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| The rider in the gloaming by Nesta | 17 Review(s) |
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| Nessa | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/28/2007 |
| Oh, Nesta, I love this story so very much. I don't know what else to say, except that I need tissues *sniffle* Love, Nessa Author Reply: I often feel a bit sniffly myself when Faramir is around. In fact, what between sniffling and swooning, I'd have been rather in the way around Emyn Arnen... | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/28/2007 |
| I loved this beautiful atmospheric story.You capture Faramir perfectly and the beauty of the country he fights to save. Author Reply: Somehow, although I know Ithilien is really as far south as Italy, it keeps on turning into Wales in my imagination, no doubt because I like to put the character I love best in the place I love best. The Shire, on the other hand, is always western England, and the Wilderland is Northumberland. How many other authors can conjure up landscapes as vividly as Tolkien does? | |
| Lady Bluejay | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/28/2007 |
| Lovely. I do so love to see Faramir portrayed as Tolkien intended -- strong and true. Well done. LBJ Author Reply: Many thanks! I certainly wouldn't portray him as in the movie - what a wimp! | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/28/2007 |
| Fabulous. I don't know how you write children so well, so much more like they would like to see themselves than like grownups in charge tend to see them. Visually, it reminded me more of Ursula K. LeGuin. The pace, the color, the gloomy forest and the brilliant sunset valley are so convincing. The rider... I don't even know there to begin. He is fantastic. And, not least, kind but not at all syrupy. You found a point of view that allows us readers to notice every small smile with good reason and to admire every bit of him without getting too close. The last line sounds a little bit like stating the obvious :) Would you consider writing Houses of Healing from Bergil's POV? Did he ever meet Faramir again before the siege? Author Reply: Thanks, Phyloxena! I don't know if Bergil met Faramir again before the seige, but he'd certainly have seen him about Minas Tirith. The nearest I ever got to HoH with Bergil involved was in 'Black Hour', which I think you've read. Something else may come up some time, I suppose. I'm glad the child angle was convincing. Getting lost in the forest and coming to the valley side are both from my own experience, though suitably adapted of course! I once got quite alarmingly lost in a tiny patch of pinewood just above the Grand Canyon, and I'd really hate to be alone in a really big forest. | |
| Vanadesse | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/27/2007 |
| Hi! This is beautiful. We all have someday life-altering experiences. Author Reply: Thank you, Vanadesse! We do indeed all have life-altering experiences, and they don't have to be particularly important from anybody else's point of view. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/27/2007 |
| Oh, yum! And Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! In a totally respectful way, of course. And a blissful, contented sigh, as well. Raksha is a happy reader today! This is why I love Faramir - you've captured him almost perfectly here; the horsemanship, the singing in Sindarin, his troubling to give gentle lessons about the true nature of courage to a small boy...Faramir's unforced, natural charisma just spills out of the page. I can just see him riding that big young galoot of a warhorse through the woods. I think Bergil will be a very happy kid growing up in Ithilien in Faramir's service... | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/27/2007 |
| Ah! Such a wonderful first meeting for them! And Faramir is the lord I, too, would follow, for indeed he has ever held the guarding of men and land more important than his own life! Yes, Bergil, a Captain well worth the giving of ones heart to! Wonderful, Nesta. | |