Yeah, the "clean cut with a sword" thing made me laugh loud, long, and bitterly. I play with swords on a regular basis, and they just don't work that way. Especially since there's no way to guarantee a clean cut, what with the whole mountain right behind the arm. And even if Fingon did manage a clean swishing slice, zhoop! would go Maedhros down the mountain face and splat! at the bottom. That's gravity, that is. So an emergency amputation with all the trimmings it was.
I also read thoroughly two accounts of real-life emergency amputations. One was a lady caught in the Oklahoma City bombing whose leg was trapped under a ton of concrete and the doctors had to amputate in order to get her out, and the other was that hiker who got his arm crushed under a boulder and amputated it to get free. Interesting reading, but the details do indeed give that kind of thing an automatic R-rating.
Which, in part, is why I balk at writing it: because I am too attached to my characters to do them harm :)
But consider that the harm has already been done to them. You're just. . . reiterating it. Yes, that's it. No mention of salt and open wounds whatsoever here.
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Date: 2005-09-12 07:44 pm (UTC)I also read thoroughly two accounts of real-life emergency amputations. One was a lady caught in the Oklahoma City bombing whose leg was trapped under a ton of concrete and the doctors had to amputate in order to get her out, and the other was that hiker who got his arm crushed under a boulder and amputated it to get free. Interesting reading, but the details do indeed give that kind of thing an automatic R-rating.
Which, in part, is why I balk at writing it: because I am too attached to my characters to do them harm :)
But consider that the harm has already been done to them. You're just. . . reiterating it. Yes, that's it. No mention of salt and open wounds whatsoever here.