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Elf, Interrupted: Book Two: Glorfindel's Quest by Fiondil	1565 Review(s)
Arasinda	Reviewed Chapter: 149 on 11/15/2010
Dear Fiondil, As I stated earlier, I waited to read Elf, Interrupted: Book Two when you finished it completely. I was not disappointed. All along the way, I tried to conjure a means for Glorfindel to rationally return to Middle Earth, other than being told by the Valar. You arrived at the most perfect of solutions - to complete a oath. Also, I truly enjoy how you keep the magic of Tolkien's mythology, but still allow for science. Aman is a place where people may never die, but it certainly is not a boring place either. Eru will keep the Elves very busy evolving and growing for the time when "they" are needed to care for Middle Earth. The banner will be passed from the Valar to the Eldar in the end. You gave us a tiny peek in Elf Academy. Once you have finished Darkness Bound, I'm sure that I'll enjoy it, too. Thank you for your creativity, sticking to canon, and sharing with the many fans of Tolkien. Sincerely, Arasinda Author Reply: Hello Arasinda, I am glad you enjoyed Elf, Interrupted so much. I like to find 'scientific' explanations for the mythology and incorporate it into my stories, since Tolkien does tell us that Arda is merely our own Earth at an earlier geological age. And yes, I do believe that the Elves were always meant to be the teachers and mentors of the Younger Races and take over the governance of Arda from the Valar eventually. And In Darkness Bound is actually completed; I'm just posting 2 chapters a week. So you might as well start reading it now because by the time the last chapter is posted it will be next November. grin Anyway, thanks for reading Elf, Interrupted and letting me know how much you enjoyed it. I appreciate it very much.

Ayala	Reviewed Chapter: 999999 on 11/8/2010
I have no words to describe how your story is so interesting and good You have a fertile imagination and also you put here a smart story i thank you of sharing with us wonderful your story hope you will write more stories like that just now with a woman elf hero Author Reply: Thank you, Ayala for letting me know how much you enjoyed this story. At the moment I have no plans to write any stories featuring female elf heroines, but you never know what the Muse might come up with. Being a guy myself, I prefer writing about male elf heroes (there are more of them anyway grin).

6336	Reviewed Chapter: 130 on 11/6/2010
Hm, looks like the early pilots were following Earandils example in follwing roads to guide them! Huggs, Lynda Author Reply: Which is what you said in your first review of this chapter, Lynda. grin But, when you stop and think about it, if you don't have a handy little thing like radar, following the main highway to your destination makes sense.

6336	Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 10/23/2010
Reading this again, what else is there to do, I am on vacation! So much of what Ingwion is going through is much clearer, now you know just who it is he wants Namo to release, what he went through, losing the one he did can only be imagined. Both Manwe and Namo are correct, you have to let go of them, before you can remember them, how ever painful it is. In spite of being an Elf and knowing that someday they will be returned, you still have a life to live and the sooner you let them go and live your life and not just keep marking time the sooner they will be rturned to you. Hope this makes sense. Huggs Lynda Author Reply: I imagine many people re-reading Elf, Interrupted now that this story is up will be in agreement with you, Lynda. Until now, Ingwion has been going through the motions of living and it's taken someone like Glorfindel to shake him up out of his lethargy and start living again. It's probably one reason why Namo kicked him out of Mandos when he did. grin

Eärillë	Reviewed Chapter: 72 on 9/8/2010
Gah... Sorry. Got to go do other things after this. :( I wish I could read more... But anyway, this was quite an enjoyable chapter, with those friends reuniting with each other... Are the titbits here told by Arafinwë about Finrod after his time in Lórien included in The Findaráto Diaries, by the way? Somehow I hoped the Tol Eressëans would choose the first out of Ingwion's two options. Dunno. Letting the Valar and the Kings of Eldamar decide for them seems... wrong, somehow. But either way, I would really like to read more about it. :) Hopefully it will all end happily! It's interesting to see many occupations told about in this story - and these three chapters alone. You have given me many ideas. :) And your Sindarin names for them were no less interesting. (By the way, I forgot to ask: To which dialect does "Ciryatan" belong to? Sindarin? "Círdan" is Quenya, then?) This chapter looked like a filler, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. (With enthusiasm, actually, I admit. :sheepish: I am not too fond of suspense of darkish scenes/events/sub-plots.) I would love to continue as soon as I can. :) Hopefully not too long like the pause before this. (Sorry...) See you later, then. - Rey Author Reply: Even filler chapters serve a purpose of moving the plot along. "Ciryatan" is Quenya; "Círdan" is Sindarin. The Quenya form is closer to the Primitive Quenya or Common Eldarin that was spoken by all the Elves before the Great Migration. Eventually you will see what results from this Progress and how the Tol Eressëans resolve their issues, though you have quite a way to go before you get there. grin

