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| Lesser Ring by Larner | 344 Review(s) |
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| GoodyWuss | Reviewed Chapter: 51 on 10/17/2022 |
| I thorooughly enjoyed this story. Thank you. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 11/13/2021 |
| I hope that others appreciate the story I’ve written and that it will continue to be happily read in the future. Thanks for reading this far. Definitely happy to be rereading this masterpiece so long after you first crafted it Larner. It has brought me joy yet again. Hugs 🫂 | |
| Skippy | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 7/12/2020 |
| This is my favorite of all of your stories. Please write the story of King Elessar’s journey to Camilla with his family and friends to see Lord Benai and Lady Nera married and a new realm of the Dunedain joined with Gondor and Arnor. I would very much like to read such a tale. | |
| Freyalyn | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 7/7/2019 |
| I think this has got to be my favourite of all of your tales. The depth and detail that you've put into the worlds around the world that JRRT has left us with leaves me astounded every time. The idea of Camaloa is just wonderful, the careful adaption of ancient Egypt into the well realised culture of Harad, the suggestions of other races and ways of living yet further away... And an interesting comment you made in your endnotes about the minstrel and how he is struggling to adapt to the king he has found against the king he thought he'd have after Denethor's stewardship. I wonder how Hurin and Lynesse and others who were close to Denethor found themselves adapting to the new rule? We get detail on how Faramir loved his new king from the start, but I wonder how the others managed. (And if you think that's a gentle hint - you'd not be wrong.) | |
| MP brennan | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 5/23/2013 |
| Hey Larner! Now that I finally have a little bit of time on my hands, I've been reading through this fic. Just wanted to let you know how much I'm enjoying it so far. The world-building in this story is really remarkable--none of it feels familiar or cliched and all of it feels very real and multifaceted. I especially love how you've interwoven the canon of the Valar with influences from the Egyptian pantheon (at least, I assume they're all Egyptian? my liberal arts education is getting rusty;). It might take me a while to read through the whole thing, but you definitely have me hooked. -Brennan Author Reply: Yes, I deliberately chose to model the Haradrim on Egyptian influences. One of my favorite books when I was in Junior High was "Mara, Daughter of the Nile," in case you hadn't guessed. It's wonderful to find that it is still popular so many years later! Also, my mother managed to pass onto me her own enthusiasm for archaeology and Egyptian anthropology. And I'm thrilled you feel the story is both original and believable. Thank you so! I so hope you continue to enjoy it. | |
| Szepilona10 | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 6/12/2009 |
| "Aragorn shrugged. “It’s a difficult art to develop at the first, for it is harsh on the lungs; and some I’ve had to advise to stop its practice. However, when I am under stress it appears to help me calm and think.”" Aragorn sounds just like my dad right there, he loves his pipe! Author Reply: I'm going by what those in my family have told me of how smoking affected them. My father and brother both smoked pipes, although my stepfather smoked only cigarettes. My dad died when I was a baby; my stepfather stopped smoking back in the mid-sixties, and died a couple years back in his eighties. I wish my mother had lived that long! | |
| Szepilona10 | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 6/11/2009 |
| Does Hildigor have a girl he likes? Author Reply: I suspect Hildigor did have a girl he liked, but haven't gotten that far as yet! He will eventually appear in other stories, God willing I get to write all I'd like to do! Am glad you appreciate him here! | |
| Szepilona10 | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 6/11/2009 |
| “I thought they didn’t know horses, Papa.” This is my favorite line in this story! I love little Elfwine! Author Reply: Oh, am so glad you do, Szepilona! He strikes me as one who would only truly respect horsemen at this time in his life! Heh! | |
| Szepilona10 | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 6/10/2009 |
| Does Hildigor smoke? (I think he's handsome!:D) Author Reply: I'm not certain whether or not Hildigor smokes, really. And of course he's handsome--he is Dunedain, after all! Good to hear from you. I do have a pair of Halbarad drabbles in "'Neath Anor, Ithil, and Gil," by the way! And am so glad you are enjoying this story! | |
| Tigger | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 8/5/2008 |
| Hello M'dear, I was looking through my Favourite Stories list here the other night wanting something I haven't read in awhile and my eyes lit on the link to this. It has been a long time since I've read it, so clicked on it and... It's taken a couple of days, but this is such a wonderful story. It's been so much fun to revisit our favourite friends and family from Middle Earth's visit to Harad and then the Haradi Royals return visit to Gondor. It certainly has helped to pass the time of this latest bout of Insommnia and I thank you so much for that. Now to go and read the latest chapter for The Tenant From Staddle. I understand we've been invited to a Wedding? :oD Thanks again for writing and sharing this story w/us my friend. I really do need to print this one off one of these days, so I have it w/me whenever and where ever I am and would like to re read it again. :o) Author Reply: I'm glad to see this story gets occasional rereadings. I'm not fighting insomnia as much as stress, I find, and it does get old after a time. One day I'll print off all my own stories, although I suspect I'll go through a LOT of ink cartridges in the doing! Heh! | |