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| Many fruitless victories by perelleth | 35 Review(s) |
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| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 6/4/2005 |
This is a very promising opening. Doomsday stories are actually very hopeful if you beleive the protagonists with prevail and stave off the End-of-the-world. But, can *this* be stopped? And why try? Just for the sake of the good fight and noble defeat? - Nice choice of title. Your quick introduction was very skillfully written. If you writing this in an effort to show how to do modern-times stories right, you have made a perfect start. Author Reply: Thank you for your kind words,Redheredh! I suppose that some things are what they are, and how we face them is what matters, despite the result. That's what I love about Tolkien's approach in LoTR ( and can be traced in the Silm, too) "If you writing this in an effort to show how to do modern-times stories right, you have made a perfect start." You made me blush! You se, the thing is I do not read modern-times stories as a rule, and then Whack! this hit me. I've had a couple of very busy months travelling qround and seeing thisng, and. I guess the elves were lurking there....I'm so happy you liked it! | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/4/2005 |
| OK. I'm in love with your Thranduil already. But then you probably knew that. This is progressing wonderfully. I'd never before thought about the analogy between the drowning of Beleriand and the predicted effects of global warming. Author Reply: OK. I'm in love with your Thranduil already. But then you probably knew that. :-) I'm not greedy, I can share! What about exchanging? I'm not surprised you never made the connection, I'm yet to find someone who had, but then, this is part of my daily diet, so no wonder! I'm so relieved you didn't find it too boring, i feared it was a bit too Ocish and "scholarly"... | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 6/4/2005 |
| This is exactly what I think the Elves would have been doing if they'd lived into our age! What a great start. You do this very well too, Perelleth. You introduce your characters and set up the situation without dumping a backstory on us. Lovely. Author Reply: Welcome on board! Yes, I always expect to run into one of them out there, doing exactly this, althoguh I haven't yet succeded..:-( I particularly appreciate your comment on the Prologue, for the story is wholly drafted and almost finished, and the the whole prologue scene appeared before my eyes then, and I thought it would help set the tale. I'm so glad you think it worked, thanks, I'm so untrained in this thing...! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/4/2005 |
| Oh, a future story! I have been thinking about elves being in our world at the end of days, and suddenly here is a story. I like the four elves together, joking and teasing, and then the way that Celeborn presents himself in this second chapter. The elves would know and understand what is happening in the world, but they will understand better than anyone the undesirable melancholy that the good doctor finds himself under. I imagine being human and not tied to Arda as the elves are only makes it worse. I look forward to seeing where you take this. Author Reply: Well, thanks! I'm thrilled to see you all on board (and a bit impressed too!) I don't read future stories, and now I'm writing one! But I've often thought of these particular two sindarin lords in present days, mostly when I meet brave people doing their lot to improve things and caring for their environment, and always think that had they remained, elves would be found in these remote places, doing their part. I keep searching! :-) I think the poor doctor will feel better once he's allowed a god night sleep! I hope you're recovering well, Nilmandra! | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/4/2005 |
| Awright! I'm going to like this story. I love stories where modern technology takes on ancient ritual and wisdom. This has a lovely science-fiction-y feel to it. The scientist is appropriately cynical (I love his apartment), and the Elves are so very Elvish, completely in control to outsiders, but still with four distinct personalities of their own. I am so going to like reading this story. I hadn't really known that it was a drought in the 60s and 70s that made for the famine in the 80s. I remember being very little in the 80s and learning about how The Starving African Children Had No Food, and there was a sense that this was how it had always been, and how it would always be, no matter how many pennies we collected for UNICEF at Halloween. Author Reply: So glad to hear from you! I...was.. a bit reluctant, for I do not usually read modern time stories and lo! I'm writing one! but this whole thing struck me some weeks ago, I suppose so many experiences have been brewing and then came out this way... Ancient wisdom,yes, but not outdated, as we sadly forget only too often, exchanging ancient practices for modern technology without knowing the inner meaning of the whole system..Geee. I could rant for hours about this. I, too, love Dr.Feldman's apartment. Some things I lent to him, some others.. I covet...:-)It was fun to imagine this four elves as council members of their own company, glad it worked! Well. the famine was caused by lack of food, which had been a constant through the sixties and seventies, due to drought, and aggravated by a revolution in the early 80's, which disrupted the distribution system for the already scarce food and caused the big catastrophe of the 80's. But the monsoon didn't came for ten years on row, and that's were it all started. I so do hope that you'll enjoy it! | |