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| The Unquenchable Light by Virtuella | 2 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 3/17/2025 |
| So little lies make a rider heavier. No wonder the palantír was so difficult to transport! The people on the ships sound reluctant and misinformed. Has it ever occurred to them that their truth might have been twisted? Pallando's strategy sounds interesting. It obviously assumes the Krâ are not evil. The commander definitely sounds confused: he certainly also hadn’t expected this, whatever it was. They certainly were not prepared to meet a Hwenti onslaught. Party hearty? Make merry, not war? (I wonder what the Hwenti would think of being described as "the cavalry coming over the hill"?) Author Reply: Well, the Hwenti are unpredictable, but they do follow their own agenda, which is benign enough. [ It obviously assumes the Krâ are not evil.] For my taste, Tolkien is too ready to call entire nations, even entire species evil. I realise this kind of goes with the genre, but it still irks me. So no, they are not evil. Nor are they misinformed. Naïve, might be a better word. And things look quite different from their perspective. | |
| Leithian | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 2/22/2025 |
| Thanks for another amazing chapter. I like the little touches you've given e.g. Jarin being heavier for Wan after telling a lie and the Steppe life of the Krâ. The citizens of Mil Nahara singing their 'national anthem' reminds me of that scene in Casablanca. BTW what is Hwenti? Is it a name for the elves? The commander that was worried about being poisoned should've remembered that if the Elves wanted to kill him they would've done so without him ever knowing lol. I don't know about your story, but if the Krâ are based on steppe tribes, they would be pretty warlike I think. There are always occasional skirmishes over flocks, water Wells, and grazing pastures. So I'd disagree with Pallando, but plz tell me if I'm wrong about the Krâ in your story. Waiting eagerly to see Hamujil's plan in action. Till then Author Reply: I never really sat my reader down and spelled it out; the information is dotted across the story: There are two distinct groups of Kra. The steppe tribes, which are warlike as you say, are the ones that turn up in the original book as the "Easterlings." We don't really encounter them in this story apart from a few glimpses. The settled Kra, however, are - though ethnically the same - culturally and economically different; they are an agricultural society. They are the Kra that the Kuzeen interact with. I hope this clarifies things! "Hwenti" is a word I found on some Tolkien website as a term for the surviving Cuivenen avari elves. If you squint, you can see that the word is related to the word "Quenya." I am using in interchangeably with "elves." Thanks for commenting! | |