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| New beginnings by perelleth | 6 Review(s) |
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| Imrahoil | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/26/2005 |
| This gets better and better. Thank you very much for some badly needed laughter. “lest you end up sending my son in some suicidal mission...” Nobody's thinking about your son in that capacity, Oropher! ;-) Author Reply: Yes, Oropher is a bit exasperating..I've met some people just like him, always able to find a bard side to every issue... I'm glad to have provided needed laughter. I had great fun writing this story, and it is good to learn that it comes through! Keep aboard, there's still a bit more of silliness looming :-) | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/26/2005 |
| There are entirely too many things to laugh at in this chapter...not the least of which is a soaked Celeborn and an enraged prince trying to strangle Elrond. I think the other thing that is humorous is really the youth of so many of those present. Ereinion and Elrond and Elros...the edain... the children...Finarfin must think he has stumbled into a nursery school! But Ereinion humbles himself in the end to his king, and I cannot help but wonder how Finarfin reacts? Author Reply: Were it not for Círdan, Finarfin must feel truly akward, you're right :-)IT was truly a time of change, with many new people standing forth and so few of the elders remaining...the change of generation is always a confusing time! But Ereinion humbles himself in the end to his king, and I cannot help but wonder how Finarfin reacts? Ah, we'll hear of that conversation in next chapter I fear! :-) Ereinion won't be receiving lessons in waving his hand, though! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/25/2005 |
| Oh my, this was a circus so I guess it was appropriate that they were in a tent! :-) It all looked like it was so starting simply with one single dwarf and Gil-galad firmly in control. That didn't last long! Utter chaos. “I…apologize for beating you in front of Círdan and your King, Lord Ereinion.” I spit my drink on my monitor when I read that! And it only got worse from there. Hilarious! Author Reply: Hope you're monitor is OK.. ;-) Oropher is rather exasperating, isn't he? Things tend to progress like that, from bad to worse down to the deepest foundations of failure, as one of my bosses used to say. I must confess that I laughed, too, when I wrote this chapter...even if I was a bit terrified as the cast seemed to swell to no end... | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/25/2005 |
| Ereinion never gets a break, does he? One day, he will learn the magic of delegating. Until then, he's stuck with an increasing buildup of people who all need him right now. Unlucky for him, but a comic goldmine for the rest of us. I loved seeing him try to imitate Finarfin's wave, and the introduction to Thranduil was just priceless. Author Reply: Ho, you're right! Ereinion is needing an MBA...:-) Anyway, even the magic of delegation has its comebacks and, no matter how perfectly scheduled all projects and comissions are, there comes a day when everybody needs your input right at the same time and everybody bumps into your door or tent!:-) You picked the waving thing! I'm told that it is a very difficult skill.... | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/25/2005 |
| Poor, poor Ereinion. Someone should fix up a padded wall for him to bang his head against without really hurting himself. 'Long years spent pretending that everything was fine while he grew up as a lonesome Noldo among Teleri had taught Ereinion to keep a good grip of his emotions. . .' Poor, poor Ereinion. He deserves a happy ever after - I hope the Second Age is good to him. (At least until the end!) Oropher is a very annoying brat. I enjoyed his son turning up and making things difficult for him. May he do it many more times. At least the shipwright knows a good lad when he sees one. (It must be very aggravating to be a king only when it suits people - and disregarded when it doesn't.) I love Elros - and the dispute over the word 'timber'. Perhaps Cirdan should make them swim. I'm sure Olvarin would like to. Although he needn't strangle Elrond in mistake for Elros! Ingil proved useful, though, so I might forgive him for shining so intensely with his own perfection. And he gets to do the family trees for Olvarin - because he's the one who has him in a headlock! This shouldn't be too long in coming, though - a good kinslapping was in order - in order and shortly to be delivered. Brilliant. At least Ereinion is able to make some impression on the youngsters. Still they - and Elros and Elrond - are probably the only people around younger than he is. He is going to be rather relieved when - if - he ever manages to pack all these people off to east and west and put his feet up. I just love the chaos and piling of Pelion on Ossa. Everything that happens just makes it all worse. Lovely. Author Reply: The exercise of responsibilities without actual power is one of the most tiresome burdens I can think of (and one very common nowadays, when almost everything has to be negotiated and agreed by all parties even remotely involved!) That's why I so deeply sympathize with Gil-galad, a king of convenience, in a moment when not everybody was actaully ready to admit that he was king indeed... I suspect he must have developed a strong sense of self and must have learnt to enjoy what life offered to him at each moment, for his is not a life to be envied,in my pov... I suspect he is one who must have welcome Mandos hospitality with some measure of relief! :-) Everything that happens just makes it all worse. ROTFL I hadn't thought of that! it simply felt... natural chaos, as life tends to be? :-) Thanks for your words, bodkin! | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 8/25/2005 |
| Wow. That was confusing even for me as I read it. I can't imagine being Gil-galad. That tent must have been bulging with people and energy! What a job sorting all those needs out was. Author Reply: Apologies for the headache! I had to laugh as I read this....HAve you seeen a movie by the Marx Brothers (groucho and co) in which many different people are stacked in a ship cabin and Groucho keeps calling the waiter and ordering food while his "guests" are crammed inside? That scene suddenly came to my mind as I was writing this chapter and then I was lost...:-) | |