Okay, this is probably going to make me sound like a thirteen year old kid but I've had this idea since I read The Two Towers however many years ago and am only now considering reading this type of fic again (I had much lower standards back then).

The type of fic I'm looking for is that in the time between Sauron's first fall and the events of the LotR a bit of innovation comes about in the technology of the various races. You can probably see where this is going already. The idea is that at some point in the past one of the races of Middle Earth stumbled upon the science of combustion and then of saltpeter, and thus firearms were discovered.

I want to read a good fic that incorporates a somewhat modernised Middle Earth that would lead to the books being set in a WWI style era. Kinda like enembee's AU of the HP world (Skitterleap <3) transposed into the Tolkienverse. It's probably a lost cause but I can always hope for one or two gems in amongst the Legolas/Gimli shit.

Also, on a completely different note, I was on irc for a forum I browse and had a sudden urge to read a Lord of the Rings crack fic where one of the hobbits finds a really old, dagger of Elven make with its named inscribed on the blade (or something similar) in the Barrowdowns and decides that he doesn't really care for the name and calls it something different. Like Cunt Destroyer :awesome. It. Would. Be. Epic.