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| 9 by Celeritas | 6 Review(s) |
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| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/24/2011 |
| I must have missed this one on Great Tales - I like this, how true. You know which other two I like even more. :) Have you read Toward the Gleam? I would think you would find it interesting and enjoyable. I certainly did! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/24/2011 |
| Moved over here, and not surrounded by other extraneous attempts, these do have much more context than they did at the challenge site. Chronological order helps too. Wonderful answer to the challenge, of course. I still think my favorite is Gimli's. Terse, and quite like what he'd be thinking. (BTW: I also like your answer to the snippy anonymous reviewer. Terse, and much more polite than what *I'd* be thinking.) ;-) Author Reply: As soon as I realized I could do a set of nine, I wanted to get them published somewhere else as a collection. Thank you so much! | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/23/2011 |
| These were very evocative. Do you know the legend that Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story? "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." These seem to me to be in the same genre, all the better for their sparseness. Author Reply: Yes, I do--in fact, that short story is what inspired the challenge that got me to write these. It's a real challenge, that's for sure, and it forces you to think about packing as much information into as few words as possible. Thanks for reviewing! | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/23/2011 |
| Ah: chronological order. I'm glad you mentioned that. Thank you for explaining. Author Reply: You're welcome! That one's a little bit harder to pick up on than the theme of the whole piece, and, as I said, I wanted to present these to the readers without any extra information. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/23/2011 |
| Hmm--this one's intent tends to evade me, unless it is her image on coins that may keep her memory alive. Alas for Arwen in the end in many ways. Author Reply: No, you got it! | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/23/2011 |
| Okay. But most of the others are Quest-centric (or at least War of the Ring-centric). Well, not Gandalf's. And I'm still not sure what's going on in the Frodo chapter. Then again, several decades of Aragorn's life have been focused on the goal of marrying Arwen.... It's all about Arwen, for him. === It wasn't till I'd read them all through that I realized each chapter was most likely a member of the Fellowship. Author Reply: Actually, if you go back through and read these, you'll find they're all in chronological order. It's just that most characters have moments that will easily be recognized during the Ring War. I wanted to end with something that was dealing with those days' legacy, though, and I'd long thought that Arwen ended up on the coins so that everyone would know what she looked like, even years in the future when someone dug up a coin hoard. Anyway, good job, you figured them all out! | |