History Fanfic / ABoyAGirlAndADogTheLeithianScript

* ForWantOfANail: Manwe and Varda showed Beren other possible lives that he could have led: in one of them Sauron caught him in Dorthonion and got him executed; in another of them Beren reached Hitlum safely, settled with his human relatives and got married.

* ArcherArchetype: Beren has been practicing archery since he was a toddler and stealth guerrilla warfare since he was a teenager. Skulking around the woods, shooting Morgoth's minions from afar and disappearing amongst the thicket was his routine for ten years. And he is not humble about his marksmanship.
-->'''Beren''': Yeah, but I started practicing when I was what, four? five? and I kept practicing, and I twanged myself good more'n a few times there -- first time I tried fooling around with a full-size bow I gave myself a bloody nose, and my first recurved hunting job -- ouch. --Of course I shouldn't have been too impatient to put on a vambrace before testing it. But yeah, anything that can punch through an elk, or a warg, or an armored Orc, before it can get close enough to damage you, is going to have a hell of a lot of power and need extreme control to make that power go where you need it to, and only there.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Melian tried to show Thingol that Beren and he aren't so different, but her husband refused to listen.

* DropTheHammer: Morgoth's weapon was a giant hammer, Grond. Beren and Luthien found the pits that Grond left on the ground when Morgoth fought Fingolfin.

** Finrod promised Vair&euml that he'd not move the walls again. When he threatens with doing it anyway…

* CatchPhrase:
-->'''Captain''': War is not a game.

* CombatPragmatist: Finrod's captain is this trope incarnated. He repeats constantly that [[CatchPhrase war is not a game]] and since the enemy does not abide by the rules all civilized sentient beings on the planet follow, he is perfectly willing to fight dirty, cheat and make surprise attacks.

* EvilIsCool: Averted. Luthien describes Angband as a horrible place… and Morgoth and his minions as pitiful, sad beings who do not even enjoy what they are doing but hurt others because they cannot stand themselves.

Unfortunately King Elu Thingol thinks that [[OverprotectiveDad nobody is good enough for his cherished girl]], and has got prophetic dreams where humans brought disaster to his kingdom. So he is not delighted to hear that his daughter wants to get married to an outlaw mortal warrior, and he [[EngagementChallenge tasks Beren to perform an impossible and suicidal feat]], expecting him to give up and go away or try and get killed.

* OverprotectiveDad: Deconstructed. Thingol loved his daughter more than nothing in the entire world, and he would do anything to protect her. Unfortunately his extreme over-protectiveness caused the ruin of his kingdom, the death of many people, including his beloved grand-nephew, and his daughter nearly cut ties with him and her mother.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Fëanor, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod, Aegnor… Beren, Barahir, Emeldir the Manhearted, Haleth… All Noldorin princes and Edain chieftains not only are [[WarriorPrince Warrior Princes]] but also some of the most renowned warriors of its Age. Beleriand is a war-torn land, so a ruler MUST know fight to be able to keep his/her people alive. Finarfin might be seen like an exception since he was calm, humble, and preferred to avoid conflict… except that he succeeded where his most prideful and most belligerent relatives failed.

''A Boy, A Girl and A Dog: The Leithian Script'' -- also known as ''The Leithian Script'' or simply ''The Script'' -- is a ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' Fanfic by Philosopher-At-Large that retells the Lay of Leithian, one of the most important stories of the Creator/JRRTolkien ''[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Legendarium]]'', as if it was a play. The author uses ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' for the main source, supplementing it with ''Literature/TheHistoryOfMiddleEarth'', ''Literature/UnfinishedTalesOfNumenorAndMiddleEarth'' and others.

''The Leithian Script'' is noteworthy for the HUGE amount of investigation and thought put on it. The story is complete, though the author’s notes for Act IV are only partial.

The author also wrote several spin-offs, narrating in greater detail and in prose some parts of the Lay: [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/841190/1/Hunting Hunting]] (Beren and Shelob’s meeting), [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/841201/1/Terrible-Gifts Terrible Gifts]], [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/926635/1/Betrayals-Renunciations Betrayals, Renunciations]] (Finrod and his men’s stay in the Wizard’s Isle), [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1047838/1/Shadow-and-Silver Shadow and Silver]] (Luthien and Huan defeat Sauron), [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1182794/1/Fell-Knowledge Fell Knowledge]] (Beren and Luthien travel to Angband). These fics are also available on Archive of Our Own.

It has nothing to do with the ''Film/ABoyAndHisDog'' movie.

It can be compared to ''Fanfic/BeyondTheDawn'', since both are a retelling of the story of Beren and Luthien, but Philosopher-At-Large puts more effort in portraying the story and the medieval setting accurately.

* DropTheHammer: Morgoth's WeaponOfChoice was a giant hammer, Grond. Beren and Luthien found the pits that Grond left on the ground when Morgoth fought Fingolfin.

** Another Feanorian thought that Light elves were clearly different of Dark elves. Then he thought that The Captain was a Sinda. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].

* ExtendedDisarming: Before entering [[HiddenElfVillage Nargothrond]] the guards request Beren leaves his weapons to them. HilarityEnsues when he starts to hand over weapon after weapon:

* DeadFic: The last chapter was published in 2004. Needless to say, in her last update the author assured she was working on it and the fic WOULD be completed.

* IgnoredEpiphany: Melian tried to show Thingol that Beren and he are NotSoDifferent, but her husband refused to listen.

* NotSoDifferent:

** Beren is just a boy fell in love with a beautiful stranger he met in the woods, just like Thingol.

* AdaptationExpansion: The story in ''The Silmarillion'' was thirty-pages-long, and the Lay was around one-hundred-pages-long in “The History of Middle-Earth”. This fic is more than half-million words long.

** Angband was erected and designed by Morgoth, and it is built in very weird shapes that make no sense to men or elves. People who has been inside barely can describe the place (beyond vague words such like “ugly”, ”burnt”, ”angled” “deep”, “rough” and “paths and overpasses winding up and down and you never know what direction you are going towards”) or they do NOT want to remember what it is like. The ex-thrall confirms that nothing of its design suggests that it was built by elves, and Luthien said that none of the architecture seemed designed with people in mind at all, but it was actually designed to NOT seem homely.

* AncestralWeapon: Beren wields Dagmor, his father’s sword.

** One of the men of Finrod was frightened when he saw his king’s battle aura in the dungeons of Tol-In-Gaurhoth, and he though Luthien’s battle aura had to be even greater than Fingolfin’s.

** Similarly, the Valar loved the elves, regarded them as Iluvatar’s precious children and would do anything to help them and protect them. And then the Noldor accused them from luring them into a jail to turn them into their pets, slaves and tools, before committing genocide.