News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| In Empty Lands by Larner | 7 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 9/21/2011 |
| A telling chapter indeed and full of foreboding! Yikes! You can really tell that Arwen is Galadriel's granddaughter! Nicely written. I do love the parts with Boroomir laughing. If only he could have laughed on Amon Hen.... Author Reply: Oh, yes, there's no question of Arwen's heritage both from her peredhel father and her formidably grandmother as well. She must have had her own version of foresight just dripping from her at times. And both Frodo and Boromir needed a good laugh from time to time, I think. I, too, grieve that they did not do so together on Amon Hen, but they at least had the chance to do so here. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 8/6/2010 |
| Nice to see Frodo and Boromir get to know each other a little better, and an interesting turn when Frodo went from understanding the reluctance to accept Aragorn as King to compare it to Lotho. But while the situation with Bilbo adopting Frodo to make him his heir starts out a bit similar, no one says Boromir's family is too bad to continue. Something that can't be said for the S-B's. So Boromir got his warning about It already. Sadly it didn't help in the end. | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 6/14/2010 |
| This is one of the best chapters I have read anywhere based on LOTR. Had the conversation between Frodo and Boromir really occured, Boromir very well might not have died. And then there is Arwen. What she told Boromir was awesome and also might have changed his fate. Excellent job! Author Reply: I wonder, Tari. For the memory of the intensity of these encounters would fail, and the Ring was by him to remind him of Its potential as he traveled by Frodo's side. Our minds can be so malleable! I would like to think Boromir might have been spared, but wonder if that was possible. Anyway, thank you so! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 6/10/2010 |
| Glad to see another chapter up and a little joy for the Ring-bearer to hear Elven song. His words about violation are so true - he endured a brutal and repeated rape and that endurance is what is so inspiring. Very interesting insights of Arwen to Boromir about the Ring. That man's education continues. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: To hear Elven singing must have been so wonderful for Frodo Baggins. And each day Boromir the Brave learns a bit more! As for Frodo, Antane--you know how I feel about what he endured. The Ring betrayed him and nagged at him and manipulated him.... | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 6/9/2010 |
| Alas, Boromir! Had you only taken Arwen's advice to heart! It seems that Arwen has inherited a bit of Galadriel's ability to read the heart of another. It is interesting to contemplate the plucking of the Ring at the sleeve of Aragorn's will, in a manner of speaking. I wonder if and how Faramir felt the Ring's influence, as well, for he didn't seem to show any discomfiture in his interview with Frodo. But I'm rushed, no time for more. Thanks for the breakfast reading! Author Reply: I suspect he did take it somewhat to heart at the time; but the Ring still found Boromir fairly easy prey after so much time in his presence. I'm not certain what Faramir experienced of the Ring's presence. I may one day investigate that! Heh! Love to the girls, Hubby, Zoe, and the Interloper! Heh! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 6/9/2010 |
| the Man felt as if there were a strange kinship between his companion and that urn, both deceptively delicate in appearance and filled with an alien beauty, but both enduring beyond what a Man might expect of them. That's a wonderful passage. This whole chapter is full of very thoughtful and perceptive things. Author Reply: Thanks so, Shirebound. Frodo must have posed quite an enigma to the Gondorian! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 6/9/2010 |
| I've always felt Boromir would have been impressed with Frodo's dignity, and see the resemblence to his brother Faramir. It does not stir here, in Imladris; again It slumbers. Something else on which we agree! I am sure that the Ring recognized the presence of Two of the Three there, and knew it could not challenge them without being on its own Master's hand. Very glad to see another chapter of this! Author Reply: Finally--time to answer at length! I suspect that Boromir found much to bring to mind Faramir within Rivendell and the Last Homely House, and suspect that Faramir would have felt right at home there while things would quietly disconcert Boromir. Yes, we do agree about the Ring within Rivendell. Here is not the seat of Its power, but that of Vilnya, and that had to be a markedly dampening effect, much as being in Lothlorien in the realm of Nenya gave Frodo a time of peace from it. This one keeps whispering to me--but I have so MUCH to finish! Gaack! | |