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| Fragments of a love story by Nesta | 1 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 3/24/2009 |
| He IS having a time of it, isn't he? Personally, I don't see Aragorn as adamant as this, but then that is just me. I can see him conspiring with his son, in fact; and the very fact he, too, loved one thought unequal to him, if above rather than below, would grant him more empathy. But I can understand this Aragorn's appreciation of the blood lineage he seeks to protect, as misguided as I might perceive it to be. Author Reply: Maybe I am a bit rough on Aragorn. I must admit that Aragorn the Parago(r)n gets on my nerves occasionally in the book, the way he keeps on reciting his pedigree and assuming that he's entitled to everything because of it. The fact that he apparently IS entitled to everything rather irritates me too, although it's an impeccable bit of Romance plot (predestined hero and all that). I've always been a Stewardist myself. The way I put it to myself was that Aragorn had staked so much on his ancestry that he was bound to keep it up if he could - but he truly is facing a different world, and has to realise it in the end. As for Aragorn's own marriage, he was marrying someone of much higher lineage than himself, so that only ennobles his famous 'lineage'. Eldarion might be seen as wanting to do the opposite. | |