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| In the Woods of Ossiriand by perelleth | 3 Review(s) |
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| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 3/17/2009 |
| The discussion of all that happened in Doriath and the different points of view and memories is very well done in that chapter. Thingol had been both victim and accomplice of his own weakness. Very true! Again though you have left it where I cannot wait to see what happens next, so I am rushing off to the next chap. :-) Author Reply: LOLOL! Cliffhangers at the end of the chapters were not a self imposed condition but rather a natural developement. I cannot tell you how difficult it was to keep the 2500 word limit, though! Thank you very very much, elliska. I am giving it up for today, I'll continue tomorrow! | |
| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 9/1/2008 |
| Maentew says so many insightful things this chapter! Then also, so many arresting things. The glimpse of what happened in Doriath and Elwing's escape especially. But, he puts the blame where it is due. Mostly... Personally, I think Thingol was only trying to find a task that would him rid of Beren, rather than gain him a possession he had never even seen or needed. Heck, the Noldor themselves might have tried to stop the man from taking the jewel and done the king a favor. Problem was Luthien was her parents' daughter. Hmm, Thranduil recalls Maedhros... maybe he is more dangerous than dad... Elves killing eachother, over a rock... so much for being higher beings. I always say even angels can sin. I liked the relationship Thranduil and Maentew have fallen into. ;) But what an ending! Everyone is falling into falling into chasm!! To be swept away in the river? If they can survive, so may some of the orcs! Thrills!! :D Author Reply: I like to think that the SIlmarils had some power of their own, and as FInrod said, the curse awoke when the silmarils were named with some desire of other. I too believe that Thingol wanted to send Beren to his death, but I like to believe also that the Silmarils had some alluring power perhaps of the same kind as the One Ring. Perhaps greed is not the most opportune word, though, but anyway, Maentew was pondering Thingol's "greed" in retainng the silmaril and hoarding it and keeping it in secret and eventually dying for it, and it is there that I think that mild greed, mixed with the power of the object, ensnared the powerful king and made him fall. Don't know if i make much sense... :-) | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/31/2008 |
| I don't think I've ever before seen a story about Ossiriand breaking up. This is fascinating, Perelleth! they were elves indeed; doomed, cursed, twisted in their wickedness, but Firstborns still, all of them capable of killing their kin… and that was what frightened him most Now there's a profound thought. Tolkien is so odd. He talks about the elves in such an idealized way, but when he writes his story, he shows them with far stronger passions than he seemed to allow for. The ending of this chapter is pretty breathtaking! I'm trying to imagine how you're going to get them out of the fix you just "dropped" them into. Author Reply: I had never thought about that directly, either, and I agre that is fascinating. The valar came, cleaned the house and did not matter that they did ruin in in the process... :-) ANd the repeated kinslaying is something that really stuns me. I remmeber that when I first read the Silm many years ago and reached the part of the attack on Sirino and that detail that many of Maedhros' host turned against their own ranks, so sick of fighting and slaughtering, I got tear eyed, to think how those elves must feel doing something so hideous and against their nature! What I learn form that is that falling is not beyond even the best.. and that is quite sobering! | |