News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| Bridges by Bodkin | 71 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| 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! | |
| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/20/2006 |
| Oh, I loved this! Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to open their doors to each other. But, what stood out for me... Taryatur looking up and talking to someone. ;) Just who was that, eh? It is almost expected for modern day characters to do that, but how does that convention work with an elf of the Blessed Realm? Was he addressing Nature like that Wood-elf might? :D However, Legolas's advice about not looking into the flame really struck me as an incredible metaphor of Taryatur's emotional blindness. He had stared into the bright Light for all his existence and thought beholding it better than staring into the darkness. Ignorant or forgetting that gazing into such radiance renders you unable to see in the shadows. And it was Legolas who was telling him this and acknowledging that fire emphasises the feeling of gloom That was *very* interesting to contemplate. And confirmed there just before the end, I think. Their other philosophical discussion about dwarves and orcs was wonderfully personable. I enjoyed their gallows humor very much too. ;) Both wise and experienced in the desperate, yet enough to know not to give up. They live so they, not only hope, but act. Thranduil and Laerwen were great too. And I have gotten the impression that something more involved is going on with Elerrina. But, the next big thrill is just how they will get saved, not from each other, but by people not looking for them yet! Author Reply: Taryatur is making a plea - of sorts - to the Valar! Some of whom he knows personally - and none of whom reside for preference in a water-worn stone cavern beneath the forest floor. Goodness. I'm glad you're there to let me know how philosophical I was being! (Of course, I was doing all that deliberately ... she asserted, looking round shiftily...) Good thinking, though! And the brightness to which Taryatur was accustomed would make the darkness seem so much worse. And, I think, he grew up in a nearly perfect Blessed Realm - the troubles would have shattered his confidence in a way that bad times didn't affect Legolas - who always knew that good is something you have to strive towards, rejecting evil along the way. I do think this adventure will help them both see the elf below the stereotype ... which will be much to Elerrina and Linevende's relief. The storm was huge - and the forest is disrupted. The adventures of two elves don't amount to a hill of beans in the general disturbance. Except to Elerrina - who is not accustomed to the feeling and doesn't know quite what to make of it. Fingers crossed they make it out in the next chapter - which is getting so long it might have to stop soon before they return to daylight! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 8/20/2006 |
| Oh this will be great! Just what Taryatur and Legolas need. And I love seeing these two interact. It is almost as good as Thranduil and Galadriel. Glad to see you start another one with these characters. Author Reply: Thank you, elliska. This is only going to be a short tale - and I doubt all problems will be cured. That would be too easy! But hopefully they will develop a slightly better understanding and abandon the automatic bristling reflex they have at the thought of each other. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/20/2006 |
| Hehehe! I know it is mean, but the idea of those two trapped together and forced to rely on each other makes me giggle. Legolas's reaction that it should be illegal was hialrious. But I loved the things they talked about and their reactions to one another. As someone said, they have so much in common that they really could be great friends if they gave it a chance. Of course they never will, but a truce would be good. And Thranduil! ‘I am not prepared to tolerate it – and I am very good at getting my way.’ This just cracked me up! I love these characters! | |
| thechevin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/18/2006 |
| Oh my out of the frying pan and into the fire here for Taryataur and Legolas but at least they are in a position where they have to rely on each other and where there are no interruptions or others doing their best to step into the uncomfortable breech made by thoughtless words and misunderstandings They are in this together and have to work with each other I smiled at Taryantaur's comments when he was searching for the intolerant wood elf, and also at his attempts at comfort, I'm not sure which of them is more uncomfortable with it. As for Laerwen well as Thranduil says he is glad she is on his side, but I am surprised neither of them realise their son is injured and in need of rescue or do they? Author Reply: I think being forced to listen to each other - and to pick up unspoken messages, too - is long past due for these two. It will do Taryatur good to be the one who is offering help and support, as well - just as being hurt will make it easier for Legolas to let what he is hearing pass through the barriers he has established to ward him against the endless disapproval. Taryatur is an honest elf - if prickly - and, when pushed, he has to admit that his son-in-law is part of his extended family. I think the forest is very disturbed by the storm and its voice is very loud - and probably drowning out other messages. Laerwen wouldn't deliberately leave her son and Taryatur in a difficult position - but she might feel that a bit of time together will do them no harm. | |