Ask the Author: Lora Shouse
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Lora Shouse
Ooh, good question. My first thought was that I don't have one. A lot of what I read is either non-fiction or fantasy that doesn't have so much of a love interest, and many of the love stories I have read just irritate me with people who either obsess over each other too much or who either persist in liking the wrong person or fighting with the person they should like.
However, I did think of one fictional couple I do like: Faramir and Eowyn in The Return of the King. Eowyn was all disappointed that Aragorn didn't connect with her earlier, but after her encounter with the High Nazgul, she met Faramir in the house of healing and they were able to connect with each other there. Although only a tiny portion of the book is dedicated to their story, this is just about the only real romance in the entire Lord of the Rings story. (Even the main part of the story of Aragorn and Arwen is relegated to a short piece in an appendix).
However, I did think of one fictional couple I do like: Faramir and Eowyn in The Return of the King. Eowyn was all disappointed that Aragorn didn't connect with her earlier, but after her encounter with the High Nazgul, she met Faramir in the house of healing and they were able to connect with each other there. Although only a tiny portion of the book is dedicated to their story, this is just about the only real romance in the entire Lord of the Rings story. (Even the main part of the story of Aragorn and Arwen is relegated to a short piece in an appendix).
Lora Shouse
Of course, my next project is the next book in the Not-so-Beautiful Princess Trilogy. Book 2 will be called The Hope of Argentan. It is still in the process of being written. It tells the story of Estel, the third of the four so-called ‘helpers’ predicted by the prophet Tisha in the old time to come to Ettria. His job will be to revive the mostly shattered country of Argentan and once more give it a working government.
Lora Shouse
I have been telling myself bedtime stories since I was a little kid. Sometimes I will repeat the same phrase over and over night after night and not get much further than that, especially when I was working and getting up really early – kind of like, “…he was really tired. (Yeah, me too!) zzz.” But sometimes I will come across an idea that opens out into a really good scene. Occasionally, if I don’t get to write that one fairly soon after thinking it up, it will change over time, hopefully getting better, but not always.
Lora Shouse
Back about the 6th grade I read The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I have wanted to move to Middle Earth ever since. But, of course, you can’t actually do that except in a fantasy story. One night I had a dream about either being or seeing someone who was shut up in a small room in Rivendell and who was sick. The phrase “She Who is Always Sick” somehow got associated with this dream, and I wanted to find out how this situation came about.
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