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| Natural Children by French Pony | 48 Review(s) |
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| Vaire Elentari | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/8/2007 |
| That was amazing! I love how people like to analyze the relationship of Maglor and the children. I thought that that situation was odd. He destroyed their home and took them into his. I had first thought that they were meant to be hostages but then I read that there was love between them. My jaw dropped open for a moment but then I thought that he must've felt guilty for what happen to Elured and Elurin at Doriath. This was a interesting twist on that story. | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 3/1/2007 |
| I was egaer to read this chapter and then found out that it was the last! I really enjoyed it, FP. You ahve suhc a talent for the realistic day to day as well as for emotions! What I most liked in this tale was MAglorīs characterization as a country lord in his manor. (I pictured him like that with his tweed cap and his riding boots...and the shawl in this chapter was a great touch!!!) BUt I also loved Maedhros, and his fierce defence of his borhter. As you say, a family, of a kind, yet a family. I buy that. and it showed clearly in this tale. Congratulations! | |
| grumpy | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/25/2007 |
| I am coming out of lurkdom, to tell you that I have enjoyed each and every chapter of this story, I found it very facisnating, the goings on between the twins and Maglor. You made it all so real. Thanks for the good read. | |
| JastaElf | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/25/2007 |
| LOL! Sorry, it WAS rather bad of us to talk about a book and then not tell... It's the Camber of Culdi trilogy by Katherine Kurtz. Specifically, Camber the Heretic. Rhys is a lovely character, a Deryni healer, and he dies... by striking his head on a step during a nasty indoor battle, when he slips on some blood on the floor. Wham. Brilliantly done, and horribly painful to read.... Anyway! I'm sad to see this story end, but OH what a wonderful tale it has been! So beautifully, realistically characterized... such superb dialogue and inner workings... just lovely and perfect! Thank you so much for sharing more of your genius with us. Is there any chance we'll ever get to see maybe a short story in situ at Sirion? With Little!Twins and big, blood-covered, yelling Sons of Feanor?? *looks hopeful* In any case... I will adore anything you write. *g* Thank you SO much for this great tale! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/20/2007 |
| I can't help but think - poor Maglor. I hope his relationship with Elwing's sons brought him some comfort. And, actually, I can feel sorry for poor tormented Maedhros, too. The rest of Feanor's sons - blah. Cardboard cutouts. But poor Elros and Elrond, too. The fact that they weren't crazy crack-head (or Middle-earth equivalent) kids is probably down to Maglor's care more than anything else. But what a family situation! Tolkien didn't make it easy on any of them. I'm glad to see them coming to a better understanding of each other. | |
| ponypetter | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/15/2007 |
| What a fitting end. Maglor is such a tragic character, moreso than any other I can think of. We can see the true remorse in his character, a facet I don't think is seen in the others, like Maedhros. Maedhros regrets the loss of his family, but Maglor seems to understand he's lost much more than that. I think that's why he was drawn to the twins. | |
| SurgicalSteel | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/13/2007 |
| Firstly, I very much enjoyed this story - portrays the remaining sons of Feanor as complex people who were forced to make decisions that they didn't much like sometimes. And Maglor, especially, as somewhat sympathetic, and someone who's trying very much to do right by the twins. That book that Jay of Lasgalen and JastaElf were discussing? Unless I'm very much mistaked, it's Camber the Heretic by Katherine Kurtz - it's the third book in a trilogy: Camber of Culdi, Saint Camber, and Camber the Heretic. Well worth a read. | |
| meckinock | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/12/2007 |
| I'm glad that Elros feels better. About everything. He was so crushed when he realized he had destroyed (in his mind) his comfortable, happy family. I was glad when he woke up and saw that Elrond was all right, and overheard Maglor and Maedhros talking about him, and realized he was forgiven. I wasn't left quite certain if it was forgiveness he needed, or just peace, though. Sometimes we have to shut our eyes to things about the people we love in order to keep loving them. He realizes now that Maglor is not going to kill him and Elrond, but has he made peace with what happened in the past or has he just decided the present is more important? Whatever the answer, the warm, loving interaction between these characters was very well done and it left me wanting to believe in it, too. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/12/2007 |
| Yes, a proper family they make, this melding of what children and foster parent from both sides of a pointless quarrel made out of pride gone beyond hubris, a pride that destroyed so very much. And it has sparked something for the end of my own story, once I get that far, of course--have a good deal more to look at before I get that far. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 2/12/2007 |
| Poor children, both of them as they seek to make sense of it all. | |