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| To See A World by Nightwing | 29 Review(s) |
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| Rose Sared | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 5/3/2005 |
| Good luck with the building and your husband's op. I will look forward to your energy when life allows you writing time again. Do love this tale it has all the iingredients, tension, angst and occasional humor. I'll be watching this space and thanks for the pleasure thus far. Rose Author Reply: Hi, Rose! I'm happy to hear from you. Have a great summer! No wait... is it summer or winter in your part of the world? | |
| ziggy | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 5/2/2005 |
| ohmigod! Any disappointment??!! What are you trying to do? Kill me with suspense!!! This has just been a fantastic chapter- such menace! You have very carefully built in a sense that there is someone EVEN nastier than Ramhar .. and this character just OOOZES nastiness, menace and power. The bit about the edge of his robe... and the fact that even the soldiers are scared, breathless and pity our poor Legolas.Also, wonderful is the way you have made your reader share Legolas' blindness- a cunning plan to make him blindfolded so his real blindness is hidden for the time being. And using those other senses- when you describe him being circles- I can really feel that sense of helplessness and holding one's breath - brilliant. Ramhar is threatening- a sort of heavy fisted threat- you can imagine him taking real delight in someone else's pain - but you have given him depths now with those hints at a past ... 'she' is presumably Legolas' mother, or perhaps sister ... I need to go back now and see if you have given any hints earlier in the story.I was trying to work out how old Ramhar might be if he knew Legolas' mother ...it gives me something to do in those long empty summer months! (Are you feeling guilty yet?) Even the details about leather straps holding him instead of ropes is perfect- I htink tha tis one reason I enjoy this story so much - Ican totally believe it- every detail is beautifully written and considered - and so truly, I understadn why you need to take the time to think about this- you cannot write this sort of story by just dashing off a few thousand words every week / fortnight. I am grateful to you for maintaining such a wonderfully high standard of writing- there are fewer and fewer good writers posting so please take whatever time you need but don't abandon us! Thanks for what you have done so far. I will look forward to your next chapter, and treat myself by re reading the chapters so far! Author Reply: I am always trying to think of ways to keep others from learning that Legolas is blind. I don't want them to know yet, so he's got a cloth tied over his eyes at the moment. Legolas' mother only died 4 years ago in this story, so Ramhar's age now and then is not significantly different. He does have a past, and a reason for his hatred. That's one of the reasons I'm taking a pause for a time. I need to work out the details about him and the really nasty guy, as I want all parts of the story to be believable and come together in a plausible way. I won't abandon you! This week I am reading a book written by a blind man, to get some perspective. So even if I'm not actually writing at the moment, I am still working on the story. | |
| OakWolf | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/30/2005 |
| Ay, Nightwing these endings are killing me- but thank you for your time and imense creativity good luck this summer, everything's for the best. Author Reply: I agree, it is a rather bad place to leave our elf. But we will get right back to him the instant I update. I hope you have a good summer as well. | |
| Magna | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/30/2005 |
| Hello, Nightwing. I completely understand your situation. I myself have been busy and have had no time to write, which is something I love. And I seem to be losing interest! (NOOOOO!) But I can understand.. Now to the story.. WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THIS?! I hope that you end Aragorn's and Legolas's torments soon. This is too much to take!! UGH! I hope their terrible situation is resolved soon!! Once again, your talent as a writer has left me lost for words. You are one of the best. Great job. Author Reply: Hello! I am happy to see you again, new name or not. Noooo! Losing interest in writing? I would suggest taking a break and seeing if your muse returns, or perhaps writing something different and new. See if that revives the spark. Where am I taking this story? That is precisely one of the reasons I am taking a break from posting this summer. The future of this story needs a lot of thinking about, and I didn't feel I could really get things properly mapped out and still be writing and posting at the same time. So you not see some chapters for a while, but I will indeed still be working on TSAW. As for the current dire predicament our elf is in, I will promise you that he will, in the end, be fine. Have a great summer! | |
| Bev | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
