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| The Journal of Alatáriel, Missionary by Clodia | 2 Review(s) |
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| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 2/15/2010 |
| At last! Hehehhe. Now I would love to hear the exchange of arguments between the author and the editors across the years!!! And the "affectionate Aprtner's" private opinion of the tome! This was a wonderful exercise in meta, Clodia, unveiling such a world of possiblities! But this kind of whimsical chronicling really fits in what might be the pastimes of these inmmortals as the ages rolled by! thank you very much for the effort, I greatly enjoyed the tale and the joke! Author Reply: Well, thank you so much for all your support! It's really been wonderful to have your feedback all the way -- every comment made my day, and I'm so glad you shared the joke! :'D | |
| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 2/11/2010 |
| A very edifying epilogue. ;) The concluding statement was indeed the summarized message of Alatriel's journal. However - as much as I love E&M and respect their wisdom, regarding note 1 - "...for ere the fall of Nargothrond or Gondolin I passed over the mountains..." This seems to say Galadriel and Celeborn spent the better part of the First Age in Eriador, not Doriath. When you look at it, their history in that realm is at variance as much as what happened in Eregion. So I suppose, one could take both, either, or neither. Personally, I take both. Which sorta puts me at a bit of difference with note 3 and 5 as well. ];} Although *you* might not think so, I loved this tale! :D And now, I am off to give you unwarranted grief about the accompanying Tale! Thank you for sharing it! Author Reply: //regarding note 1...// Hm, well, I know there is a touch of LOTR vs Silm ambiguity there (unless I'm mistaking the source); but it's only one statement from Galadriel and my general policy is to take Silm as absolute canon, supplemented where appropriate (or convenient) by *non-conflicting* material from the UT etc. The Silm has nothing to say about Galadriel's whereabouts at the time of or directly after Doriath's fall, although C. Tolkien presumes in the UT that she and Celeborn were there and I certainly go along with that; and you can of course argue over what she did next, but my personal pseudo-canon would send her to Sirion and then over into Eriador post-War of Wrath. After that I have no comments; the range of options for how events played out in Eriador gives me serious headaches and at the moment I have no intention of committing to any of them. (Although in any case, both Nargothrond and Gondolin fell pretty late in the First Age -- so the footnotes need not actually be incorrect, as long as you, uh, disconnect slightly from the version of canon they're actually referring to. ;)) There is also one way that I might wriggle out of the statement in LOTR, if I chose -- you've read the Treasury entry now: obviously Galadriel is still self-mythologising. :D Anyway, thank you so much for all your kind and detailed comments! Each and every one has made my day! :DDD | |