Rapid Peril

Zine
Title:	Rapid Peril
Publisher:	Solo Press
Editor:
Author(s):	Carolyn Golledge and Eleanor Tremayne
Cover Artist(s):	Katja Schmitt
Illustrator(s):	Katja Schmitt
Date(s):	2008
Medium:	print, fanzine
Size:
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Lord of the Rings
Language:	English
External Links:	online version
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Rapid Peril is a 320-page gen Lord of the Rings novel by Carolyn Golledge and Eleanor Tremayne.

front cover by Katja Schmitt

back cover by Katja Schmitt

It is illustrated by Katja Schmitt. It won the 2009 FanQ Award for Best Gen zine. Additional illustrations can be found on the artist's website here. Sample art appears on Fanlore with the publisher's permission.

It has a prequel, Dithen.

Summary

From the publisher's flyer:

When the Fellowship is attacked by Orcs at the Sarn Gebir Rapids, Frodo falls into the river and a wounded Boromir jumps in after him. The two are trapped with the Ring playing on Boromir's mind, until help can reach them. From there the story journeys to Amon Hen (an ill Boromir is captured with Merry and Pippin) to Fangorn, reunited with Gandalf, Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli. Boromir and Pippin hurry to Minas Tirith to find Faramir about to be hung for treason (he has refused his father's order to retake Osgiliath).

Fan Comments

There's some lesser known artists who have a very fluid approach to pencil that makes for great emotional art, very alive, rather than static and stiff. Katja Schmidt comes to mind, she did the pictures for Rapid Peril, a LOTR book from Solo press.