| Well...*sniff*...I must start with saying that I love this chapter as I do all of them. Written only from Legolas' perspective, it is rich in description; from the sound of their boots on the floor to the sound of the tourches flickering. Who on earth could this vile, evil being be? And who is this woman that Legolas apparently resembles? *sigh....slowly wipes tears from eyes*...I am heartsick at the prospect of having to wait soooo long for this story to continue. BUT...I certainly understand what you have to do. Real life does go on. I hope everything goes well with you and your family. Please know that I will be here to continue on with this story when you return. Be well. Bev Author Reply: I try like crazy to get enough description in when I'm in the elf's POV. It's hard work to do so without his eyes. I am happy that everyone has told me they are willing to wait for the story to return. I sat in the library last night for three hours working through some of my plot ideas. So much for taking a break! I'm doing what I can before my husband's surgery. Afterward, I think I'll be playing the role of nurse for a while. Oh, and the elf resembles his mother. | |
| sofia | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
| I so understand how you feel like taking a break. I want to take a break on one of my stories that I'm writing but my mind keeps swimming with ideas and it drives me crazy. Any way, in the fall I'll be expecting another chapter. On to the story- I wonder if Ramhar is talking about Legolas' mother... and I wonder what happened to him concerning the elves. You got me hooked! -sofia Author Reply: I know EXACTLY what you mean. I need to turn my mind off for a while, or I will go crazy. I dream this story 24/7, and it is fatiguing. Yes, Ramhar was speaking of Legolas' mother. I was concerned that his statement might be too vague, so I'm very pleased that you recognized what he meant. Legolas understood what he meant too. Poor elf, he's in a bit of a state right now. | |
| treymaine | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
| I have enjoyed reading your story. I understand that writing is demanding as is real life. I hope that your husband's surgery goes well. I hope the house plans go smoothly. I look forward to fall when you will be able to continue. Best wishes. Author Reply: Yes! Yes it is! Amazing how so many people do not realize that. It is a huge investment of time and concentration and thought and research. It is as much labor of tears as a labor of love. Oh, gawd. Did I really just write that last sentence? Sheesh, just a little over the top. I'm getting giddy. Now I know it is past my bedtime. See you in the fall. | |
| Lady Greenleaf | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
| of course i understand about about wanting to take some time out. Hope you like your new how, and good luck with the surgery on your husbands shoulder. ^ ^ ' v Author Reply: Thank you so much. I hope I like the new house too. I'm sure I will. Anything would be better than the hideous excuse for a house I have lived in these eleven years. I will be tossing roses and leaping about with glee as they bulldoze the thing into the ground. And I will have my own writing nook. No more trying to "get into the story" with Sponge Bob Square Pants playing in the same room. It really does not set the proper mood at all. | |
| Alison H | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
"Beautiful are the elves.You look just like her". Are those not the most chilling words in this entire magnificent story? I swear, I don't think I breathed at all as I read this chapter.Poor Legolas! I felt his fear, his claustrophobia and his sorrow on the road to his confinement. The 'older' man who entered the cell where Legolas was held--that was Malcovan wasn't it? Legolas felt pure evil radiating from him and I felt it too.Absolutely chilling. This story is still the best, most involving LOTR fan fic I have ever read and I have all 36 chapters printed out so that I can wallow in the utterly believable friendship between Aragorn & Legolas. "If love is indeed in the brightness of things", Legolas said to Aragorn,"then you are the light in the darkness"---I was reading this story again last week and that remark is just my all-time favourite line cocerning friendship.I could blub now thinking of the circumstances where it was said! I will wait very patiently for an update--whenever you feel it is time to continue I will be ready to gush over your beautiful story.Take your time and I hope that everything goes well, particularly with your husband's surgery. Best wishes and hugs to you.Enjoy as much of the summer as you can.A friend of mine in New York is having a house built in Florida and she's moving in the summer, along with her hubby and 7yr old daughter.I know how stressful it all is for them. Bye for now. Ali. Author Reply: I was rather pleased with that last comment Ramhar made to the elf. It just "flashed" into my head, and I grabbed it gratefully before it could skitter off and vanish. Yes, that old guy was Malcovan. He is terrible. I hate writing him already. Wow, thanks so much for the compliments! I love the friendship between the elf and the ranger, and I'm pleased that I am able to describe their relationship convincingly. I'm feeling stressed, and I'm only moving to another part of my own back yard! I cannot imagine moving to another state. That takes courage. | |
| AM | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 4/28/2005 |
| Thanks for a marvelous story. Will be waiting on tenderhooks 'til the fall. Author Reply: Thank you! Have a good summer, and don't fret about the elf. I'll take good care of him until fall. | |