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LotR, as I poke around at fics beyond my beloved "The Captain & The King", is proving to be as filled with epithet abuse as Magnificent Seven and Gundam Wing were/are (the braided boy, the uni-banged boy, the tracker, the gambler, the healer, etc. etc. ad naseum). I think maybe I need to once again break out that Batman/Superman "behold how stupid this sounds" example ficlet where every single one of Bruce and Clark's various names and epithets is used in quick in succession and it sounds like there's ten different people involved (The Man of Steel tenderly peeled back the Dark Knight's cowl. "Bruce," Kal El whispered, "I want you to let me love you. Is that so much to ask?" Batman jerked loose from Clark's grasp and stepped away from him. "I can't," the World's Greatest Detective said, his voice rough, and the Last Son of Krypton winced at the cold refusal in it. "Bruce," Superman repeated, almost pleading now..." you get the idea).