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| Not So Happy Returns by Soledad | 75 Review(s) |
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| UTfrog | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 12/17/2014 |
| Very moving. These stories had to have been very difficult to write as they are also difficult to read. You are doing a fabulous job with difficult subjects. I cannot say I like each of these, but I am moved by them. Thank you. Author Reply: Thanks. I don't necessarily like each of them, either, but these were ideas that wanted to be written and didn't fit into any of the actual stories, so I used this format to get them out of my hair. I'm glad that you found them worth reading. | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/17/2014 |
| Wow! That is... just wow! Sorry, but really, words escape me. Very powerfully written, Soledad. Keep it up. This is great! Author Reply: Thank you. I'm trying to pull this thing through. *fingers crossed* | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/17/2014 |
| This is very powerfully written, and quite an interesting concept to think about. Author Reply: Thank you. This is an idea I've been playing with for quite some time. I'm glad it sounds convincing. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/16/2014 |
| So this is how they were sundered, eh? Alas for Melkor's meddling. Author Reply: Yes, that is basically it. A sad tale no matter from which side you look at it, I think. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/15/2014 |
| A determined lady, I note. I'd forgotten about her--it's been a long time since I read much from my volumes of HoME. Author Reply: Yeah, well, she and her brothers are barely more than a footnote. No wonder you forget about them. | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/15/2014 |
| I'm really going to have to read or re-read "Vault of the Dead". I can't remember now if I ever did read it. At any rate, a most interesting look at some of the lesser Valar and your interpretation of them. I ended up turning them into Maiar instead. I figured that was safer. ;) Author Reply: If you really intend to re-read it, I suggest the FF.Net version. The one posted here had to be seriously butchered to fit the Rules. Rating is the same, but I had to omit an important plot element here without which the story just doesn't have the same impact, IMO. | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 12/14/2014 |
| We carry our own darkness into death and create our own special hells along with it. I firmly believe that. Purgatory is getting rid of the darkness. Some people can't or won't and they remain in hell though there is Light all around. I hope Aredhel is able to shed the darkness and accept the light. Fourth paragraph, the last "she" in the first sentence should be "he" since it refers to the Maia, Nornorė. Good to see him here, btw. I had him helping out in Mandos when Ingalaurė died. It's fun using minor (Maiar) characters that never got into the published Silmarillion, isn't it? Author Reply: Oh,yes, it is. I would never be able to come up with proper names otherwise. Thanks for the correction. | |
| UTfrog | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 12/14/2014 |
| Utterly chilling. Very, very well done. Author Reply: Thank you. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 12/13/2014 |
| Poor Celebrian. This must have been utterly heartrending for her. I like to think that the twins came eventually to join their parents. Author Reply: Who knows? The Professor never told us, so we can but hope. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 12/13/2014 |
| I always wonder what poor Elrond's homecoming would have been like. You really made me feel for him. Author Reply: Thank you. Elrond is a wonderfully tragic character who bears his burden in such an understated way I can't but admire him. :) | |