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| A Visit to Imladris by Dragon | 5 Review(s) |
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| Eruviluieth | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 12/18/2004 |
| This is hilarious and sweet at the same time. Celeborn needs to lighten up, but it doesn't look like it will happen any time soon. Update soon! Author Reply: Thanks for the review and I've just updated. Celeborn does need to lighten up, and I'm sure that in time Galadriel will make him see that. Just not any time soon! ;) | |
| Shemyaza | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 12/18/2004 |
| Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! Absolutely wonderful once again. The Terrible Trio are just an accident looking for somewhere to happen and they're happening all over Imladris. Celebrian isn't really helping matters by innocently leading her frustrated, distraught father and speculative mother into thinking that it's Gil-Galad and not Elrond that she's developed an interest in. The portrayal of Galadriel as a secretly scheming mama, already counting up the pennies in the royal coffers and the jewellery in the vault, is utterly priceless. I always visualised her as a scheming lady with her eye on the main chance, while poor Celeborn struggles to keep up with her machinations. All he wants is to keep his delicate little flower in Lorien where he can keep an eagle eye on her and it must appear to him as though the whole world is working against him while he strives desperately to keep everything exactly the way he wants it to be. As for our High Kingly King and the other two stooges, well, they're going to need a block and tackle to get out of the huge hole they're busy digging for themselves. They should be careful because I'm sure that Celeborn and Haldir would find the greatest amount of gleeful pleasure in shovelling soil over the top of them! Celebrian is coming across as a real person, which is a huge achievement considering that she's only mentioned in passing in Tolkien's work. She's the wonderfully naive and silly, yet adorable ultimate dumb blond who makes dreadful decisions based on a whim and gets the wrong end of the stick all the time. What a lovely foil for the usually austere and elegant Elrond who, to his dismay, finds that where his heart, emotions and hormones are concerned, *everything* he says comes out in 'moron'! Bravo...more....more..... Author Reply: Thanks for such a lovely review! *g* And "The Terrible Trio" - what a perfect phrase. I think they just lead themselves into the holes that they did for each other. The High Kingly King is being very gallant and is trying his best to save Elrond, it's just he finds certain things too amusing, and Glorfindel... if you gave Glorfindel a big red button saying "Do Not Push" he wouldn't be able to restrain himself. *g* Thanks! | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 12/18/2004 |
| Ohhhhhh!! you're smart!!!!! :-o I did love the link among those stories.. Ereinion's Naneth coming to the Havens, and then Cirdan's housekeeper... still quite sad her story...I cannot help wondering how Ereinion could come up such a wise and happy adult, with such a childhood... I suposse the fall of the havens must have been another heavy loss for him.. since I guess by that time he had got used to being there... This story is so full of hapiness and fun it is a nice contrast to the rest...so.. it is quite as well that you update in bunches for now I can see how the stories are related... Great job! I'm amazed that you manage to keep up with all your wonderful plots, but it is a pleasure to follow after! Keep on!!!;-) Author Reply: Yay! Someone caught the link! And yes, I think it was a huge blow to Ereinion, especially when his father had just died and his mother had just joined him. The bunchy updating is due to college terms, but it does work, sort of! :) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 12/18/2004 |
| I just love watching this bunch of heroes stumble from chaos to disaster. 'Galadriel breezed over a glare that would have left her masculine counterparts quaking in their boots' Of course she would - there's tough, there's adamant and then there's Galadriel! '“Kings…” Celeborn took a deep breath, “Who have all died singularly horrible deaths in facing foes who are beyond them. They have been hewn in two and beaten into the dust. Chopped, incinerated, spliced and diced!' What a succinct and accurate description of the fates of the princes of the Noldor! I'm not surprised he doesn't want them in his family. Although I'm interested to note that Galadriel wishes to exert a claim over a couple of heirlooms. They will be relieved to accept Elrond in the end. Probably. Author Reply: *giggle* Great description of Gladdy! And I'm sure Celeborn will manage to grit his teeth through the wedding, eventually. But he's his baby! Not anyone elses! His! :p | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 12/18/2004 |
| "He was tall, of good blood, and – she suspected – in sole charge of a couple of trinkets that would make a good addition to the heirlooms of the family. And if he should accidentally be slain before his time as was customary to those of his bloodline, it was only natural that they should pass to her." I enjoyed every bit of this chapter, but this paragraph really cracked me up. I think it was the "as was customary" part that did it. I also like the way misunderstanding is growing deeper and deeper. Author Reply: *g* Thanks for the review! :) I think soon they'll all be so tangled up in misunderstanding that things will begin to make sense at last... Perhaps. In the meantime it's Gil-galad who will suffer, and being a High Kingly King he can take it! | |