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| Bridges by Bodkin | 19 Review(s) |
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| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Excellent chapter - as always. You do not disappoint, fair writer. I have a habit of reading too fast when things get tense... I had to read the las part over twice... once I found there was hope! Thanks for the tense moments and for the fun of reading this! Author Reply: Thank you! I'm glad you found it tense - it's difficult to tell sometimes when the writing is coming slowly. They are not out of the woods (or water-filled cavern) yet, but help has arrived and it shouldn't be too long. Probably. Barring accidents ... (Just to increase the tension of waiting!!) | |
| The Karenator | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| I am so far behind on reading...writing...everything, but I have spent all evening reading this. It's wonderful. I love how you've characterized Taryatur. You've made him real and layered and... who knew? the elf has a sense of humor. This is a terribly...or wonderfully, exciting tale. I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed it. And I needed it. Thanks. Author Reply: I have become fond of Taryatur - he has spent a long long time holding down the lid on some hideous experiences and letting them fester - and, if he can share them with his s-in-l, it will be good for both of them. They do actually have quite a bit in common - but Legolas deals better with what he has seen and done because, in his home, it was a shared battle - while Taryatur came from and returned to a world with little comprehension of what he had seen. And he does have a sense of humour! He just hasn't been willing to share it with the Wood elf. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Thanks, Karen. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Excellent--the healing between them comes rapidly. It's about time! And they've been located, which is a good thing. Too bad it took this to get the communication going at last, though--but that's how too many of us are, after all. Author Reply: I doubt they will be bosom buddies - not yet, anyway - but they have opened some channels of understanding between them. They have a better grasp of their shared experiences and their desire to care for those they love. They needed to be jolted off the rails they were following, I think. Each of them had developed stereotypes for the other - and they weren't keen to let them go. The problem now will be keeping the channels open for long enough for them to become set! | |
| Gwynhyffar | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Awwww, Legolas and Taryatur are finally coming to an uneasy peace. I enjoyed watching these two find the beginnings of understanding. There is nothing like adversity to bring people together. Author Reply: They will have a bond - and a cautious understanding. But I reckon it will take them time to relax in each other's company. I think it has been good for Taryatur to be the protector, too - and for Legolas to see taking up that role. Won't Elerrina be surprised! | |
| Lianna | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Legolas is so funny with his "more unflappable than thou" approach to danger and injury. Although I think that Taryatur can match him at least most of the time. Perhaps Taryatur's real problem is that he doesn't seem to have friends who share his background and understand him instinctively in the way that Elladan and Elrohir understand Legolas. Poor Laerwen. Her experience with Legolas seems like that of a mother who gives up a child for adoption and doesn't meet him until he is an adult. Great chapter. But please, get our guys out of there! Author Reply: A warrior competition in cool! I reckon Legolas knows life-threatening when he sees it - and he knows (now) that any damage is fixable. I think Taryatur rejected and tried to bury his experience when he came back to the Blessed Realm - and there were not enough people round him who could help release the pressure. Legolas has spent far longer around fellow warriors - including E2 - who understand and have come to terms with what they did. Good analogy - Laerwen has missed a lot of important years with her son, and she is his naneth rather than his nana. He treasures his few memories of her - but she missed all that adolescent angst and wasn't there for him. Through no fault of her own, but she was still missing. Won't be long now! But it's not going to be that easy to get the tree out of the way safely - and you wouldn't want it falling on their heads now, would you? | |
| vampfan30 | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| *** releasing a held breath *** Finally, our guys are getting rescued! It looks as if things between them are going to work out after all. Sometimes it takes a rough circumstance to get people talking to each other again......Been there, done that. Author Reply: They'll still be cautious with each other, I think. But connections have been made and they're mature enough to nurture them, I hope. It'll still take a while to move that tree - but they know now it's only a matter of hours! | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Oh yay. I knew this was here today and I had to work. Can you believe that? I think if I were trapped underground with the water rising, I'd want Thranduil taking charge of getting me out. But I did like the way the elves think of the tree and the forest animals too, talking about them as if they were all part of the same life rather than put there to serve elves. Poor Laerwen. She lost a lot when she died and she's not going to get it all back, although she'll certainly get something precious. Author Reply: Working is cruel. There are much better things to do with your time than that. Oh yes, Thranduil won't let the debate last too long - but I don't think it will be the work of minutes to get them out. The branch is plugging the hole and it's pretty heavy. I was thinking that the pace of life for the creatures and the trees wouldn't make them necessarily very good observers - they would happily report what they saw, but they wouldn't understand it. Laerwen has a small child now - and must realise even more that she missed out on a whole lot when she was killed. You can be parted from your adult children and they are still your kids, but losing those childhood years must change the relationship considerably. And she must notice it in the ... sub-text of Legolas's connection to his father. But what she has is still precious. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Sounds like nearly everyone is learning a lesson, not merely Taryatur and Legolas. But I do like this beginning of rapprochement between them--no, not yet a friendship--but something more, I think, than merely a truce. I loved the way Thranduil knew Legolas was hurt when his reply to the question was that he needed a bath, LOL! He *does* know this son of his very well indeed. And I also liked the moments between Laerwen and Linevinde--I can see how she regrets not being around for her son. That she died rather than take ship does not rid her of the feeling of having deserted him. I look forward to seeing the two of them get out of there--there are family members who may look back on this terrifying episode as entirely worth it! Author Reply: It would be too easy - and unlikely, I think - for them to fall into each other's arms. But respect is built on understanding, and I think they know more about each other - they have learned that they have some things in common and share a fierce desire to protect those they love, for example. And Legolas is, at the moment anyway, included among those Taryatur will risk himself to protect. Thranduil would probably assume that Legolas was hiding his hurts anyway - he has known him a long time! And the longer Laerwen knows Legolas, the more she must realise how much she has missed of his life. (I suspect Celebrian has similar moments of regret - although she didn't miss her children's childhood...) Oh yes - in retrospect, this adventure may well seem worthwhile! | |
| Jay of Lasgalen | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| I'm so relieved that they are nearly out of there! This enforced time together has given Legolas and Taryatur time to talk, and think, and understand one another - and I agree that their problem (one of them, at least) is that they are too alike. Taryatur's revelation about his brother's disappearance in Angmar is chilling. Yes, it's better to think he died there than to imagine the alternative. *Shudder* Welcome back. Have you been away, or just internetless? Author Reply: My computer has gone to be fixed - and it's taken me some time to work out how to attach my daughter's to the net. Although I'm still e-mail-less! It's a horrible fate ... I've long thought that one of the barriers between these two is that they don't want to admit that they have shared a lot of experience. What Taryatur hasn't wanted to admit is that the experience can have good effects as well as bad. But then he was born in the time of the Trees and has refused to deal with what he suffered in the WofW. He might find that leaking a little of that to Legolas eases his own scars. As well as giving his s-in-l more respect for him. But now they've just got to get that tree out the way and they're home and free! | |