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| The Hidden Days of Healing by Linda Hoyland | 4 Review(s) |
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| hanci | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| That was awesome! Sad and poetic. Why the warning? I wouldn't guess it was Éomer coming, it's good it was him. I love your Gimli, but all your characters are great, their thoughts and reactions very...right. Poor guys, they can only watch and hope... But they have good ideas. I haven't heard about this supperstition about ravens, guess it comes handy now, especially thanks to Saruman. I kept thinking "and now he will wake up" again and again - I hope their tears will finally do it. And thank you for mentioning those little things like latrines or insect (sometimes it seems there are no such things in middle-earth). Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review and very kind comments. The warning was in case readers found the death scene distressing. I like to try to make M-e and its people as realistic as possible. | |
| Lady Saruman | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| Haha, I am triumphant! SKILLS! But then again, not really, because I listed almost everybody. As I've said before, the list is very random and so the fact that Halbarad is dead is known to me. But Eomer arriving seems like the most unlikely thing that happened. I had expected it to be some Elven healer or something, but instead came another person who is just as helpless as the others. Hobbit babies lying in the sun? That's a kinda strange remedy, in my opinion. Since Legolas has followed the advice that Sam gave him, I don't think that this remedy will cure Aragorn at all. Everyone's reaction when they saw what Legolas was doing. Eomer, in his grief, can find some sense. Everyone thought that Legolas was going crazy to undress the so called 'almost dead' king. So they did think that the king had died after all. They never seem to stick to hope, but I guess it'll be hopeless that they will continue to think that Aragorn will live. Angst all around. But why would it be under the adult warning box? Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review . The warning was in case readers found the death scene distressing. When i first started writing LOTR stories, I thought of having them mainly about Aragorn and Eomer, but then decided to write about Faramir instead. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| It's good to see Eomer has come to offer what help he can. I hope what they are doing contributes to Aragorn's recovery. Sam's clasp on his hand seems more likely to anchor him than most things. And I think they should sing! (Well, probably Legolas. Gimli and Eomer might not be up on the right kind of song, and the hobbits are rather too unwell.) Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review.Singing might be a good idea !I am hoping that eomer can help too ! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| Well, the hair-braiding and flower-crowning at least has some symbolic value, ditto the anointing - perhaps the Valar have been taking a nap after the long struggle of engineering Sauron's downfall. But still, after all the effort it must have taken for them to get Aragorn to this point (what with his forefathers' penchant for being orc-bait and Arathorn's waiting forty years after maturity to sire children, not to mention Aragorn's own frequent self-endangerment), you'd think Nienna, or Este, or some One, would wake up and smell the odor-of-dying-King of Men...And do something! Though Legolas and Sam should have been combing the meadow for some athelas; there's probably some growing wild in Ithilien... Where's Ioreth when you really need her? Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review .I think it's high time too the Valar did something for the one who seems to be chosen by them !Athelas sounds like a good idea ! Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review .I think it's high time too the Valar did something for the one who seems to be chosen by them !Athelas sounds like a good idea ! | |