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Gold Like Tears  by Zimraphel 6 Review(s)
MithLuinReviewed Chapter: 6 on 2/10/2007
Oh, my...this story is so...so...not horrible, but bittersweet. The gold is always given as a gift, out of love. It is never...well, often cursed gold is fought over, but this is so innocent. But poor Elrond, it has (in a way) cost him his brother, his wife and his daughter. The theme of needing to destroy a persistent bit of gold somehow fits in very well in Middle Earth! and yet seems to be freshly new and original.

AnieniReviewed Chapter: 6 on 6/23/2005
My God! Not often does one come across such a wonderfully written and carefully thought story.

Sometimes it is only true that we can not avoid fate, this is a bittersweet reminder of that.

Thank you for a most enjoyable read.

Anieni

LushaReviewed Chapter: 6 on 2/20/2004
This story's been facinating and so real, it somehow almost seems like a piece of lost history regarding Middle-Earth and my very favorite elf, Glorfindel.
Keep at this. You're good.

khazar-khumReviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/12/2003
This is fantastic--by far and away one of the finest pieces of fiction I have ever read. Not just fanfic, but all fiction. I just don't have enough priase for this.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/11/2003
I thought that Arwen would probably be the next owner of the gold. How sad, and yet I can't entirely mourn. The love of Aragorn was her joy as well as her doom.

NilmandraReviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/11/2003
There is much one could read into an end such as this for the ill-starred gold bead. An end, a death, and a new begining.

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