Haha! That was fantastic :-D Especially: If Arthur hadn’t found that glowing ball of light to follow in the caves of Balor, they would both be dead by now. - Hee! And: Four Ways Merlin is a Crap Servant and One Way He Isn’t Oh, Who Are We Kidding. Five. Five Ways." You win at life :-D And lovely characterisation too - I can literally hear Arthur saying "Very good. Every day you are learning!”

Oh and yes I totally remember LOTRIPS! It was how I first discovered LJ even existed. I've changed journals/LJ names about 3 times since then! A while ago I started nostalgically going through the archives of fellowshippers and bookmarking some of my favourite fics, but have kind of got waylaid by new fandoms like Merlin that suck up my LJ time :-D