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Twilight Sparkle the Purple, a magus whose name is muttered with only the highest measure of respect returns from her travels for a very special day to celebrate a very special mare. Fireworks? Those are all but a guarantee—she made them herself.

Hopefully, nopony will do something silly like set them off unsupervised.

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first, 'twilight sparkle the purple'

'the purple' xD

second, the picture makes me think of master makarov... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3smUCtk-c8 2:47

Another Tolkien inspired raretwi? :yay:

I can only assume Mono is behind this influx of Rarilight shipping...

EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKK!!! I CANT HANDLE THE ADORABLENESS!!! XD

Geez, that picture is like Twilight consumed Trixie... You know like as a blue and white drink with a swizzle straw...

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Just shows how envious Twilight is of the Great and Powerful Trixie. Has to steal her look! :trixieshiftleft:

Twidalf, Fluttergast, Starluman...you write it, I'll read it.

Twilight met her with an impassive gaze. “A magus is never late, nor is she early, Trixie Lulamoon,” she replied cooly. “She arrives at the precise hour, the precise moment she intends.”

I'm glad you wrote this. If you didn't, I was going to. Though I wasn't expecting that lovely callback at the end.

In any case, a wonderful, Middle-Earthy slice of life. Thank you for it. And if you do choose to further explore this universe, I'd more than welcome it.

8914679 I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And really, I want to do some sorta thing with Fluttershy of Everfree and Twilight the Purple to show off their powers, especially Flutters's. I sorta envisioned her having both fire and the ability to bend plants to her will. So, the Everfree Forest is tamed by one mare alone—she's shy, skittish, and hides behind a lazy bear :P

TWIDALF! Hahahah I'm dying. I was giggling through most of it but that sent me right over the edge! I don't know what else to say that you haven't heard a thousend times. I loved it, I really really did. I love everything you write. Thank you

Lord of the rings reference?

Aaaaaaaaawww!

I do have to wonder if Trixie might have become a Gandalf-like figure, had she been raised in a different environment. Of course, we don't know anything about her upbringing, but picture a gifted filly, incredible with illusion magic, growing up in a High Fantasy-style school of magic, learning how to harness her powers, all the while harboring a secret wanderlust...
Might be interesting to explore someday. I'm rather focused on my own characters at the moment, though.

This is good, REALLY GOOD. I find myself hungry, no... STARVING for MORE! That was sooooo goood.
I mean, it lives up to your normal reputation for building an incredibly detailed world and making e fall in love with it. So many little teases and references to things I want to know all about.
It was fantastic! It was fluffy! There was blushing bookhorse and ALL POWERFUL MAGE bookhorse and and and AAAAAAAAA

Now I want to see Fluttergasts' bunny powered sled.

Cool.

Though, is this a series?

This was wonderful, love it.

“I took precautions,” Twilight hurried to assure her. “Most of it was because the inhabitants, the Kindly Ones or the Tricksters, the locals call them, tend to dazzle ponies with their dances and shimmering magic. It’s not so much that theyhurtanypony—er, unless offended or challenged,” she amended. “Then, well, I think I’ve told you how some of my friends can be about such things. They’re rather … foalish, by comparison to what the old tales imply.”

“Foalish how, might I ask?”

Suddenly, Twilight found herself quite interested in the steam rising from her mug and the comfort of heavy silence. When that persisted and a glance stolen up revealed an expectant gaze, she splayed her ears and muttered, “Being kept as a servant would be considered a kindness depending on how grave the slight. Being left to wander the endless forest was one of their favorites, if not worse.”

So what DO the old tales imply? Torture on par with what Mab likes to dish out? Or perhaps they get the fae and Discord confused?

8921158 Well, when being kept as a servant is considered a mercy ... ~

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let me rephrase: I'm trying to clear up what's them "as of now" vs what's them "in the past/as implied by the stories", because the overall...tenses(?) are just a bit awkward.

I want more of this AU

I kinda want the adventures of Twidalf and Fluttergast now. >.>

me too!

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It was REALLY cool. Usually with AU's I'm pretty meh, but I could read a full story of this.

That’s a nice gift, though there are so many schenanigans that could happen because of it. For instance, perhaps Twilight would be out in the world, doing something dangerous, when all of a sudden, her beautiful lover pops in from Ponyville going “DARLING!” and so she sets off a disaster.

Could be funny!

I think I ship Gandalf x Frodo now. So thanks for that, I guess.

Wonderfully fluffy story, and I love how you've managed to keep Twilight Twilight despite the AU.

Also, the fact that Twilight's supposed to be Gandalf but there's an Olorin also running around amuses me greatly.

Nice little au for a shipfic. Glad to have read it

Very nice. Also I find FrodoTrixie an interesting concept. Could have AJ as Samwise, and Pinkie and Rainbow as Merry and Pippin.

Just got around to reading this. The concept of Twilight and others being LotR style wizards is a lot of fun, but what's even better is the adorable RariTwi interactions. When the necklaces appeared, I found myself mentally figuring out if timing allowed for them to be inspired by TEL's necklaces, though they ended up having a different magical property. I'm amused by the fact that the fireworks explosion is a fairly minor part of the story, given its prominence in the description, but Aragon did write a blog post a while back about how you trick people into reading character pieces by making the synopsis about something exciting.

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