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Sons of Fellowship by Conquistadora	9 Review(s)
mystarlight	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 12/19/2019
Thranduil having a fun is a rare sight. Love the atmosphere of this festival.

Robyn (IRDbabe)	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/25/2004
I've just made it through the entire story (hoping there's more!) and I just wanted to thank you for sharing it with everyone. I sort of stumbled across the website a couple of weeks ago, and was immediately captivated by your story synopsis. I appreciate when a writer wishes to "fill in the gaps"... "I Return" provided such a vivid description of the friendship between Gimli and Legolas, and deep insight into Legolas' motives and thoughts. You write with such deep imagery that I could see everything in my mind's eye. The characterization of Thranduil was not what I expected, but now that I'm further along in the story, it is entirely perfect. I hope you will continue the story, through the pair's adventures, and to its certain conclusion (much as I hate to say goodbye to these characters). Thank you again! Author Reply: Yes, there is certainly more! So glad you're enjoying it. I certainly hope you weren't expecting an Evil!Thranduil. shudder But then, most people expected a more explosive reaction than that. Still, my muse wouldn't stand for it. :) We'll be on to Erebor before we're finished, so just hang tight and I'll if I can't finish the next installment on a timely basis. ^_^

lwarren	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/22/2004
Once again, a beautiful combination of humor and Gimli and Elvenkings and Legolas! So many little jewels in this chapter...I suppose I could just rewrite the whole thing as examples. No? Redundant, I suppose. Ah well, it was marvelous and I thoroughly enjoyed the interaction between Gimli and Thranduil. snicker Hot tempered? Nah, ya think? I would love, too, to hear the little story behind Thranduil's tutoring of Aragorn on sword play. Well done, as usual, and so sad at the end when the King and others realize that they may have gotten their golden Prince back, but only for a time. Well done as usual - can't wait for that little "diplomatic" trip! p.s. I have solved the enigma of the computer about reviewing here (used to think I couldn't and would review at Eternal) and horror of horrors, it was my fault! Imagine that! Oh well, this story deserves 2 reviews at least!!!! ;) Author Reply: Yay! As far as Aragorn's fencing lesson goes, I think that would make a great chapter for WWYO, but I certainly have a long way to go until then. So, I have all this time to do some research and make it really good. :) The Thranduil-Gimli dialogue is a live-action example of putting two muses together and waiting until they strike up a conversation. ;)

daw the minstrel	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/22/2004
Lots going on here. I loved the Elvish play and the snapdragons in Legolas's and Thranduil's hair. And I was amused to see that Thranduil did NOT know about the Balrog. I suppose I wouldn't want to be the one to tell him either. I also liked the image of Legolas teasing his father and Gimli: "Getting along?" And I can see that Eomer and Thranduil might make a good pair. But Thranduil also knows what he is losing. Author Reply: Again, the Balrog seems like an unpleasant subject that most would rather not talk about, because "everybody already knows." They would probably just have been saying "Mithrandir fell," which is easy to do in Moria. That last bit opens into the next chapter, a kind of fluffy angsty thing. :)

Firnsarnien	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/22/2004
Ah, so many wonderful little moments. I loved how Thranduil showed Gimli how to feed his wolf. I loved how Legolas sent that grey ship to his father in askance of judgement and approval. I loved the crowds sadness at the fact that Leggy's heart had been called by the sea. I loved how everyone was so eager to dance with Legolas. I loved how Legolas asked his father and Gimli with hands on hips how they were getting along. I tell ya, so many wonderful moments in this chappy. It was nice too, to see Gimli and Thranduil having a civil conversation. It's definitely the love of that beautiful blond Elf that have them trying so hard. For his sake. :) sigh This celebration was such a nice, peaceful moment in in time. And long deserved for all. I'm glad you gave it to them! :) Hurry with the next chappy please! Pretty please, with a band of yellow snapdragons and a certain blond Elf's head within them? ;) Heh, heh! That ought to get you writing fast, huh? LOL Author Reply: No promises yet, but I'm working on it! An intriguing installment featuring both of these delightful Elves. We'll just let Gimli sleep the next chapter through. ;)

