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| Elf, Interrupted: Book One: Glorfindel Redux by Fiondil | 6 Review(s) |
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| Mîdhaer | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 3/29/2010 |
| Glorfindel and Finrod stole glances at each other before answering in unison, “I am, of course.” Nice bit of foreshadowing there. I love this series, and this story especially. Keep up the good work. ~Mîdhaer Author Reply: Hello Mídhaer! Wow! It's always a pleasant surprise when I get a review for one of my older stories. I'm so glad you are enjoying this. Thanks for letting me know. I greatly appreciate it. | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 5/5/2008 |
| Well, they certainly know how to eat. The food sounded wonderful, but my stomach hurt just reading about it. I could never eat that much. I am most interested in finding out what happens to the mischievous elflings. They are in deep trouble. I couldn't help chuckling though because I know they will suffer no harm. I’ll bet they will not be to anxious to go on another adventure any time soon. Tari Author Reply: Well the menu was carefully selected and unlike modern times of fast food and TV dinners, such a dinner would have gone on for a couple of hours with time between courses for the food to settle. The key was never to eat too much of any one thing, but simply 'taste' each dish, leaving room for more. Something I learned early on at SCA events. *grin* The children, while they're about to get a good scare that will cure them of their need for adventure for a while, will come to no real harm and will in fact benefit from it as you will see. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 2/15/2008 |
| Heh! Where Frodo would tell them a story, this one, as King of Nargothrond, merely sets up a trial for them. Poor li'l kids! Heh! Author Reply: Well, Finrod is a KIng and he prefers his lessons to be more... visual. *grin* | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 7/26/2007 |
| I agree with your interpretation of how the Valar view the Ban. I’ve never understood the logic of those who argue that all the elves from Middle-earth are stuck on Tol E until the world ends. But then, I tend to think also that the hobbits and Gimli at least *visited* the mainland at times. I’m wondering about the tabards Vorondil and Alassiel are wearing: plain or with a device, and if so, whose? You’ve made me curious about cinnamon in chicken soup. Maybe I’ll add cinnamon the next time I make cream-of-everything soup. [Then again, not sure how well cinnamon would go with the mushrooms.] Author Reply: You might try nutmeg instead, same idea, but it goes better with mushrooms. Alassiel and Vorondil's tabards would have been a medium dark blue (not navy but a real blue) with Finrod's device of a harp and torch inside a lozenge with an alternating border of gold and silver strips to offset it from the rest of the tabard. | |
| Radbooks | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 7/23/2007 |
| The dinner sounds marvelous! I was glad that Ingwe and Glorfindel had a chance to speak before the public event, it was certainly necessary for Glorfindel to know what was going to happen. I don't know that it put his heart at ease any, but it's still better to know what is going to happen to you when you're in a situation like that. I continue to be amused at Ingwe and his reactions to Finrod the King - and to seeing the elves as the warriors that they are/were. Those things don't go away quickly and it's so important for him to see that part of his people have experienced things that he can't even imagine. I like the idea that perhaps someday some of the elves from ME might be able to come to Valinor proper and go to some of the unsettled lands and establish their own kingdoms. You can't have all of these former kings running around without giving them something to do! :) Silly elflings! So typical of young ones, but are they going to regret it, well, perhaps not. I wanted to point out that in that section you have one of the elleth fleeing into Ingwion's arms and I think it should be Ingwe's since a moment later you have Ingwion holding an ellon and Ingwe holding an elleth. Author Reply: Ingwë keeps having a mental image of Finrod from *before* the Darkening and is having a hard time reconciling that image with what he sees before him. The "elfling invasion" incident is an education for him, seeing not only Finrod in war-king mode (which he would have been even during the Long Peace) but also the Tol Eressëans responding to the "threat". As for the Tol Eressëan elves migrating eventually to Aman once they've been purged of the darkness wth which their lives have been imbued only makes sense. As large as that island is, it's not that large. Thanks for pointing out the error. I've since made the correction. Don't know how I missed it. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 112 on 7/22/2007 |
| This chapter makes me hungry! All these delicacies make my mouth watering. Hmmm .... I had expected an attack, but elflings? That seems a bit tame, but maybe it's not the end of it. I truly wonder what they had planned to do. Well, at least I am satisfied Ingwë witnessed how efficient the warriors acted. Author Reply: I was getting hungry writing this chapter! LOL Elflings sneaking into the encampment (or trying to) may be "tame" but perfectly logical. A tribute to all the "elflings" who ever tried to sneak into anything, from armed encampments to movie theatres. Ingwë needed to see how Finrod and the Tol Eressëan elves "lived" while in Middle-earth. Even during the Long Peace they were in siege-mode and were ever vigilant. Ingwë needed to see this in order to understand where Finrod and the others are coming from. | |