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| Fiondil's Tapestry by Fiondil | 12 Review(s) |
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| Caunedhiel | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 10/21/2011 |
| This nearly had me crying! So beautiful :) Author Reply: Thanks, Caunedhiel. I appreciate you letting me know. | |
| Kaylee Arafinwiel | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/20/2010 |
| Atar Fiondil, Just been reading through some of your ficlets before bed, and I was wondering if this one connected at all with the later "Beyond the Galvorn Door". So...did this happen after Feanor (possibly) made it beyond the Door? It couldn't have been before. Or is this what he's seeing as he's standing there, until he finally wakes up? I have to say, I still adore the Valar's treatment of Feanor here...I love Namo, Manwe and Varda. Tulkas amuses me too. I wasn't sure whether this counted as a review for this one or that one! :p Tye-melin, Kaylee Author Reply: Hi Kaylee. This story is indeed connected with my later "Beyond the Galvorn Door". Originally I was planning a three-part story with the overarching title of "Beyond the Galvorn Door". This story here was to have been the third part and part one was what later became the Loom story, but I never could come up with the middle section, so when this particular prompt came along I used the Fëanor story for it with some modifications. When I was hunting around for an appropriate Halloween story last year I decided to use part one of the orignal Galvorn story, again modifying it to make it a stand-alone story. In this case, this is story is what Fëanor is experiencing after he's passed through the Door. He is, in fact, the last of them to be released, so in effect this is his judgment which he refused to allow when he first arrived in Mandos, so this story takes place sometime in the last Age of Arda before the Dagor Dagorath. Hope this answers your questions. | |
| Cairistiona | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/6/2008 |
| What a moving piece... I didn't realize until the very end that it was Feanor, and that gave it all the more emotional impact. As a parent, it's often very hard to keep doing things that *I* know need to be done in order to teach a lesson, when my child is interpreting it as punishment and anger and the complete opposite of love. And I like your take on Feanor's fate--that reconciliation of a wayward son is always possible. There's much hope to be found in that. I'll probably read and re-read this one. Thank you for writing it. Author Reply: Hi, Cairistiona. I'm glad you liked this tale. It wasn't an easy one to write, but as you say, there's much hope to be found in the knowledge that reconciliation of a wayward child is always possible. Thank you for reviewing. | |
| Beruthiels Cat | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/22/2008 |
| I'll admit that I wondered what you might do with the "problem child"...but with everything you've presented to us about the Valar thus far, this is very appropriate to Fëano's need. Dreams are strange things, aren't they? Glad you wrote this, and am still hoping you'll eventually get around to writing the Dagor Dagorath. *grin,accompanying cannonball hint* I still think you're one of the (very) few who could successfully pull it off! Cat Author Reply: Thanks Cat, I appreciate the vote of confidence. I would like to write the Dagor Dagorlad someday but first I want to write about the Darkening and I have to finish Glorfindel's tale as well, though at this rate I have the feeling we'll all be in the old people's home before I do. LOL Glad you enjoyed this little tale. Thanks for reviewing. | |
| Nieriel Raina | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| I think I'll need to read this several times to truly appreciate it. My initial reaction was I didn't like it very much, though I couldn't put my finger on why. It took me a bit to begin to really get what was going on and now... I'm still of mixed emotions on it. I both like and dislike it, if that is possible. It evoked strange emotions, but the ending is joyful and so I approve. *grin* Author Reply: I admit this is not an easy tale to read or understand so I can understand your ambivalent feelings about it. It came to me twice in dreams. The first time, I only got as far as Namo's interaction with Feanor, the second time (some months later, actually) I dreamt it again but this time to the very end. It was not easy to write, either, but the muse was insistent. Anyway, I hope in time, with subequent readings, you will at least not dislike it even if you don't exactly like it. *grin* | |
| 6336 | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| Hm, I wonder what the elves in Aman think about the return of this Reborn, I think Feanaro will be getting a very cool reception from the Firstborn and others! More please, Lynda Author Reply: I'm sure that by that time especially with Arda Renewed all is forgiven and Feanor will find acceptance. | |
| SurgicalSteel | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| This was lovely! Author Reply: Glad you liked this. Thanks for letting me know. | |
| Jasmine | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| Another beautiful piece--I love the concept. :) Author Reply: Thanks, Jasmine. I'm glad you enjoyed this. | |
| Rhyselle | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| The first time I read this when you showed it to me privately, it took me several readings to really understand this story. But I adored it from the first. Like Feanor, like things that happen in our real lives, understanding frequently ends up following the experience, particularly in matters of love, trust and forgiveness. As Edlyn pointed out, our own perceptions of what God gives to us are frequently coloured by our choices and experiences, and in our marred state, it takes many lessons for us to see what is Truth and to accept it and embrace it, until we, too, are able to be reborn. I wonder if to a newborn soul, traveling that uncomfortable path when being pressed forth from its mother's body seems like what Feanor experiences with the Valar. A descent into what seems like darkness... but there's life and joy on the other side of the journey... I like the thought that we, as spirit offspring of God, chose to take that step into a mortal life, as Feanor chose to step off the precipice into Love. Feanor needed to achieve spiritual rebirth before he could be granted physical rebirth. Thanks for posting this. It's wonderful! Happy Easter! Author Reply: I suppose that in many ways the experiences of someone being born physically might be similar to what Feanor experiences spiritually, though we end up in our mothers' arms rather than Namo's. *grin* I think Feanor had the harder time of it though. Thanks for reviewing. Happy Easter! | |
| Edlyn | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 3/21/2008 |
| This made me weep, meldonya. But they were glad tears, tears of grace. For some reason this was a wonderfully appropriate thing to read on Good Friday. We are always being pushed into Love we just need to realise it instead of making assumptions based on our own guilt and misconceptions. May we all step off into Love, accepting what is given freely to us and Love those who love us. Happy Easter. Edlyn Author Reply: This was not an easy tale to write and it developed from a dream (actually two dreams) in which I experienced this as Feanor did, i.e. I was as much in the dark about what was going on as he was until the end. When NiRi gave this prompt I thought it was an appropriate story for Good Friday with its theme of reconcilation, forgiveness and the promise of new life. So readers can consider this my Easter gift to them. *grin* Happy Easter. | |