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Droplets by perelleth	8 Review(s)
Nariel	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 6/17/2007
If only, if only Thingol was wise... Perelleth, The sorrow of Galadriel at her beloved brother's death is so tragic. Now she truly is alone. The title of the story is actually one of my favorite lines in The Sil. The other one is when Finrod dies. Weep, weep... Can you try a droplet of your version of how Finrod felt either at his parting from Amarie, the fateful question his sister asks, Thingol's reaction to Finrod's death or when he is telling Nargothrond that it is their duty also to help Beren? Can you? I just am glued to your FInrod. If only, if only Finrod were mine... Namarie! Author Reply: Than you again! I do like Finrod's character a lot, and there seems to be little fanfiction about him... although I would recommend that you read BOdkin's story " A darkness lies behind us" in this same site, about his return form Mandos...ççI do not know if the insiration will strike again, but I will keep your suggestions in mind! :-)

Larner	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/28/2007
Short vignettes of longer tales don't always come sequentially. Lovely image of Galadriel and her silver tree. Author Reply: Thank you, LArner, I am glad that you enjoyed, despite the jumps in time.

elliska	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/25/2007
Oooo! Galadriel is perfect in this! And such a fascinating moment and discussion. I had never thought about this confrontation. I loved it. And she is certainly bond to that doom though it will be a long time until she finds out exactly how. Great chapter. I have missed a ton of these too. Cool in a way because now I get more reading! :-) Author Reply: LOLOL! Go and enjoy then. Since Galadriel was living in Doriath, I alwayswondered how she would have reactd to the whole Beren issue, which affected her directly! Glad that you liked it! It surely was difficult for her to accept, I think.

French Pony	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/25/2007
This is real nice. It's a good reminder of how often in Tolkien's stories the happiness of one set of characters is built on the grief of another set. I suppose that it only makes it worse for Galadriel that it wasn't only Beren, puny mortal, who benefited, but it was also her friend Luthien who got what she wanted, even if that was mortality. Author Reply: Thank you, FP. I agree that it would have been very difficult for the lady to swallow that pill! So it made a good explanation for that sentence in LOTR when she tells the fellowship that they crossed the mountains before the fall of NArgothrond and GOndolin. It owuld have been difficult for her to see Luthien's happiness and being remembered of the price!

Redheredh	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/25/2007
Very nicely done. I especially like how you created a setting for the jewel of a scene between Galadriel and Beren. Her not accepting this offered ring was almost a foreshadowing of the next time she would chose a ring from a mortal and take the quieter path of leave-taking. Still, she got her digs in too... ;) Seems you cannot have one without the other. Whether love and hate, joy and despair, good and evil, life and death, past and future. Author Reply: Thank-you, Redheredh! This seemed to me a good explanation for Galadriel and Celeborn´s crossing the Mountains "before the fall of Nargothornd and Gondolin" The greif must have been too much to bear for her, from the moment that Beren showed Finrod's ring and Thingol doubted not in sealing his fate together with Beren´s... Glad that you liked it.

Bodkin	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/25/2007
Hardly surprising that Galadriel couldn't be exactly joyful at Beren's return plus Silmaril - since his and Luthien's arrival brings exact and horrific information about just what happened to Finrod and the elves who accompanied him on his quest. Yet - she is right to leave the ring with Beren. And they are both right in seeing that their lines are intertwined, bringing both happiness and great grief. I wonder what would have happened if Finarfin's children had returned to Tirion with him. I suspect all would have ended in darkness - they were needed east of the sea. And I'm not surprised that Celeborn and Galadriel could not remain - and it turns out to be a Good Thing that they crossed the mountains. Lovely line - The elven lady sat there against the mighty, forked trunk of an old beech, held in the comforting embrace of her silver tree. She needed Celeborn's strength - but he needed her, too. Doesn't Tolkien lend himself to taking an incident and twisting the mirrors to look at it quite differently! Lovely, thought-provoking piece, Perelleth. Author Reply: Thank you Bodkin. You know how bunnies bit! :-) Knowing how the story evolves, it is easier to find out explanations and reasons, but it must have been so painful for her at the moment... to feel also that they were but a toy of Doom. And Celeborn was thinking of Daeron, I suspect. I was laways curious about that confrontation, if it ever took place. Glad you liked it!

meckinock	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/24/2007
Ooh, cool. Beren and Galadriel. I enjoyed his premonition that their lines would be intertwined, and hers that it would only bring her grief. How right he was though, that joy and grief are seldom found apart from each other. I'm glad she let him keep the ring :-) Author Reply: I often wondered how it would have felt to her, from the moment Beren wielded her brother's ring and Thingol sealed Finrod´s fate... It was a curious meeting, and surely it took her a lot to accept and fogive... Thank you meckinock!

daw the minstrel	Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/24/2007
The thing that comes through here (as in Tolkien) is how joy and pain are intertwined. It's not just that you go through pain to reach joy; it's that even when you get the joy, it comes with pain as part of it. Very compelling, Perelleth. Author Reply: THank-you, Daw. And also that joy to one means surely pain to another...and the other way. So sobriety both in joy and pain is explained, I think.

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