Lamiel	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/21/2004
Ah, what fun to be an Elf! Sindar or Silvan, they party like no one else in Middle Earth. This was a fun chapter, and certainly a big step for Gimli and Thranduil. I grinned all through the exchange, Thranduil's admission, "I am a bit hot tempered," and Gimli's response, "Is that so?" Snerk! And Thranduil's wolves are something else. I never have been able to train a dog to do that with a treat. The winding down at the end, creating the images from smoke and light with their songs, was lovely. And Legolas' ship complete with gulls was just breathtakingly beautiful, and heartbreaking. Ohhh... when I think of all that the Elves of Mirkwood went through, how hard and long they fought, and even now in victory they still must suffer their fate... sigh. Tolkien was cruel, in many ways. Brilliant, but cruel. Thank you, thank you for another beautiful chapter. Author Reply: I was able to teach my doggy how to do that. But then I was also able to teach her to push open her window and jump through. I've never tried to train something quite so massive as Thranduil's little darlings, but it had crossed my mind while my sister was wishfully shopping for one. :D Yes, but that's life, I suppose. Rather unforgiving. Something of a pessimist by nature, I guess that's why I like The Silmarillion so much. :)

Aislynn Crowdaughter	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/21/2004
Hi! This is a great story, that I have ben following with great delight from the start, and this one waas a beautiful chapter! I like the way you describe the elven festivities, it makes Mirkwood and his elves come alive and gives some depth to these short scenes of the Hobbit, where the Woodelves festivities are mentioned. Thranduil is a real lion in his den in this, and is really well drawn here. The relationship between father and son is clearly very close, and I loved the scene of te last chapter where Thranduil took first measure of Gimli in a private audience with him and Legolas. But the exchange in this cjapter at the table is greatly written and in parts, quite humourous. I loved the scene with Thranduils coughing fit when Gimli unwittingly mentioned that Balrog... Legolas will have some explaining to do later about his decision to go off on that quest in the first place and about what to tell his father about and what to leave out when writing letters to him, methinks... I love the idea that the forebears of the Rohirrim gifted the Mirkwood elves with their rider games before leaving for Roham, probably without being aware of it, and I was taken by Thranduils attitude to the Northmen who used to live near by and invented those games - as if it had been just yesterday they moved. Talk about elven perspective on time... well done! The last scene, with the ship, was beautiful: both meaningful and sad. Poor Thranduil, to just regain his son only to leave him again to the sea. well, at this point he doesn't know yet that it will be another century until Legolas actually does leave for Aman... Greatly done! Thank you! Aislynn Author Reply: Yes, there are a few small details of the Quest that Thranduil would like to have explained more plainly later. ;) Another strike at the myth of Thranduil's supposed isolationism. I can imagine the Northmen and the Wood-elves getting together for a day of good clean fun now and then. :) Maybe Ithilien was also Legolas' way of acclimating his father gently to the idea of him being gone most of the time. Not easily done when they've lived so long together. Poor guys . . .

mistry89	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/21/2004
The festivties, the interaction between Thranduil and Gimli, the physical prowess displayed, the dancing, the delight the evles take in Legolas's safe (and triumphant return), even Gimli's presence ... all dim in the face of the end of the chapter. More poignant because of the sheer good fun that had gone before. Thank you. Author Reply: I must be becoming something of an angst-monger; I can't seem to get through a single chapter without a touch of it. ;)

Ms. Whatsit	Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 4/21/2004
Oh, dear, that pesky sea-longing and that smoky ship...what a bittersweet ending to this chapter. But the rest of it was highly entertaining--almost like Gimli's an anthropologist observing the Wild Wood-Elf in its natural habitat! And the conversation between Thranduil and Gimli is priceless. "I am a bit hot-tempered." No, really? A mild-mannered fellow like you, Elvenking? You shock me. Gimli's reaction was the same as mine. I hope our poor Dwarf didn't drink too much Elven wine. I wonder how Gimli felt about that ship and the possibility of his dear friend vanishing on him--we didn't get to see much of that here, I guess because Gimli was tired and probably more than a bit tipsy! "In fact, I might well consider calling upon Elessar now that he has come into his own. It will not be forgotten that I taught that young buck what real swordsmanship was." Now there's an interesting bit of backstory! I bet Thranduil could give Aragorn a thing or two to think about, in swordplay and otherwise. I can just see it: Aragorn intoning "I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn," and Thranduil being quite unimpressed. And now I'm really curious as to how this trip to Erebor, with all of its "diplomatic errands" along the way, is going to be. Author Reply: I imagine there were some outstanding swordmasters in Rivendell, but Thranduil likely had a few intriguing tricks up his sleeve to catch young Aragorn flat-footed. :) At this point I'm rather curious about this trip, too. ^_^ I have the basics down, but the nitty-gritty details will be anyone's guess!

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