News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| The Nan Elmoth Apprentice by French Pony | 5 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/14/2005 |
| So behind in my reading...as in the rest of things! sorry. This is a sad story, I fear. I'm curious to see how Maeglin develops his love for the forge and his own name, for the fact that he was known by that name till his end may suggest that he learnt to love it, doesn´t it? Strange elf, this Eöl. You´re managing to give sense to that sentence int he SIlm when it says that Maeglin was kind of dark fruit of the kinslaying... interesting subject, Fp, and the boy´s pov is very engaging! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/9/2005 |
| Sadly, given what we know of Eol from the Silmarillion, I think you have his character absolutely perfect here. I can so see him flinging out the name and not giving it another thought because it is his to give; I can so see him saying to his wife 'you will return'; I can so see him dealing with Maeglin in the forge that way and then giving him a coin--something to possess. Poor Maeglin--you can really see parts of his canon personality developing here too. This is really powerful stuff, FP. I really like this one a lot! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/9/2005 |
| Poor child. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. It's no wonder he turned out less than he could have been. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/8/2005 |
| You know, on the one hand, one can say that Eol was not entirely unkind, that he had some respect for his son's skills and aptitude. He seemed to be a decent teacher. Yet, in that time spent together, he completely shattered the trust between child and mother by telling him that Aredhel had left him, and that she had done it before. The work seems hard for a child of 10 too... and the fact that he was too tired to play in the forest and he was sore proves this. The childhood of the Eldar is supposed to wonderful and carefree, but we see a child who sees his worth in what he does, not in who he is. Its a very sad childhood you're establishing for Maeglin. | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/8/2005 |
| I knew this would be sad. So what are you thinking is the trouble here? Eol seems to love his son in a rather selfish way. Actually I think that might describe Aredhel too. She does leave, after all. Reminds me in a way of that old movie "Kramer vs. Kramer." The mother (Meryl Streep, I think) is being smothered in her marriage and leaves her husband (Dustin Hoffman) and a little kid. The father turns into super dad. Not exactly Eol, I guess. | |