by Barahir
You'll be as relieved as I am to know that there's no more sex with Wormtongue. This was the last chapter of it. He influences a fair bit of what's to come, but his actual presence has ended.
As for the Béma reference: thank you. I struggled a bit with the fact that none of the characters could justifiably call out "oh God" and so forth, as they might in a different setting. But calling out the names of random Vala didn't work all that well either, and referring to Eru in a sexual context just felt wrong...especially, as you say, because Tolkien's Men almost never refer to religion. I lucked out in that Oromë has a specific link to the Rohirrim, and while I generally tried to minimize their appearance, both Béma and Nahar do come up from time to time.
While I'm not crazy about the story concept, the idea of Eowyn sexing with someone as foul and repellant as Wormtongue seems pretty disgusting, however I really do dig the detail and particularly this line:
"ohhhh, Béma forgive me, I do want this."
Non Elven religion is otherwise nearly absent in LOTR.
This was a nice addition.