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| Twice Twenty by Dreamflower | 7 Review(s) |
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| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/14/2006 |
| "I cannot help but wonder if we are doing the right thing." That gave me shivers! Well done :) Author Reply: Oh, thank you! I did want his little moment of doubt to be a bit ominous--none of them realize yet what is going to happen in just the next few days... | |
| Anso the Hobbit | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/12/2006 |
| Mmm... Legolas will indeed read more into the wind than any of the others and it is no wonder he is in doubt about the journey, but as we know he will learn several times over and more how well it was that those who set out on the Quest did. Very nice! Author Reply: Yes, it is no wonder he was in doubt. I am quite sure that all of them doubted from time to time--even Gandalf. But you are right that he will learn they have done the right thing, even if it did seem completely daft at the time. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/9/2006 |
| I like Thranduil's weather wisdom! And Legolas seems to sum everyone's feeling up very succinctly and accurately. Author Reply: I was thinking about that song from Boromir's funeral, when no on wanted to sing about the east wind. But further north, a south wind would not be very good either. I think all of them must have had that question run through their minds at some point--oh, only about a dozen times a day. | |
| Elf Friend | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/7/2006 |
| This had the perfect tone of forboding! It's so sad what the Quest did to the hobbits, although it did make them stronger in the end, didn't it? This was great, I'm glad I slowed down in my morning rush to read it! :) Author Reply: Thank you--yes, it really was sad, and yet as you said, it made them stronger. But of course, their larger friends were going to be very sad to see what it did to them. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/7/2006 |
| At that point in the quest, this is definitely a valid question. Poor children. Author Reply: Yes, I thought so. And that particular point, right after seeing the crebain,, would certainly be a time when it might have occurred to Legolas. "Poor children", indeed! | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/6/2006 |
| Well, it is understandable Legolas has some doubts. The whole Quest was a desperate idea, and I sometimes wonder if *anyone* truly wholeheartedly believed it would succeed. It looked more like a suicide mission, I'd say. Author Reply: I think all of them must have had their moments of doubt from time to time; Legolas, less than the others, since he would know the truth of what Elrond had revealed. Yet even he, especially pondering his companions, would worry and doubt occasionally--even moreso as he grew fond of them, and realized that yes, it was a suicide mission. If it had not been for the Eagles, it *definitely* would have been--and no one at that point had *any* idea that they would intervene. A friend of mine on another Tolkien forum has a sig line. First there is the quote from Elrond: "There lies our hope if hope there be. To walk into peril--to Mordor. We must send the Ring to the Fire." And then she has a quote from a character on the SciFi TV show, "Farscape", Crichton: "That's your plan? Wile E. Coyote could come up with a better plan than that." *LOL!* I giggle every time I see it. | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 3/6/2006 |
| And so it proved. We don't see much from Legolas' POV in fellowship fics, so this was very nice. I love drabbles-wish I was better at them! :) Oh, BTW, I read "Dear Frodo..." earlier today but lost my connection before I could leave a review. Wireless internet... But I just wanted to tell you I loved it, and got tears in my eyes reading it. Merry's letters looked very authentic, and it was so sweet how he tried not to mess up any words and confessed to it when he did. :) God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Yes, so it proved. But there really wasn't any better idea, either. I'm hoping to have a bit from each of them by the time these are over--I think I've pretty much achieved that, except for Frodo himself. But I've seven more to go. Oh, I understand about losing connection. Happened to me for a while yesterday, too! I'm so glad you liked Merry's little letters. I hoped very much that they would sound like what a child of his age would write. | |