Frodo keep your secrets parrot8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Thank you, hon!ĭisclaimer: The author makes no claim to owning the rights of anything to do with J.R.R. ![]() I'd also like to thank Trilliah for the bunny that blossomed into this fic. ![]() Summary: A night caught at Bag End, and what comes of it.Īuthor's Notes: Written for empressaurelius (as a replacement story) for the Lord of the Rings FPS Secret Santa she wanted Frodo/Sam, with a bit of dirty talk and/or kink, if it wasn't too much trouble, and I do hope she likes this little gift that is, uh, not exactly what she wanted, but close enough, I think. During the late-nineteenth century, an emerging consciousness of public life and family privacy "exposed the deep vein of.2004, by:danachan, character:frodo, character:sam, for:empressaurelius, genre:slash, pairing:frodo/sam, peoples:hobbits, rating:nc-17, type:fanfic The Official Secrets Acts, moreover, is only one refined expression of a rising culture of secrecy. The Act thus appears to have been used more as a vehicle of state censorship, as a way to protect government ministers from embarrassment (Aitken 2 Hooper 7-10). It was used repeatedly in the decades that followed to prosecute, or at least threaten, citizens who passed information deemed prejudicial to state security as well as authors whose memoirs revealed knowledge gained while they held positions in the civil service. It is, for example, one of the only laws in western jurisprudence to lay the burden of proof on the defense. The legislation, ostensibly designed to guard against espionage, was one of the most all-encompassing laws in English history. The Official Secrets Act, originally penned in 1889, was expanded and reinforced not only in 1911 but again in 1920 and yet again 1939. Prior to World War I, a growing sense of the need for state secrecy had been on the rise throughout the late-nineteenth century. It shows how Tolkien draws on Old English semantics to channel the social and theological theme of revealing and concealing through the characters of Smeagol and Deagol. This essay examines both the modern culture of secrecy and the secrecies that pervade The Lord of the Rings and its mythical past. The "modern" world into which Tolkien was born, in which he formed his own intimate fellowships and indulged in his own "secret vice" of imaginary language creation, was a world with pressing political and moral questions about both the necessity and the abuse of secrecy. While Tolkien's mythopoeic literature obviously alludes to ethical ramifications of concealment allegorized by mythical rings, the specific historical conditions of secrecy and contemporary ideas about secrecy during Tolkien's life have rarely been considered as keys to his fantasy. Although Tolkien disavowed the notion that his fantasy was an allegorical representation of the wars that defined his age, it is nevertheless accepted that the central thematic concern of The Lord of the Rings with power and moral responsibility reflects the devastation of those wars, both to Tolkien personally and to Britain (see Garth and Croft). and as Tolkien himself records, "all but one of my close friends were dead" (The Lord of the Rings Foreword xxiv). By 1918, war had claimed three members of the T.C.B.S. The "Tea Club and Barrovian Society" (T.C.B.S.) was mostly dedicated to the covert appreciation of tea (Carpenter, Tolkien 45-7). In that same year, nineteen year old John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, an Oxford-bound student at King Edward's School in Birmingham, formed a "secret society" with fellow students. In 1911, under a rising fear of war and a growing espionage hysteria caused by the movement of a German gunboat off the coast of Morocco, the British Government hurriedly passed a sweeping revision of the Official Secrets Act (see Hooper, Aitken, and Thomas).
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