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| Smiting Ruin by Thundera Tiger | 20 Review(s) |
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| Hikamaru Ryuuzaki | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/15/2008 |
| Really nice story. Loved the explaination of 'smote his ruin'. Keep it up! Author Reply: Thank you very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it! | |
| Adrianne | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/18/2007 |
| Hahahahahahahahahahahahah. Brilliant! And funny! Adrianne | |
| Fimbrethil | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/26/2006 |
| Brillant piece of humorous writing. Anytime I need a lift, I read Smiting Ruin and have a good laugh. Keep up the great work. | |
| Lilandriel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/31/2006 |
| love it! this is so very, very funny!!! u had me chuckling at my screen in the middle of the office!! no doubt i drew some very strange looks, but i didn't dare turn round to find out! right, off to read some more of yours! xx | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/19/2006 |
| I've only recently discovered Stories of Arda thanks to my friends Alassiel and Eruanneth Luin (I've even posted my first story just this month) so I'm still playing catch-up with the many stories that are now available for me to read. Eruanneth kindly burned a number of her favorite stories on a cd for me and this one was one of them. Have you ever tried NOT to laugh in public while eating lunch at the same time? Let me tell you I almost fell out of my chair when I read this story. It is absolutely priceless! I felt so sorry for Gandalf and at the same time couldn't help but wonder if the Three Hunters weren't playing a bit of "payback" on the old wizard. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are almost as bad as hobbits, indulging in inanities while "sitting on the edge of ruin". It's a pity Jackson didn't include THIS scene in the movies. It would've been worth the price of the ticket. And, to borrow a phrase from a completely different movie, it's obvious from this story that even the Crack of Dawn ain't safe around those three! | |
| Beethovens7th | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/3/2005 |
| OMG, this is SO hilarious!!! I LOVE IT!! And if all of your works are as well done as this one, you have a new faithful reader! It is rare that a story has me ACTUALLY laughing out loud, a smile perhaps yes, but i rarely laugh out loud. THIS had me laughing my fool head off! Here are a few of my fave bits. .. "Gandalf felt the beginnings of a large headache. " I can just see it! he reaches up to massage his now aching temples. . "Is futile flailing another of your strange elven customs?" WHAT A PERFECT comback for gimli!! WONDERFUL . I wish i could be that quick with combacks!! The movies are fabulous, but YES there are SO many wonky things that drive me NUTS. I had not really thought about the "smote his ruin" line though. Forever now that bit in the movie will remind me of you and this story and have me chuckling. ( as much as I do when watching pippin being superglued to a flaming bowling ball ) I will also leave a similar review at Mefa, but i thought i'd leave it here as well. Thanks for a great laugh!!! Do it Again!!!! SOON!!! Author Reply: Many, many thanks! You're really too kind, actually, but I'll certainly take the compliments. ;) Poor Gandalf, though. He had so many murdered lines in the movies. A few good ones, to be sure, but some were so mangled... It took me a few viewings to catch on to this particular line. It always struck me as strange, but I couldn't quite figure out why. Kind of that feeling of knowing something's off but being unable to say exactly what. Anyway, thank you so much for the review! And have fun with the MEFAs. I am. I'm currently exploring the humor subcategories, which makes it VERY fun indeed. | |
| LadyElenmiruial | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/8/2004 |
| Oh, dear, that was wonderful! Definitely a good thing to read between classes at school; it absolutely made my day. They were so serious, and yet so hilarious at the same time. I'm never going to be able to hear that line again without laughing, you know. :) Marvelously done!! Author Reply: Thank you very much! I'm a huge fan of wry, dead-pan humor, so I wanted to try my hand at it in a fic context and this seemed like the perfect story for that. There's a bit of tongue-in-cheek here, too, I suppose. Anyway, my apologies if I've ruined that part of the movie for you, but I haven't been able to think of it seriously for quite a while and decided that I should have company in my insanity. ;) Thank you for reviewing! | |
| Estel_Mi_Olor | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/19/2004 |
| That was great! Very witty. That line always did seem rather odd-or out of place I should say. Gandalf does not seem that vengeful-to smite the balrogs ruin upon the mountainside. :) I loved how the Three Hunters debated the quesiton so seriously. You would think it was a matter of life or death. I hope Gandalf's headache feels better. Thanks again for this fic! Author Reply: You're very welcome, and many thanks for your review! It took me a few viewings to figure out what was wrong with what Gandalf said. It struck me as...wrong, but I didn't understand why for a while. Ah well. Anyway, I can see this as something that the Three Hunters (or Legolas and Gimli, at least) would pick up and debate in all earnestness, though probably not at this point in time. But later on, after the Ring War, I could see Gimli settling down with his pipe and Legolas perching himself on a tree limb with Aragorn off to the side and have a good, long debate about this. Poor Gandalf. | |
| Nightwing | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/12/2004 |
| I read this and just had to pop back in. That line "smote his ruin upon the mountainside" was one of my favorites from the movie. Very dramatic and it sounded so cool. A bit over the top, but I got a bang out of it. The ensuing discussion was hilarious. Rather Monty Pythonish. Gandalf's mounting frustration and his desire to kill the Three Hunters... I can well understand his desire to get moving and tell them no more of his experiences, or they'd be standing under the trees of Fangorn all day. Another of my favorite movie lines: "I'm starvin'. We ain't had nothin' but maggoty bread for three stinking days!" Not sure we can get much of story out of it, but it always makes me laugh when I hear it. Author Reply: "Maggoty bread"? Hmm... I'll think about it. Actually, an idea just popped into my head, but give me some time to process and brainstorm it. I might just have to get back to you over that one... Anyway, many thanks for the review! The style I was aiming for was actually more along the lines of Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams, but Monty Python works, too! I'm certainly not going to complain. I was a big Flying Circus fan for a while. Mind-numbingly stupid, but oh-so-funny. Glad you liked it, and I'll think about that "maggoty bread." | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/6/2004 |
| *snort* I am laughing and would laugh so much harder except I can actually imagine this debate occurring in fanfiction circles! Poor Gandalf. Well, that will teach him to hold his peace until he remembered more of what he had forgotten. :D Author Reply: LOL! Yeah, I can see a bunch of fans sitting down to ferret out what Gandalf *really* meant with "smote his ruin." That could be fun, actually. Ah well. At least Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas had fun with it! | |