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| New beginnings by perelleth | 79 Review(s) |
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| Haleth | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/29/2005 |
| This is wonderful! I love the characterisations and the tensions between the Noldor and the Sindar. It's great to see a fic set In this relatively neglected part of Middle-earth's history. Haleth Author Reply: Oh ! I'm glad that you liked it! This camp must have been a bomb waiting to explode, I just...toyed with it...:-) I don't have your gift for condensed,explosive,unfolding humour,though! Thanks! | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/29/2005 |
| Ereinion is not having a real good day here, is he? Never get into a fight with the house of Oropher, I say. Won't do anyone any good at all. I gotta say, the Noldor seem especially insensitive here, treating Oropher like a petty tyrant instead of simply keeping him and his folk separate from the dwarves at all times. I like Oropher. He does have some legitimate grievances, but you can already see the fanaticism that will lead him to take his people to live in splendid isolation for centuries. And there's good old Elrond, in Doctor Mode. Enough to make any patient want to get well and get out of there soon. Author Reply: I just passed your complains to Finarfin's guards,who happened to be on duty in that part of the forest, and they apologize, FP, for the Valinor relief troops' handbook on "how to deal with different races without causing another war" did not explicitly say what to do when a dwarf lord popped out from the forest among a group of Sindarin elves.. they have reported to the High command, but after long deliberations, Finarfin has refused to have fences built up to separate the different areas and the different races. He still believes that the peoples of ME can learn to live together... poor elf! :-) "Splendid isolation" I loved that sentence, and it fits Oropher so well! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/29/2005 |
| LOL at Gil-galad! Well, that was sure an interesting way for the king to behave. Our young kings have a lot to learn, and I'm sure Cirdan has his hands full while Finafin is just rolling his eyes at all these youngsters playing at being grown ups! But, they all clearly have skill as well. I look forward to the next chapter. Author Reply: Yes, "interesting" would start to describe it, LOL! high kingship as we look at it from the tales of the Third Age must have started somewhere, and a camp of refugees, with differet backgrounds and races is a difficult training ground for everybody... The story is already written, -except for the epilogue- and I hope to be posting regularly, since time for writing is going to be scarce for the next weeks, and I think August is a quiet month for almost everybody.. except me, as it turned out! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/29/2005 |
| Oh, I enjoyed this look at Gil-galad and Celeborn. Gil-galad was so young to have so many responsiblities thrust on him, and I like that you have shown both his youth and its accompanied feelings of inadquecy and also his sharp wit and tongue, and knowledge. Celeborn can be both annoying and alluring, a perfect combination for a 'moriquendi' lord. He may never have seen the light of Valinor, but he is indeed husband enough for Galadriel. And she is as stubborn as her own father. Nice resemblance..and Im sure Finarfin sees it too. Author Reply: I'm glad that you liked this take on the entangled family! I agree that Celebron is husband enough for Galdriel, i'm sure that at times he must have ben even more than enough! We'll see Finarfin's appreciation in chapter 3! :-) As I have trouble dealing with pure and blind resentment among elves, I'm trying to get a look at how these mixed camp with so many leaders would have managed to deal with all the existing grudges before stepping into a new age. And I found it had many embarassing situations for everybody! Thanks! :-) | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/29/2005 |
| When I opened the review window, the chapter title popped up again and I had to laugh. "Having fun" indeed! Poor Gil-galad. And what a way for you to introduce Oropher to us. He's quite believable as someone who wouldn't wait for Gil-galad's orders years from now and so would charge to his death. Nice job with Elrond and Elros too. They're brought alive here. Author Reply: You're truly an early morning person, daw, aren't you?:-) I'm glad that I helped you start the day with a laugh! Anyway, all this is partly your *fault*, since while waiting for a new story from you I had to amuse myself on some other way! (a very discreet way to inquire whether your muses are taking a summer vacation was that, eh?) I was a bit frightened of how this Oropher would come through, but, hey, with all that has been written about him in fandom, it is hard to picture him as one of Gil-galad's friends... anyway, I assure you that everybody suffer their share of embarasing situations in this story,I'm not deliberately charging my hand upon him alone...:-) Glad that the Peredhil seemed alive to you. I found them quite endearing, myself. A difficlt time for them that must have been,too.. Thanks! :-) | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/28/2005 |