Eärillë	Reviewed Chapter: 71 on 9/8/2010
The first, about the names, was somewhat confusing. Well, then again, I am still wondering why Arafinwë was not named Finarfin here, even now. LOL I enjoyed reading about the versions of the same names in one language or the other, though. Very educating. (Thanks. :)) The events afterwards were quite enjoyable, though, and illuminating. A problem seemed to be near its resolution... (But I am not going to hope much for the said resolution. After all, you can still put another twist, and I will have to wait longer. grin) The arrival of the three Councillors was quite surprising, but I am glad that it turned out to be a good thing for both sides. - And the reactions of the three 'living legends' were quite amusing... to say the least. It was another source of enjoyment entirely in this chapter... LOL I do not really get the thing about the heraldic devise, though. Is it life-sized? (If then, how could three trees fit in a hall?) The hall itself was beautiful, though. I love it. You did the description on it quite well; and you chose the structure well, in the first place. :) Was the Captain - Baradir? - the person Olwë had met in the shop he had visited with Beleg? - The owner, perhaps? :uncertain: The thing about raft-building still tickles me till now, by the way, and I laughed when it was brought up again, even though just in passing. (The moment of levity served to dissolve the tension, I noticed... :) At least it served to poofed away my own tension. Haha. :embarrassed:) Another thing I enjoyed in this chapter was when you brought up those people visited by the Maiar when they had just arrived in the Lonely Isle, that I had read from your collection of one-shots. They made this story truly alive, well-rounded. :) You have done a very good job of it. ;) I am curious about this, though... "Edrahil, however, was sitting between the two Lóriennildi, much to his disgust, but Finrod would not allow him to attend the meeting otherwise." - Who are the Lóriennildi? Laurendil and Manwen? And why the disgust? And why, for that matter, did Finrod not allow him to sit elsewhere? (LOL Rather pointless questions, but I am really curious about it. :sheepish:) Oh, by the way, the reactions of the townspeople to the gestures of obeisance led by Finrod in the meeting were quite amusing... quite true to reality. It lent a realistic touch to the problem and the meeting itself as well. :) Another event - from the long list - you built up quite well - quite thoroughly. You gave hints to the people's thoughts and moods by those... And now on to the next chapter, before the time is running out... wince - Rey Author Reply: Sorry about the confusion with the names, but with different cultures colliding with their different languages it's hard to keep them all straight. You will notice that sometimes people will address Finrod as "Finrod" and other times as "Findaráto". This is a subtle way of showing that the person using "Finrod" is speaking Sindarin and the person using "Findaráto" is speaking Quenya. But Arafinwë is always Arafinwë and never Finarfin since that is not a name he adopted; it was given to him by the Sindarin-speaking Elves. As for Edrahil, he is sitting between Laurendil and Manwen because Finrod wants to make sure that if he suffers another episode, the healers will be right there. Narually he is disgusted by the whole thing. The heraldic device is large but not life-size. The trees are merely represented in carving.

