hobbit, in which Bilbo = Link, Thorin = Zelda, and Smaug = Calamity Ganon... and an adventure begins!

Words: 2235, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Balin (Tolkien), Ori (Tolkien), Thranduil (Tolkien), Nori (Tolkien), Kíli (Tolkien), Fíli (Tolkien), Dwalin (Tolkien), Bofur (Tolkien), Dori (Tolkien), Bombur (Tolkien), Bifur (Tolkien), Tauriel (Hobbit Movies), Óin (Tolkien), Glóin (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Legolas Greenleaf, Thorin's Company, Smaug (Tolkien), Dwarves of Erebor, Erebor - Character

Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Kíli (Tolkien)/Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)

Additional Tags: Legend of Zelda References, BAMF Bilbo Baggins, Bilbo as Link, Thorin Oakenshield Is a Dork, Thorin is Zelda, Gandalf Meddles, and is standing in for Impa, Eventual Romance, Eventual Smut, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Swords & Sorcery, Emotionally Constipated Thorin, Eventual Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Elves, Men - Freeform, Rito, but they're Eagles, Divine Beasts, Dwarves, and their mischief, Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions

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[gman-003]

Skyward Sword play log excerpts

Oh hey, guess who’s still alive? I kind of got sucked into a vortex of freelance projects and moving, and I had completely no time to work on this. I didn’t even queue up the stuff I’d pre-written, things were so hectic. But it seems to be stabilizing now, more or less. I’m not going to try to commit to a schedule yet but I’ll still update on a Tuesday when I do.

While playing, I kept a log of thoughts and experiences, to aid the writing process. Since I'm in the middle of playing, I tend to write in an abbreviated, stream-of-consciousness style. Sometimes it turns out kind of funny. I thought I'd go ahead and share some of the better bits.

And then I swear we are DONE with this fucking game and I’ll be posting about Minish Cap next.

Side note: start with six hearts? wtf worst zelda ever

Six notes in and I'm already declaring it the worst game in the series. I am the *best* at games criticism.

Do the Loftwings not get names? Very bad writing to say "you have a close bond" with a nameless bird. Even just "Crimson" would have been something.

I continued to refer to Link's Loftwing as "Crimson" throughout my notes, because seriously, why don't they have names, if they're supposed to be so important? And why couldn't you just let the player pick a name, the way you could name your horse in earlier games. I judged this complaint too trivial to waste time expounding on, but still, it bugged me.

The idea of a sentient spirit embedded in the Master Sword (this isn't the Master Sword yet but I'll be fucked sideways if the game doesn't end up with that happening) is cool

I also don't filter out my profanity when jotting down notes. "Fucked sideways" is an abbreviated form of "fucked with a sideways rake", which doesn't actually make much more sense, come to think of it. I'm not sure what axis you rotate it on to go sideways...

An invisible voice (a new one this time) tells me to hit it with a skyward strike. I initially thought this was a blatant trap to release some ancient evil, and tried to find ways to bypass it but no, that's actually what you're supposed to do.

Seriously, I thought hammering the sealing spike home was a trap to release an unspeakable horror that would form the rest of the game, and was looking for a sneaky way around it for a secret ending. Nope. You're supposed to listen to the invisible voices. That's practically the moral of *Skyward Sword*, since Zelda also triumphs through the power of listening to invisible voices.

minesweeper in a zelda game? I was not ready. Or actually I was. Perfect beginner game on third try, moved on.

Do not ask how I got to be so good at Minesweeper. It would ruin my hardcore-gamer cred. I'm just naturally good at logic puzzles - that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

game stubbornly continues to give me rupees (full wallet) instead of hearts (1/2 heart left)

You'd think eleven thousand words complaining about a single Zelda game would be enough, but no, I had to cut a lot.

technoblins are constantly blocking me. checking strategy guide for how to not get blocked. Strategy guide useless

This would not be the last time the strategy guide lied to me.

woo vent crawling. expect headcrabs?

wtf groose you live in the sky how do you not know what BIRDS are

 so impa's an angel now. and also gandalf

fucking water temple

This will likely not be the last time this phrase makes an appearance.

Tentalus is supposed to look scary? It looks like a plastic toy teenage girls attach to their cell phones

hey ghirahim, all you had to do to find the second time gate was follow Link stealth-like and wait for Fi to remind him

A lot of game villains would do well to spy on the hero and overhear their advisor characters telling them exactly what to do.

wasn't hyrule polytheistic?

Seriously, can someone make sense of Hyrulian theology? Is Hylia a higher or lower goddess than Farore/Nayru/Din? How is she supposed to fit into the creation myth? If the Hyrulians have a race-specific guardian deity, do the other races have the same? THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE WANT ANSWERED.

obligatory zelda tennis boss

Again, we'll probably see this note in pretty much every play log.

tadtone (eugh) search goddammit it's not even a search, it's a bunch of "solve my maze" bullshit

Superman 64 is my go-to reference for this particularly stupid and annoying minigame archetype. Does anyone like it when a game puts the fun on hold and makes you literally jump through hoops?

Oh sure THIS GUY recognizes me as a hero right off the bat, no stupid PROVE THY WORTH quest

I don't remember exactly who THAT GUY was. One of the dragons, probably.

LD-Link-16 start your theories

In reference to a robot in the mines section, near the dragon. But I never actually came up with a good theory for this, although it *is* evidence of prior Links in the timeline, which implies *Skyward Sword* isn't the first one.

[alixlestrange]

Ao3 Feed The hobbit (Middle Earth)

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by a_summer_mind

There once slept a hobbit, in a hole in the ground, who was meant for so much more. Now, with the deep voice of an exiled-king whispering in his ear, he wakes to a world that needs him... though he can't remember why.

  This is a Crossover between Zelda BOTW and The Hobbit, in which Bilbo = Link, Thorin = Zelda, and Smaug = Calamity Ganon... and an adventure begins!

Words: 2235, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Balin (Tolkien), Ori (Tolkien), Thranduil (Tolkien), Nori (Tolkien), Kíli (Tolkien), Fíli (Tolkien), Dwalin (Tolkien), Bofur (Tolkien), Dori (Tolkien), Bombur (Tolkien), Bifur (Tolkien), Tauriel (Hobbit Movies), Óin (Tolkien), Glóin (Tolkien), Gandalf | Mithrandir, Legolas Greenleaf, Thorin's Company, Smaug (Tolkien), Dwarves of Erebor, Erebor - Character

Relationships: Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Kíli (Tolkien)/Tauriel (Hobbit Movies)

Additional Tags: Legend of Zelda References, BAMF Bilbo Baggins, Bilbo as Link, Thorin Oakenshield Is a Dork, Thorin is Zelda, Gandalf Meddles, and is standing in for Impa, Eventual Romance, Eventual Smut, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Swords & Sorcery, Emotionally Constipated Thorin, Eventual Bilbo Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Elves, Men - Freeform, Rito, but they're Eagles, Divine Beasts, Dwarves, and their mischief, Crossover, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions

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