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Enter the Ranger  by Larner 3 Review(s)
ErulisséReviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 1/20/2024
Wow. I love this story so much. I’ve come back to re-read it now, because I enjoyed it so much the first time. Such a phenomenal portrayal of beloved characters, and fantastic new OCs that I feel like I know now. It was so cool to have a closer look at Halbarad and some of the other lords of the Dúnedain who don’t get as much attention. And I also thought it was very clever not to have written this story from Aragorn’s perspective, but from that of other people, since this story was about Aragorn being introduced to his people and the formation of their opinion of him.

I love reading on SoA, and I was wondering what your favorite story/stories were on this site that you would recommend to someone else? I’ve read quite a bit on here, but I know there are many stories I have yet to discover. Thank you so much!

FreyalynReviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 9/22/2019
Just discovered your comments here. Thank you for sharing this story with us, and also your thoughts as to how you came to your own vision of Tolkien's sub-creation. I've enjoyed every word you've written, and will be keenly awaiting more.

Author Reply: It's satisfying to explain how the stories came to be, Freyalyn, and it was fun to bring this story full-circle with Eldarion coming north to himself ride with the Rangers of Arnor, as well as to refer once again to the people of Camaloa and to see them coming at last to recognition and prominence in the world.

Thanks so!

MattReviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 9/15/2019
As you know I'm not visiting SoA as much as I used to. I stopped by today and was both glad and sad to see this story completed. An excellent job. Out of curiosity, as I too like "returned Aragorn" stories a great deal, what stories other than Radbooks' excellent piece and Aspects of Aragorn (which I know isn't truly a return of Aragorn tale by itself) can you recommend? I know I've read others but can't find them in my ffn favorites right now. I would be very interested in that elopement fic you mention in the notes as I think it would give us a tremendous view of the differences (in your universe at least) between what are in some ways the most and least sophisticated (or at least economically complex) parts of Middle Earth. Thanks again for your hard work on this, looking forward to future tales in this direction...and any recommendations you can offer.

Author Reply: Nor am I visiting as often as I did, Matt. I'm a half year from turning seventy, and it's making itself known to me. The Shire and the rest of Middle-earth still enchant me, but it's taking so much longer to get things written and posted! I'm still working, and it's once more not being as much fun as it once was. As for the governments of the U.S. and Britain--it appears that Lotho has put himself in charge of both lands!


I didn't read as many Aragorn stories on FF.n as I did on HASA, and as I said, that has closed down. I've not sought for them on AnArchiveOfOurOwn, so what I remember from HASA I haven't learned whether or not they were transferred as my stories were. One was called something to the order of "In the Bloody Cottage," and in it was told the birth of Aragorn. It was a rather dark tale in which the Northern Dunedain were depicted as dwindling, with the women devoted to producing sons to protect their land with few seeking to produce daughters to continue their people. Rather nihilistic, I thought. Halbeleg was the name given Gilraen's brother in an Aragorn Returned story I read there, and it was from that I took the name, although my brain insisted on spelling it with an /a/ rather than the initial /e/. I fear that I remember little of the details of that story, other than the spelling of the name, of course. But in it Aragorn came back to the Angle to learn the rule of their people from this uncle.

I hope to eventually write the story of Gilthor and Arien--but first I have so many tales to finish!

Thanks so much for following this tale, and perhaps I'll add more of young Aragorn as time goes on.

Have you read Fiondil's story of Aragorn among the Rohirrim? It's here on SoA. And Virtuella, I think, did one of that time as well, in which Aragorn was not introduced as quite as accomplished as he was in Fiondil's tale.

Take care and God bless.


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