Eärillë	Reviewed Chapter: 70 on 9/8/2010
I am back... for a moment. :) This was a good cooling-down chapter after what had happened in the previous two chapters. (To think that Eärnur said he had missed the 'fun'!) The atmosphere was lighter, and the funny ending was both unexpected and lovely. (Perhaps then the residents of the town wondered why those Amaneldi were laughing... After all, some (or many?) of them thought those people were almost-fiends.) Sador's forgiveness was touching. And he did it so easily... He had a deep hurt when it came to the Kinslaying, as far as I read, but here he did it so... easily. I wonder why. Olwë did it too, and his realm had been ransacked, his people killed, by ellyn like those two. (Well, he had not known that they had not participated in the Kinslaying, had he? He said so himself.) Was it because they were in a mission to unite both sides of the Undying Lands? Because, if one would say "Time heals all wounds," there is examples such as Ingwion to consider... I am glad Edrahil returned to himself - his usual self - now. :) Well, I do not know much about him in the first place, since you have not (or do not?) delved deeper into his character. But it was really a happy scene to me when he and Finrod reconciled - physically - face to face. The surprising part of the ending of the chapter came also from this: the notion that Edrahil was not particularly cheery throughout the chapter. - He tipped a goblet of wine on Gilvagor's head... Haha. You are wicked, Fiondil. grin And once again, the puzzle fitted itself together. The two newcomers to the Lonely Isle got a potential job... LOL I love how those pieces slowly fitted themselves together. You have a very cohesive plot here, with varying sub-plots, and I enjoy it very much. And there was the rumor to hold my breath in, too. :) Heh... I hope I hope I will find out in the next few chapters, or I will have to wait till I have another time to read. My question, though: Why had Gilvagor not known about it? He seemed to be quite versed in the situation... Was it because the person/people spreading it avoided him, seeing that he had a good relationship with the Amaneldi? - Rey Author Reply: Hi Rey. Yes, this is a bit of a lighthearted chapter after all the angst from before. Sador's ability to forgive is a result of having gone through Mandos and been purged of any hatred he might have towards the kinslayers. Olwë's forgiveness is born of deep pain and contemplation and a realization that forgiveness is the only way to finally defeat the evil perpetrated by the kinslayers. Anyway, a lot is going on in this chapter for all that it's a quiet one. I suspect that Gilvagor is uaware of the rumors simply because they are so new and he hasn't been on the island all the time, going back and forth as he as been between Tol Eressëa and Tirion.

Mîdhaer	Reviewed Chapter: 144 on 9/6/2010
I noticed a little typo...until the time when it is meet for me to step down and let another take my place. Valar valuvar." Shouldn't it be mete instead of meet? Author Reply: Actually, 'meet' is correct. 'Mete' means 'to measure out, to allot' as in 'to mete out punishment', while 'meet' means 'appropriate'. Author Reply: And this 'meet' is the adjective, not the verb meaning 'coming together for a particular purpose'. I hope that clears this up for you. It's confusing, I know, because both words sound alike, and 'meet' is both a verb and an adjective. (Sorry for the break in the message but the site was acting weird for a bit.)

Imhiriel	Reviewed Chapter: 149 on 9/5/2010
He smiled to himself, recalling how there had always been at least a dozen Maiar and two Valar in attendance whenever those particular lessons were being taught and always in some remote corner of the continent where there was little chance of others being harmed if things went wrong. Hee-hee. I now picture the Valar and Maiar standing around the two of them in protective suits complete with gas masks, fire extinguisher in the one hand, a bucket of water in the other. Your marking some ambivalence on Glorfindels's part regarding Elrond has me intrigued considerably. Will you be exploring Glorfindel's further adventures as he arrives in Lindon and the beginning of his friendship with Elrond (who is one of my very favourite characters)? Have you perhaps already written snippets of that somewhere in your short stories? Oh, my, there is Glorfindel on his knees, solemny giving the Lord of Mandos his sword, and what is the grave oath he gets in answer? An oath that made me laugh out loud and long in the juxtaposition of the moods... Elrond is so cute in his shyness, still so awfully young. Glorfindel will do him a world of good to bring him out in the open. And that last paragraph just broke my heart. Ended on a perfect note. Thank you, Fiondil, for once again writen such a thoroughly engrossing tale and sharing it with us! And now I'm really looking forward to find (some g) long-awaited answers in your story about the Darkening. Author Reply: I don't have specific plans to write Glorfindel/Elrond stories per se, but I will no doubt write some short stories as the Muse inspires me to do so. I have, of course, written at least one 'Glorfindel-in-Lindon' story that you can find in my Tapestry series. It is, in fact, the last story in the series, though it revolves around Glorfindel and Erestor. I do have a story coming up in my Loom series that deals with life in Imladris and Glorfindel, naturally, is the main character. I will be posting that story soon. And now that you have completed reading "Elf, Interrupted", you can devote your attention to "In Darkness Bound", the first chapters of which were posted this past week. grin I hope you enjoy it as much as you have enjoyed this story. Thanks for all your reviews, Imhíriel. I have enjoyed reading each and every one of them.

Imhiriel	Reviewed Chapter: 147 on 9/5/2010
Just a quick note; I had been curious about what scent Olórin would be "sporting" g for some time now, and asëa aranion is of course absolutely perfect! (Although I can't remember now what rosemary stands for - something with healing properties, was it?) Author Reply: Rosemary oil is useful for bruises and wounds. It has also been used as to repel evil spirits and drive away bad dreams, so perhaps for someone like Olórin, especially in his guise as Gandalf, such properties would come in handy. grin

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