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| Flickers on the Water by Soledad | 3 Review(s) |
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| Dika | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 3/15/2006 |
| I hope you would write more about Feanor's sons. But, you know, almost everybody (and you, it seems) thinks that their Oath was something they COULD abandon. It was not, they could no more stop trying to get Silmarils back than a person who is falling down can stop in midair. Why doesn't anybody writes that both Doriath and Sirion fell because their leaders didn't return a stolen property to its lawfull owners? Feanarioni held back while Beren and Luthien lived - but after their death neither their son nor his daughter had the right to keep the Stone. They were asked nicely, several times, they refused. And yet Elwing doesn't feel guilty, not in any fanfic I have read at least. Not for the deaths, not for abandoning her children. She HAD to save the Silmaril. Not the city, not her sons. And nowhere she feels that she is at fault. I bet she didn't tell Earendil all the details. I am not saying the brothers were not at fault, they were. But most of all they were tragic. And two eldest most of all. I think Maedhros couldn't forgive himself that he didn't stop his brothers from taking the Oath. Author Reply: Oh, I'm not that smitten with Elwing, either. In fact, I'm even more mad at her than I'm at the Fëanorians. She's one of the very few Tolkien characters I'll never understand. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 3/12/2006 |
| Elros looked at him, eyes dark and serious. “And you believe the keeping of your Oath would not?” Very wise, Elros. And I only wish you could get through to him. But he is too damaged to imagine any other way. It's as if letting go of the oath would make him unravel. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 3/11/2006 |
| Even for the love of his foster sons, Maglor could not abandon his oath.Although, I am sure the conseguences of trying to keep it displeased the Valar far more than breaking it. Lovely look into Elros's mind. Earendil, after all, made many voyages, he was not often home. The whole story makes me think of many I have known whose parents were in Military jobs, or very busy elected offices. Children too often are neglected. Annnnnnd, it seems in character for Elrond to be looking out to Sea. Throughput his long life, the Sea was often a source of loss. A well portrayed moment. | |