| Oh I just discovered this as I was trying to catch up on all the story alerts in my email. I am going to like this! There aren't many stories that deal with the time around the War of Wrath, so that makes it fun all by itself--such a lot of material there to work with. And I agree that there would be a good deal of tension between all the races and between the Noldor and Sindar as they tried to decide how these new lands would be governed. The conversation between Gil-galad and Celeborn on those topics was great! And Celeborn meeting his father-in-law for the first time! I always wanted to see that. I absolutely loved the conversation between Finarfin and Galadriel. It was perfect! This story is going to be wonderful. I am looking forward to seeing what you do with it! Author Reply: Hi elliska! I'm glad that you found this first chapter interesting! The story is almost complete, so I expect to be posting quite regularly, because my time shall be shorter for the next weeks, waht with the moving and so on, but I have been amusing myself having a look inside so many different characters in this particular time and place.... I believe there must have been much misunderstanding and prejudice, but, above all, misconceptions and lack of communication. Everybody here had regrets and pains and grudges, so the thing was how to overcome all that and start anew. IN an enteraining, amusing way, I hope! Celeborn meeting Finarfin always seemed to me one of those things that might unsettle anyone's stomach :-) | |
| Alice | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/26/2005 |
| Very interesting. This is a subject that should be explored. I was glad to see something from this time period. There's nothing like Noldo/Sindarin tension. I do have a one nitpicky thing to say though: when Celeborn uses "kid" and "great" his voice is broken. It jerked me out of the story, which is a shame, because I was really enjoying it. I love Silmarillion fanfiction and really enjoyed this piece. Update soon! Author Reply: oh, sorry about that, and thanks for telling. I hope it didn't jerked you completely out of the story though! ( bows in shame and runs to correct it..) I found that the beginning of the Second age was a natural comedy scenario, with so many suspicions, old grudges, tensions and different cultural approaches, and it was interesting to see how all theese well-intentioned people would learn to work together despite their differences.. | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/26/2005 |
| Oh, fun! I just loved the scene between Finarfin and Galadriel. You could so see the crew-cut guy who can't understand why his little Susie has changed her name to Galaxy, wears a patchwork skirt, and has run off to live in a commune in Haight-Ashbury. And at the same time, you can see that Galadriel is very much Finarfin's daughter. She knows exactly how to manipulate him, just from being so much like him. And, indirectly, it says quite a bit about Celeborn, too, if he and Galadriel ended up being a good match. Of course, I don't blame him for preferring to hang out and pick on Ereinion rather than visit with both his wife and his father-in-law. Author Reply: ..."his little Susie has changed her name to Galaxy..." ROTFL, Galaxy? That was very good! :-) I believe that with Galadriel being last child and only daughter in a family of five, Finarfin was lost from the very beginning. He just couldn't refuse her. He would end up paying the bills, I'm sure... Celeborn, on the other hand, just wanted to be alone, something that must have been quite difficult at that time and place, with so many different people locked in the same stretch of land and trying to reach some agreement about how to go on.. I found the situation quite funny, with so many old and recent grudges, misunderstandings and different views... | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/26/2005 |
| I love Gil-galad. He was so young to carry the heavy responsibility he had. And I fully sympathize with Celeborn's discomfort in the presence of his father-in-law, who probably thinks of him as a barbarian in addition to havin the normal father's horror at the male who sleeps with his little girl. Author Reply: There were so many different people looking askance at each other at that time and place, that it was alost irressitible not to try a look at everybody's heads. I, too, can understand Celeborn's concern only too well. E'll hear more about that! BTW, may yo have many more birthdays the rest of us can enjoy, too! ;-) belated HB! | |