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| The Nan Elmoth Apprentice by French Pony | 16 Review(s) |
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| Lainey | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/29/2009 |
| Nice work! Maeglin and Aredhel are two of my favorite characters and I often feel there is not enough fanfiction centered around them. Thanks for writing! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/19/2005 |
| Catching up again... First let me say that I am really sorry this story is over and I hope you write more Eol and Maeglin again. I really think you did a great job showing Eol as a character who was messed up but just didn't see that in himself and showing the child's transformation from Lómion to Maeglin. I particularly like in this last chapter when Aredhel calls him Maeglin and Eol calls him Lómion while trying to comfort him. That was very powerful. Great story! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/17/2005 |
| Poor Maeglin. Although he should realise that if his mother is to keep the peace for him, she will have to accept Eol's name. And, in her heart, he will always be Lomion. This is not a happy household. It's no wonder Maeglin turned out the way he did. | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005 |
| Sometimes I feel very sad for children. You see them when they're little, and they're all vulnerable and hopeful and eager for life. And so many of them get just beaten down by life. Every twisted adult you see was once like that. | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005 |
| Now! you got me going back to see how exactly Aredhel addressed her son in his father's presence, you clever FP :-) This is a disturbing subject in general terms, yet the thing around the naming is an intersting event in Maeglin's turbulent life. I must confess that I never understood Eöl, either, and that sentence saying that "It was never told that Aredhel wasn't happy..." in the Silm always made me wonder. Kind of dwarvish elf, if there ever was one! Anyway it was very interesting to read about this strange family! I hope you find time and inspiration to keep elaborating on them! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005 |
| Poor Maeglin.... he is torn between these two people who fight over him in ways far more subtle than two gulls fighting over a fish. He went from having an indefnite identity to two identities and now only one... and what a shock to him. Very sad. | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/14/2005 |
| So behind in my reading...as in the rest of things! sorry. This is a sad story, I fear. I'm curious to see how Maeglin develops his love for the forge and his own name, for the fact that he was known by that name till his end may suggest that he learnt to love it, doesn´t it? Strange elf, this Eöl. You´re managing to give sense to that sentence int he SIlm when it says that Maeglin was kind of dark fruit of the kinslaying... interesting subject, Fp, and the boy´s pov is very engaging! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/9/2005 |
| Sadly, given what we know of Eol from the Silmarillion, I think you have his character absolutely perfect here. I can so see him flinging out the name and not giving it another thought because it is his to give; I can so see him saying to his wife 'you will return'; I can so see him dealing with Maeglin in the forge that way and then giving him a coin--something to possess. Poor Maeglin--you can really see parts of his canon personality developing here too. This is really powerful stuff, FP. I really like this one a lot! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/9/2005 |
| Poor child. Between the devil and the deep blue sea. It's no wonder he turned out less than he could have been. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/8/2005 |
| You know, on the one hand, one can say that Eol was not entirely unkind, that he had some respect for his son's skills and aptitude. He seemed to be a decent teacher. Yet, in that time spent together, he completely shattered the trust between child and mother by telling him that Aredhel had left him, and that she had done it before. The work seems hard for a child of 10 too... and the fact that he was too tired to play in the forest and he was sore proves this. The childhood of the Eldar is supposed to wonderful and carefree, but we see a child who sees his worth in what he does, not in who he is. Its a very sad childhood you're establishing for Maeglin. | |