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| Blood and Fire by Clodia | 41 Review(s) |
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| mystarlight | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 8/27/2018 |
| I really love it thank you for writing and sharing your wonderful story Author Reply: Thank you so much for stopping to leave a review! I'm really grateful to hear you enjoyed this. | |
| mipHOWlmGUl | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 2/8/2012 |
| July 29, 2011 at 4:18 amvery nice text efceft Reply Author Reply: Thank you! | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 12/28/2009 |
| A wonderful story! around their pitiful fire they all look and sound like homeless battered beggars out of a heavy storm. And no wonder, with such losses. I really liked this take of the fall of MEnegroth. Their helplessness and shock are so clear here! Hope, or ignorance is all they have left for now. Author Reply: You sum up their position beautifully. And I want to thank you again for all your reviews, here and at FFN: it's been really wonderful hearing what you think and I am so very glad you enjoyed the story! | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 12/28/2009 |
| This oropher laways makes me laugh, so matter of factly and all down to business...A good guide to follow out of a tight place. Author Reply: That's precisely the Oropher I wanted to convey throughout the story. I thought Green-elves wouldn't have much time for elaborate poetic conceits like honourable deaths and so on. Well, I suppose it would depend on the place and the Green-elf, but certainly this wouldn't be a good time to be anything less than down to business. ^^ | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/28/2009 |
| Wow! You set it all up so nicely that even knowing that Galadriel sails with Frodo, for a minute I feared she would be hacked down as Dior was! But what a blow for her, to be the one who lost Dior's sons! THat was awfully dramatic! I was wincing all along. Author Reply: I'm so glad you thought it was dramatic! It does make me happy to hear that even though Canon Says Galadriel survives, there's a sense of danger in this chapter. The fact that everyone knows the outcome before they begin this sort of story is a drawback in some ways, but on the other hand -- it let me play with a lot of black irony all the way through, and in this chapter especially. And this scene really underlies my idea of later events at Sirion, although I may never write that directly, just as the whole story is pretty much key to my idea of the various characters involved, so it's always such a relief to hear it works. | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/28/2009 |
| Oops! This was so fast! A good one! Author Reply: Yes, the inevitable slaughter was rather fast. I suppose it depressed me too much to want to linger on it. :( | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/28/2009 |
| I'm so glad to find you here, because this place is far more comfortable to me than ffnet, so I can now follow you more easily. I loved this chaper, the contrapunto of scenes, and the echoes of fight spilling into the passages... And Dior's otherworldlessness (is thatt even a word?) clear in the way he let the Noldo's taunts glide over him. I particularly liked this retort: “And you have nothing to show for it,” said Dior, parrying effortlessly, “other than lost kingdoms and bloody hands.” And then the insults and taunts about the dog ended up almost childish and even amusing, and still they fought...until one of them did not. Author Reply: I'm so glad you found me here! I haven't been here all that long and I'm currently not archiving the Beleriand Treasury pastiches anywhere but FFN and LJ, just so that you know. And thanks for all your lovely reviews -- you always pick up such essential details and it really made my day. :D I hope you don't mind me filling your in-box with replies. It's wonderful to hear you loved this chapter -- in so many ways, it encapsulates so much of what I wanted to say in this story, about Dior especially. I know what you mean by 'otherworldlessness' and it's precisely what I wanted to get across, really. And that retort, too: the fact that everything the Noldor did in the end brought them nothing... | |
| WendWriter | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 11/16/2009 |
| That is such a brilliant twist! You really are a great writer. I thought you were good, but I never knew you were this good. Excellent, wonderful stuff. Dang, I'm out of superlatives! Author Reply: *g* Again, it made sense to me; and the options were limited... You will be bored of hearing it, but again -- thank you! Both for reading, for all your comments, and for being so kind. I'm so glad you enjoyed the story! Clodia | |
| WendWriter | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 11/16/2009 |
| I took a different route with my own tale of Menegroth, but this is certainly logical and well thought out. The melancholy atmosphere that pervades this chapter coupled with the grim scenes of the river crossing gives us a deeper empathy with the survivors. Author Reply: The options for escaping a besieged underground fortress with only one exit seemed very limited to me; I'm glad this makes sense to you, and that the atmosphere works! | |
| WendWriter | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/16/2009 |
| Galadriel's helplessness in the face of her cousins' soldiers' kidnapping of the sons of Dior would have haunted her for ages afterwards. Her claim of Elwing being her own child was a great idea. It's interesting to see how maternal she becomes at this moment - trickles of inspiration are flowing through my mind as I consider the fun I could have with the scenario you have presented here. If I do get around to writing about this, I'll credit you. Author Reply: I'm sure Galadriel would have been very much affected by the fall and her own helplessness during it. Her later relationship with Elwing certainly has a lot of potential and I'm considering writing about it one day myself; but there's room for everyone to play, of course! | |