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| Children of Iluvatar by Antane | 72 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 7/20/2007 |
| Oh wow! That is the most intense chapter so far. I knew what was going to happen and I was still tense, sitting on the edge of my chair. Poor Elrond, how many times we have all been in more or less that same position, trying to trust our Father but not able to find it within us and relying only on Him to give us the strength to trust in Him...or not relying, depending on the situation. There are so many wonderful lines in here that if I quoted my favorite parts you'd have practically the whole thing repeated here, so I'll just say I loved it and really felt for Elrond's pain. God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Hantanyel, ammelda! So glad you enjoyed and that I was able to have you in a bit of suspense anyways - that is cool. :) *big hobbity hug* Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 7/15/2007 |
| loving it back from the brink or trying to. What a lovely image Antane. But all the rest was wonderful too. Author Reply: Hannon le, my dear! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 7/13/2007 |
| Cut and burned they've been, and weakened they've become; but they are now safe in the arms of those who love them, both terrestrially and celestially. Author Reply: As their bodies weakened, their souls grew stronger. And they've earned some rest - where else but in the arms and Arms of those who love them best? I love the idea of God holding them in that time - how else could Frodo have woken so happy? Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Elemmírë | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 7/11/2007 |
| What a lovely blend of book and movie verse, Antane, and another wonderfully written and thought-out chapter! I again really like how you have Elrond thinking of Celebrian here and comparing Frodo's suffering fea with hers. It's interesting also because although Celebrian resides in the West now, Elrond has only his faith alone that she is healed of her wounds since he's never seen her since. It will end this way, my child, but you do not know when that end will be. Has not anything you have seen and heard yet brought you to believe that Panthael’s heart is what I have fashioned to be? Hold onto his hope, if you have no more of your own. What hope is there left? I tried so hard to hold on the entire time, to trust in Your words and vision. But there is nothing left for me to hope or trust in. While there’s life, there’s hope. Trust still for My watch has not ceased over them anymore than has Panthael’s ceased over his Iorhael. The flames are so close. I am closer. I LOVE that "conversation" between them. Is that perhaps a bit of foreshadow that Frodo and Sam will end their mortal lives together in each others' arms ... but in the Blessed Realm? And those last two lines left me speechless. Yes, Elrond, partake in Sam's hope for it is unquenchable. :D I was reminded of something that I recently heard at Connecticut's Respiratory Therapy which I attended. The key note speaker was talking about healing and Spirituality, that it comes in many forms, etc. But she said something which was the only note I wrote down that day in the margin of my program. She said, "Hope to live fully, come what may." I also thought of Tolkien's own, While there's life, there is hope, during this speech. It's always been an important quote to me as a healthcare professional, for when I first started my job it was with the intention of helping and healing people. But many times, I found myself unable to do just that because for so many who are chronically ill there is no full healing. Then one day I realized that help and healing comes in many different forms, from just being able to put a smile on a patient's face, making them forget their troubles for a moment, to just fetching someone a glass of water. Helping people and healing do not just from a cure that many times does not exist. Hope itself also comes in many such different forms. Sorry to ramble, but I feel that once Elrond regains his faith, that it will be stronger than ever. May he and Sam (through Iluvatar) be able to show Frodo what it is to live fully again ... and to have hope once more as well. I can't wait for the next chapter. You are going to write of Elrond in Minas Tirith with Frodo, right? Hint, hint. LOL! ~Elemmírë~ Author Reply: Another big hantanyel and hobbity hug, my dear! I do so love your very kind reviews! Ramble away. :) I love that line of Iluvatar's also - it's so hard to keep that in mind when we are going through our trials. But He is there. The Footprints poem comes to mind too. I haven't gotten up to Elrond in Minas Tirith yet but yes, it'll be there. And yes, that is foreshadowing about Frodo and Sam's deaths, or at least the way I hoped it happened. God knows so that's what is important and it's the only way it should have happened for such knitted souls. I think Elrond would know that his beloved wife is healed just as Sam would know somehow when Frodo was - those that shared the same heart and soul cannot not know. Live fully indeed. I love that quote. Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) | |
| Elemmírë | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 7/11/2007 |
| Wow! That was just totally AWESOME, Antane!!!!!!!!!!!! The emotion on Elrond's part was so very tangible from the beginning of this chapter to the end. I really liked how you handled his own failing faith in Iluvatar and Frodo putting on the Ring was truly the perfect time for it, I knew you'd find the right place for that and you wrote it so perfectly. Elrond's own flashbacks at the Sammath Naur with Isildur were also just as heartfelt. It really must have been agonozing guilt on Elrond's part to stand by helplessly again as another claimed the Ring. What a shattering blow to his faith, but Iluvatar's response was just ... I don't have words for it, but I know Elrond will hopefully come to his own understanding in time. It is as it was always was to be, my child. Your brother has shown great strength and in his weakness, I will show my strength. He has not failed. I gave both your brothers the grace to be who I created them to be - Bronwe athan Harthad and Harthad Uluithiad - to help right the wrong of Isildur. They have done that. Your other brother and I will fulfill the rest. Better that he lose a piece of mortal flesh than his immortal fea That was such a cool line too and I too wonder if it was Iluvatar, Celebrian, or Elrond's mind himself that said it. I also liked how Galadriel's phial would not shine forth in the Sammath Naur, for all the Darkness and Evil there. It is fitting that the Light of Iluvatar be the only Light strong enough to shine forth in that place. ~Elemmírë~ p.s. I recommend the movie, 'Evan Almighty' to you if you haven't seen it yet. :) Author Reply: Hantanyel, dear Elemmire! *tight hobbity hug* :) I am so glad you enjoyed - your reviews mean so much to me. You have helped me out so much in this story so you have to take part of the credit too, you know. I am not much of a movie-goer - if I go once a year that's saying something (outside of ROTK and the various Star Wars films which was my former addiction before Mr. Baggins swept me slowly but surely away) but maybe I can rent it. The last movie I saw was Pursuit of Happyness which I enjoyed. Chris Gardener - I think that was his name - must have been Frodo in a past life. :) Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 7/10/2007 |
| Mixing movie and book--nice job of it. And the two are brothers indeed where it matters most. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 7/10/2007 |
| BTW Just been browsing, (and I am at work no less,) and remembered a story by Misty called Shoot the Moon. You wanted stars for ME? Try that story and contact her for more as she is an Astronomer! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 7/10/2007 |
| It just seems so right that Elrond, and perhaps Gandalf and Galadriel, should be able to follow Frodo's quest in this way. I am so glad that, through her bond with him, Celebrian is able to comfort Elrond too. Author Reply: Hannon le, dear harrowcat! Glad you are enjoying! And I'll have to check out that story by Misty. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 7/9/2007 |
| A moment of sheer horror. And better the loss of a finger than the loss of the soul. Author Reply: Indeed. I got that idea actually from the animated version which I like no matter how much other people don't. It certainly does have silly moments, but also profound ones and Frodo's words about this is one of them. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Adrianne | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 6/25/2007 |
| This is such a beautiful, magnificent rendering of a story we know so well. I love the song you included in this chapter. But the dialogue between Eru and Elrond is so exquisite and so profound and it rings so true. "How could he have done that? Elrond asked in admiration. Oh, Ada, they are such marvels. I have never seen the like. He did not carry his brother alone." Just wonderful. Thank you, Antane for this story of faith. Adrianne Author Reply: And hannon le for your review! I am honored by your praise and enjoyment in my having the gall to write in God's voice, but perhaps it is not me writing at all. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |