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| Children of Iluvatar by Antane | 3 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 7/20/2007 |
| *tears* Oh wow...that's all I can say. The weaving of the lyrics into the tale added just the right touch, and this: I am glad they are together, Ada. That is the way it should be for two quitin fear. But still it is bitter. Why does it have to end this way? It will end this way, my child, but you do not know when that end will be. Has not anything you have seen and heard yet brought you to believe that Panthael’s heart is what I have fashioned to be? Hold onto his hope, if you have no more of your own. What hope is there left? I tried so hard to hold on the entire time, to trust in Your words and vision. But there is nothing left for me to hope or trust in. While there’s life, there’s hope. Trust still for My watch has not ceased over them anymore than has Panthael’s ceased over his Iorhael. The flames are so close. I am closer. Wow! God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Hantanyel, ammelda! I love that part too about God being closer than the flames. How often we forget that! Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) | |
| Elemmírë | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 7/11/2007 |
| What a lovely blend of book and movie verse, Antane, and another wonderfully written and thought-out chapter! I again really like how you have Elrond thinking of Celebrian here and comparing Frodo's suffering fea with hers. It's interesting also because although Celebrian resides in the West now, Elrond has only his faith alone that she is healed of her wounds since he's never seen her since. It will end this way, my child, but you do not know when that end will be. Has not anything you have seen and heard yet brought you to believe that Panthael’s heart is what I have fashioned to be? Hold onto his hope, if you have no more of your own. What hope is there left? I tried so hard to hold on the entire time, to trust in Your words and vision. But there is nothing left for me to hope or trust in. While there’s life, there’s hope. Trust still for My watch has not ceased over them anymore than has Panthael’s ceased over his Iorhael. The flames are so close. I am closer. I LOVE that "conversation" between them. Is that perhaps a bit of foreshadow that Frodo and Sam will end their mortal lives together in each others' arms ... but in the Blessed Realm? And those last two lines left me speechless. Yes, Elrond, partake in Sam's hope for it is unquenchable. :D I was reminded of something that I recently heard at Connecticut's Respiratory Therapy which I attended. The key note speaker was talking about healing and Spirituality, that it comes in many forms, etc. But she said something which was the only note I wrote down that day in the margin of my program. She said, "Hope to live fully, come what may." I also thought of Tolkien's own, While there's life, there is hope, during this speech. It's always been an important quote to me as a healthcare professional, for when I first started my job it was with the intention of helping and healing people. But many times, I found myself unable to do just that because for so many who are chronically ill there is no full healing. Then one day I realized that help and healing comes in many different forms, from just being able to put a smile on a patient's face, making them forget their troubles for a moment, to just fetching someone a glass of water. Helping people and healing do not just from a cure that many times does not exist. Hope itself also comes in many such different forms. Sorry to ramble, but I feel that once Elrond regains his faith, that it will be stronger than ever. May he and Sam (through Iluvatar) be able to show Frodo what it is to live fully again ... and to have hope once more as well. I can't wait for the next chapter. You are going to write of Elrond in Minas Tirith with Frodo, right? Hint, hint. LOL! ~Elemmírë~ Author Reply: Another big hantanyel and hobbity hug, my dear! I do so love your very kind reviews! Ramble away. :) I love that line of Iluvatar's also - it's so hard to keep that in mind when we are going through our trials. But He is there. The Footprints poem comes to mind too. I haven't gotten up to Elrond in Minas Tirith yet but yes, it'll be there. And yes, that is foreshadowing about Frodo and Sam's deaths, or at least the way I hoped it happened. God knows so that's what is important and it's the only way it should have happened for such knitted souls. I think Elrond would know that his beloved wife is healed just as Sam would know somehow when Frodo was - those that shared the same heart and soul cannot not know. Live fully indeed. I love that quote. Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 7/10/2007 |
| Mixing movie and book--nice job of it. And the two are brothers indeed where it matters most. | |