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| Once by Noldo | 5 Review(s) |
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| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/26/2024 |
| Wow beautifully written and his desire to be Turin could be imagined in the grief that he had sustained. Lovely. | |
| Danina | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/3/2006 |
| I must have read this a dozen times, and I'm finally leaving a review. I went and read "The Silmarillion" primarily because this story intrigued me so much that I had to know who Turin was. And once I read it, it was only more brilliant to have put Faramir and Turin -- two men who couldn't be more unlike -- together in this great dichotomy. The writing style and rhythm is just flawless...prose-poetry of an amazing calibre. Even the way you end with "Sing now ye people" creates this great musical sense to the whole thing. The repeated "He wanted to be Turin," the haunting comparisions between the Finduilases ("At least Turin's Finduilas had gone quickly.."; 'He wanted to be Turin, because Turin had died."), even the breathlessness of the sentence "lovely golden-haired fierce injured Éowyn in blue with silver stars on top of the City" and then it just goes into this perfect encapsulation: "He had never really wanted to be Turin." It honestly gives me chills. You've covered the whole scope of Faramir's life up to his marriage here, in these unforgettably vivid images all filtered through Turin and Finduilas. This is the best kind of fanfiction there is. *Wow.* | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 11/4/2005 |
| Oh--this is divine, Noldo. How very, very wonderful, watching Faramir finally realize that he has far more than Turin ever had--a love whom he loves in return. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 11/3/2005 |
| Very pretty, bittersweet story. You bring home the pathos of a motherless child clinging to a legend for traces of the mother he can barely remember...And the ending, when the adult Faramir, hurt but not broken, turns to the living Eowyn instead of the sad legend of the first Finduilas, is wonderful. | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 11/3/2005 |
| Noldo! I love how you show Faramir's growth as a person in the comparision to Turin. I had never thought of the juxtaposition but it works really well. MM | |