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| Memory Of Darkness by Jay of Lasgalen | 12 Review(s) |
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| amokeh | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 4/18/2005 |
| I just discovered this site in the last month, and have been busily soaking up all the stories. I am *finally* getting around to posting reviews for the ones that stand out. Anyway, wanted to thank you for a wonderful presentation of a loving Thranduil - I've read too many stories where he's made out to be a demanding tyrant, and I just don't see how someone like that could raise someone as good-natured and gentle as Legolas! Well, it's been a while since you last posted to this WIP, so hopefully you've worked through your writer's block and are planning to post another installment soon? Author Reply: Thank you! I hate stories with an evil!Thranduil - for the same reasons you mention. So I decided to write some stories where he's a good father. I know it's been a *long* time since I updated (though I've been doing other stories, which also feature Legolas and Thranduil), but I'm actually working on the next chapter now. I hope to post within a week. Thank you for your interest! | |
| washow | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 1/1/2005 |
| I just wanted to let you know how much I was looking forward to reading your story and how disappointed I am that you haven't updated in a long time. Would you please consider finishing this story for those of us who were enjoying it? Author Reply: I haven't abandonded this, but seem to have writer's block on it at the moment. I have been busy on other stories, though. I promise I *will* finish it as soon as possible. Thanks for letting me know you're still interested! Author Reply: Just to let you know that I'm writing the next chapter now. I hope to post in a few days! | |
| kalima | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 11/11/2004 |
| AI! A WIP! A WIP! (She drops her bow and arrow.) I didn't know, though I shouldn't have assumed. I liked the banter between Thranduil and Legolas very much. (I mean in the beginning of this chapter, the discussion of who might be responsible for Legolas's stubborn gene.) (Sigh.) I can but wait. Author Reply: Thanks for reading all this and reviewing as well! It is a WIP, but I'm working on the next chapter - I hadn't realised how long it's been since I updated. Until you mentioned it, I also hadn't realised that poor Legolas was still dirty, grimy and bloody :( We'll have to assume that he had a bath off stage, as it were. I'll also check those edits you mentioned - sometimes errors slip through. I'm glad you've been enjoying this - and of course you can print it off! I have other stories you and she might like as well. Thanks again - and I must stop being distracted by random plot bunnies and finish this story! Jay | |
| LKK | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/21/2004 |
| His gaze strayed again to Arwen and Legolas, now walking slowly beside the river. “Although they are not so young now – they are growing fast, all of them.” Hmmmmm.... could the King be entertaining ideas concerning his son and the daughter of a certai half-elf? ;) Good for the trees for defending themselves against Elladan's scorn! Very funny. I still wonder if Legolas is going to try and find out if there is something done in the caves. He seems so unwilling to accept what others tell him. He's as stubborn as his mother. Just like Thranduil says. *snort* Author Reply: With Aragorn thousands of years in the future, can you think of a more suited couple? They are both the children of rulers, of similar age and status. And they are good friends. Can you blame Thranduil for thinking matchmaking thoughts? I laughed as I wrote the part with Elladan and the trees - and got some odd looks from the family ... The cave - yes, what is down there??? | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/6/2004 |
| Ah, this was a very wood elfy Legolas - very nice to see him communing with the trees and hearing their voices and being welcomed by them in return. And what he saw in the cave is still bothering him, huh? Hmmm..... Author Reply: Poor Legolas had been stuck inside the palace for far too long, so I thought he deserved a little R&R in the forest. He feels much better now - about ready to go into the caves again ... | |
| Nightwing | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/5/2004 |
| I did my best to drink in your lovely descriptions of the winter forest, but my little daughter was behind me the entire time, singing the Star Spangled Banner at the top of her voice and doing cartwheels around the room. It was a bit distracting, but if I must return to this chapter for a re-read later it will be a pleasure. Your words were just lovely. I like the pacing of this story. You are taking your time, thank God. I dislike a rushed tale. Obviously we will be getting back to the cave and perhaps a bit of juicy action at some point, but there is always more to a story than just that, when it is well written and well planned. Praise be for mature writers like you! Nightwing Author Reply: Thank you for your praise! I'm glad you like the forest scene, but children (and partners) can be so distracting at times. Thanks for the comment about the pacing - I worried that this chapter may be a little slow, but feel Legolas would not recover very swiftly after something like this. | |
| lwarren | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/3/2004 |
| ALL RIGHT!!! An update! And a good one, too! I absolutely love the relationship that Legolas has with the forest, especially the trees! (gush,gush!lol) I would imagine he was getting pretty claustrophobic from all that time spent inside those stone walls...I know how I am when the weather's been bad for a week or more (snow? what's that?...ah, but rain...that I do know!) Your scenes of him in the tree - of the tree "cradling" him - of the different voices of the trees (the sharp, green voice of the pine, the light, silvery voice of the beech, the deeper, more ponderous voice of the old oak) were just great! But I especially loved the part where the tree obligingly, but gently dumped the snow on Elladan's head (or was it 'Ro? They both deserve it! *g*) Just a very entertaining chapter...Thranduil's such a good Adar, and I had to grin at the adults eyeing Legolas and Arwen walking and talking together...speculation must have been born in that moment! *vbg* A wonderful addition to this story, Jay! linda Author Reply: Thanks, Linda! Although Legolas is used to living inside a cave, he's also used to being able to go outside whenever he wants. He missed the trees. It was Elladan who got snowed on, which will teach him to make comments about 'just trees' when Legolas has been having such a long chat with them. Elrohir wasn't a lot of help to his twin, was he? And Legolas and Arwen - I sense match-making in the air! | |
| Karri | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/2/2004 |
| Delightful chapter, Jay! I loved Legolas and the trees (but then I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.) The pine dumping snow on Elladan was both fitting and entertaining. ;-) And Legolas and Arwen make a lovely couple. Its unfortunate they didn't end up a couple, as I would have prefered Aragorn had ended up with Eowyn, though I love Faramir and so cannot begrudge him his happiness. Author Reply: Poor Elladan - he'll have to learn not to mock a wood-elf in his own forest. The trees were feeling very protective of Legolas after he had spent so much time with them! Legolas and Arwen do make a good couple - and their parents have noticed that! | |
| Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/1/2004 | |
| All of the dialogue in here is very cute but my favorite must be: Legolas grinned. “There are some who believe that I inherited that particular characteristic from someone a little closer,” he suggested. His father looked indignant for a moment, but then nodded slowly. “They could be right,” he admitted ruefully. He paused, just for a second, then added, “Your mother could be very determined at times.” As he rose from the bed and groped for his crutches, Legolas chuckled. “Oh, I know!” Thranduil is just too much. Author Reply: I like Thranduil! I hate to see him as an abusive father. For Legolas to be the elf we know and love, he must have had very loving parents (or parent, in this case.) | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 9/1/2004 |
| Your description of snow falling left me wishing for it, Jay, and I usually don't because it comes early and lasts long where I live. But it does muffle noise so that there's quiet, and it is beautiful, especially in a woods. Thranduil is a very understanding father here, and Legolas behaves maturely, I think, not getting defensive or anything. Author Reply: It seems strange to write a winter scene when there's bright sunshine outside, but when I started 'Mid Winter Gifts', which is set immediately before this story, it was winter! It's also wishful thinking, as the most we get where I live is a few flurries. Thranduil brought Legolas up more or less on his own since he was ten, so they understand each other very well. | |