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| Sundry Scrolls by Raksha The Demon | 6 Review(s) |
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| Little Dwarf | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 6/29/2008 |
| Actually, this is the first fic I read where the twins are not just part of the background or a couple of mindless, imature Elves who do nothing but play pranks on others... Your story was so different from those, that I start to think more about these two... Again, wonderful writing: "Elladan strikes the wall with his fist and does not cry out at the pain. Elrohir flinches, then throws an arm around his twin and guides him along the marbled path. Their feet, so often elven-light, scuff and stomp as they pass; their limbs seem as heavy as their hearts." - palpably dramatic! Author Reply: The twins may have had many friends and teachers, but they were short on family, having no cousins and only one set of grandparents; the imminent loss of their mother, conceivably for all eternity if the Shadow conquered all of Middle-earth, would have horrified them, especially after the pain of Celebrian's ordeal. They seem to do everything, or at least many things, together. Thanx for the review, Little Dwarf. | |
| Nesta | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/27/2008 |
| That is very moving. E&E always struck me as complete nonentities, but you really bring them to life. I suppose Celebrian's departure is a kind of suicide, and you can't do anything much crueller than that to your children. How did it affect Arwen, I wonder? Dit it help strengthen her resolve to make that very hard decision to stick with Aragorn till death - and after? And yet she left her children too, in the end. Author Reply: Fanfiction has seized on Elrohir and Elladan and made them loving big brothers to Aragorn, Elvish party boys via slash or non-slash stories, mighty warriors, or all of the above. I tried to build on what Tolkien says of the twins; which isn't much - that they were emotionally close enough to be together out of choice, and that their mother's pain and exile drove them to take up orc-slaying as their special vocation. Given that cause and effect, I figure the twins had to have suffered emotionally from their mother's torment and her departure. I'm less sure about Celebrian's departure as suicide - she goes to the West for healing, as did Frodo. It's a journey from mortal lands into paradise; so perhaps it can be read as death and rebirth. Celebrian's condition is, in my opinion, connected to untimely death of JRRT's own mother, as are the fates of some other M-e mothers, i.e. Finduilas, Theodwyn and Gilraen. I'm pleased that the story moved you. | |
| Jay of Lasgalen | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/26/2007 |
| I love this, and can't imagine how I missed reviewing it when I first read it! The twins' anger and sorrow and grief is so vividly portrayed, but I love their closeness, and the chaste embrace at the end. Beautiful! Jay Author Reply: Thanx much for your review, Jay; coming from a Peredhil aficionado of your caliber, it means a lot. I usually don't write the Twins; because I find it hard to get into even halfElven heads, but they spoke to me about this moment, if that's possible. I could see them clinging to each other in grief and revenge as well as in happier days. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/10/2007 |
| I'm not usually a fan of the twins,but this is a wonderful depiction of the unique closeness twins share.Their grief for their mother is heartrending. I also like your explanations of why no one in the family when with Celebrian. Author Reply: Well, Elrond still had several generations left of Isildur's Heirs to foster! And Arwen wasn't ready to leave the world she knew. I think the twins would have been broken-hearted, and blamed themselves to some extent. Thanx for reading and reviewing a Twins-centric piece! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/9/2007 |
| Ah, a wonderful look at a most needed return to childhood for these two, who need rest to deal with their pain and impending loss. And I believe the orcs of Middle Earth indeed learned to fear their names. Author Reply: I think the sorrow of Celebrian's children at her condition and then her loss must have been terrible; and the twins perhaps the most, since they had seen her after the Orcs had savaged her. Oh yes; the orcs will learn to fear Celebrian's sons. The sad thing is that I think Elrohir and Elladan are losing most of their joy in life along with their mother by devoting themselves to killing. | |
| Calenlass Greenleaf | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/9/2007 |
| Ties in well with the previous vignette. Calenlass Author Reply: I actually wrote them at different times; writing Undivided several months before The Blessing of the Waters. Glad you appeciated the tie-in. | |