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Shorts  by Gwynhyffar 2 Review(s)
RedheredhReviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/9/2009
Celeborn and Oropher both are here! Goodie!Goodie! I love them together!

It's really fun to ponder on how they might have felt towards each other. Oropher is indeed impulsive and can hold a properly mean grudge. :) You captured them in a dramatic moment in a wonderful scene.

But, I wonder if Oropher recalled some of what he said here to his cousin after he had been in Greenwood for a while. Sindar are not Silvan. How much did the arrival of his own people force changes in the prevailing culture of those eastern realms? Language, art, buildings... How many of his people wed the natives, seeing them (actually eachother) as 'exotic bedwarmers'? And Oropher himself - a similarly exile-prince when you look at it - ends up taking on royal power and setting aside the simple life.

Celeborn and Galadriel will end up the rulers of Harlinden, a country far from a muddied bog and with more abundant resources than Forlinden. Lands which the Numenoreans will come to covet.

Hindsight is such a marvelous thing! :D





Author Reply: I'm sure at SOME point in the future Oropher has a moment of self-realization. I'm also sure that he can perfectly justify what he's doing (or done), as opposed to Celeborn's clearly scandalous and inappropriate actions. :D

Oropher's muddied bog comment was more a commentary on their state of being at the time. Construction is a dirty affair-particularly in areas with ample wetlands.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/8/2009
What a great confrontation scene! Both elves come across so well, and you can see that both have some part of the right in their thinking. But I just love Oropher, stubborn, impulsive, hardhead that he is.

Author Reply: Thanks Daw! I love Oropher too. I think that sometimes his stubborn impulsiveness served him well. ...othertimes not so much.

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