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| Ancestress by Dreamflower | 505 Review(s) |
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| D.Finnis-Robb | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 8/31/2023 |
| I hope you will forgive another note here but I feel that this sentence, "But yes, Melian was not the only one of my race to wed with one of the Children," might be slightly off. The Maiar are not a "race" of course, but were spirits of a higher order than that word implies. "People" could work here in the context of a conversation with someone as learned as Elrond, but even that is not quite right. Sorry, I should've mentioned I'm a teacher and have trouble enjoying work without making notes. | |
| D.Finnis-Robb | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 8/31/2023 |
| “As for your other question, it may have been destiny— I do not believe it was fate.” -Very happy to see an intelligent presentation of the difference between these two forces; it lies at the heart of Tolkien's writing and seems to be presented here with equal care. | |
| D.Finnis-Robb | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 8/31/2023 |
| "He looked once more at Mirimë’s changing eyes. She might look like an ordinary hobbit matron at the moment, but he could not quite forget that she was not any such thing. “I think you already know the answer to those questions in your heart, Frodo. Why does it distress you so?” Frodo gazed at her again, and then dropped his eyes. He sat there silent for a moment, and then rose from his chair. “Excuse me, Mirimë. Thank you for an excellent meal. Uncle Bilbo, I think I will retire now.” -An excellent moment caught simply and beautifully. | |
| D.Finnis-Robb | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 8/31/2023 |
| This is excellent and I am enjoying reading for the first and saving my comments for later. But one thing I noted here; Thranduil is lord of Greenwood here during Túk's time, but would it not be Oropher? Does that mean that Túk lived in the Third Age and Mirimë had been watching them for a long time before this? Or do you mean to say that hobbits are exclusive to the Third Age? | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 79 on 10/27/2015 |
| You left off here?! Well I can't say I haven't done the same before but I do hope you find your inspiration again soon! Author Reply: Not so much a lack of inspiration as a lack of time due to A Series of Events in RL, and the interruption of other stories in need of attention and an uncooperative computer. | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 10/26/2015 |
| This treads on questions in Christianity; specifically why, if God in omnipotent and all powerful, he allowed sin and all it's grief into the world. Most appropriate considering the Christian origin of much of Tolkein's inspiration. Author Reply: Thank you! I try to be very subtle in any hints of Christianity (as was Tolkien's own practice) in my stories. He tried to avoid anything overt or allegorical! as Arda was a pre-Christian world, and so do I, but in this story, which takes place in the West I am a bit moe willing to explore such questions than in those which take place East of the Sundering Sea. I hope to get back to this story very soon. | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 10/26/2015 |
| Hobbits are the steady quarter notes, half notes and whole notes that fill the entire notation from top to bottom of a musician's sheet music with not room left for but the most fleeting measures of melody... yet without them and the 3rd position flutists, 4th seat violinists, tubas, violas and so forth that play them the music would be less rich and the melody would falter. That is what hobbits are. Unseen and indispensable. Author Reply: Beautifully put, my dear! Thank you for extending the metaphor in such a lovely manner! | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/26/2015 |
| I wonder what kind of ribbing that unfortunate elf got for his clumsiness once back in the halls of Greenwood?! Author Reply: LOL! I'm sure he got. Some, though of course it wasn't his fault. And I'm sure it would never occur to them to blame Yavanna's handmaiden. ;) | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 10/26/2015 |
| Run a hobbit dry on genealogy? She must be something indeed! Author Reply: She's quite thirsty for any news she can get of her family. She is taking shameless advantage of her new "grandchildren" to get it. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 79 on 3/5/2015 |
| "his Gamgees" :) Gotta love it. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Well, he does feel that way about them. *grin* | |