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| We Were Young Once ~ I by Conquistadora | 9 Review(s) |
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| Starlight and Moonlight | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 8/30/2021 |
| I'm officially rereading this! And I'd forgotten how beautiful and talented your writing is! I love it so, so much!!! | |
| mystarlight | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 11/11/2019 |
| I reread this chapter after Red Winter and found other amazing details. Was Thranduil given a choice to be a kinslayer or a traitor? Another is that kinslayers tried to blame Elves in Doriath to help their consciences? Wonderful transformation of Thranduil as a young man to a warrior hunted by Elves he had to kill to survive and who lost almost ability to enjoy his life. In Red Winter you portrayed brilliantly how his body reacted to first killing and fear to be killed. I am in the seventh heaven that you are going to continue your stories. | |
| mystarlight | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/31/2019 |
| Love young Thranduil and your ideas for his past. Thank you for writing and sharing your wonderful story. | |
| Stephanie | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/10/2005 |
| I love the manner in which you write. You certainly have the utmost command of your pen! I loved this chapter! The only thing that was wrong, due to my own ignorance, is that I do not know who some of these characters are. Can you tell me what book(s) to read so that I can get acquainted with these wonderful characters so that I can fully enjoy your well written work? I have read some of Tolkien's work but not all of it. Your story really gets me interested in more of it. Author Reply: Hey! Welcome aboard! You know, I really don't run into too many other Stephanies out there. ;) Anyway, thanks for a great review; I needed that bit of encouragement to finally get going on my homework. I can easily forgive you for not knowing many of the characters, because several of them are my own! Feel free to e-mail me anytime about anything and I'll clear it up for ya. But if you haven't read The Silmarillion yet, it would be a huge help for you especially here at the beginning. There will be Sil references throughout, but eventually we'll make it into the realm of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. ;) Hope that helps! If not, I'm here to answer questions. ~ Stephanie (a.k.a. Coriel) ^_~ | |
| TithenFeredir | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/14/2005 |
| What a great beginning! Oropher has always been "the late" to me, it is wonderful to see him brought to life! I love your troubled young Thranduil, so full of doubt. Your imagery is very good; the story played in my head like a movie. You did a nice blending of the larger historical references with intimate little details, like the way the fiddled with their hair. The ending has me stoked to read on! TF Author Reply: Oh, good! It plays like a movie in my mind too, but sometimes that can be difficult to portray in words. Welcome aboard, and I hope you enjoy the rest just as much! :) | |
| lwarren | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/22/2004 |
| Well, I'm hooked!! I don't know too much about Oropher and only a little more about Thranduil, but this seems like a great way to discover how they made their way to the Greenwood. I especially liked the way you had Oropher extend his hand to pull Thranduil up...not just from the dock, but from that dark place he seemed sunk in. I know you said something about taking this story a LONG way -- and I say Hooray for longggg voyages! Count me in! I'll be eagerly watching for the next installment! Author Reply: Glad to have you! But don't expect a swift departure. This bit has been moved to the back-burner to ruminate and develop a plotline in more extensive detail while I RETURN plods along to it's end. Maybe, someday, I'll finish it. :P Can you say 50+, or even 60+ chapters? (I will never learn!) | |
| Ginger Rich | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/8/2004 |
| Beautiful chapter. The description of the dock and sea was amazing. I wanted to go there and sit around (and be lazy). Your Thranduil and Oropher are wonderfully written. I'm already a fan of the story. Keep it up. Author Reply: Thanks! I'm looking forward to continuing it, but I need to finish a few things first. :) | |
| mistry89 | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/4/2004 |
| "And as if to add insult to injury, and injury to the insult, the aggressors had perforce thrust their own shame upon him by their deeds. The felling of Orcs had been nothing to him, and his sword had been no virgin when they were assaulted that winter. But now he had profaned his own hands with the blood of Elves, placed impossibly between choosing the part of Kinslayer or Traitor. There was no guilt; their deaths were no fault of his. There was only numb regret, for, guilty or no, he was heir now to the same shadow." Makes beautiful sense to me - Thranduil had a long memory, not a black, greedy heart. "..in truth, watching his son languish in idleness had become one of his cardinal motivations to be gone from this place. As Melian had said, here was one spark of Elu’s fire, and he would not see it smothered." And Oropher, too, not led (only) by dreams of ruling rather than being ruled, but by his love for his son and for lost Doriath and those who are gone. Memory is truly a slice of immortality in the here-and-now. A fitting and right-feeling, right-sounding, glimpse of a pre-Last Alliance Thranduil (and Oropher - I *know* too little about him, yet). Thranduil has long been a favourite of mine (probably because I read The Hobbit far too young and became fascinated by the elves Thank you, seeing the formation of a new realm (if you are going to take it that far) will be fascinating. Author Reply: That's my job, to pull out right-feeling, right-sounding redefinitions of established canon. :) At present I intend to take this a LONG way, but updates may not be as forthcoming as usual. *sigh* The real world demands a piece of me. | |
| Ms. Whatsit | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/3/2004 |
| I like your Oropher a lot. He, I think, is both neglected and misrepresented in fanfic, which is a shame because he is such an interesting character. Your take on his motivations and his relationship with Thranduil is intriguing, and it makes him out to be more than the belligerent hothead he usually is made out to be. You can see the ambition and the pride and also the love and goodwill that he has. I'm looking forward to reading more of this. Author Reply: Thanks! I haven't known Oropher very long, but I certainly don't think he deserves the single dimension he's often given. At present I intend to do a lot with this story (if it were a sentence, it would probably be called a run-on), but I'll probably take my time with it. :) | |