Reviews (46)

galathil · 20 May 2011 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

Another time and story,please will you write that story soon.I love this whole story,it was sad,funny,warm and wonderful.Galathil

Lindethiel · 15 December 2006 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

I loved this story! I cried a couple of times in it. I loved how you portrayed every one of the characters! it was great! thanx for writing this story! =D

love2draw · 14 June 2006 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

Awesome story! Loved it, I cried quite a few times too. Really well written, I can't even list all the little things I loved in it...funny, how towards the end I WAS thinking: "Sooo...is he going to get married now?"! Anyway, keep writting, you have talent in this! It's so annoying when people suddenly start criticizing every little thing about...well, not just fan fiction, anything really. Seriously, let it be... (I myself regret how bad my opinion of the LotR movies was because they didn't stick to the books) I can imagine Legolas being so sad about leaving his friends...I myself moved from another country 3 years ago. I miss that place soooooo much! But I know that all the people I knew are still alive...at least, the majority of them.

Tessara · 10 November 2005 · Chapter 10: Chapter 10

Wow,a great story!

Joee · 2 August 2005 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

I really enjoyed this story. Thank you for writing it.

Brazgirl · 25 May 2005 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

I love your epilogue! It's fine by me to see Legolas getting married. After all, we don't know what happened to him when he crossed the sea. I believe he found his match there. Nice phrase in the end!!!

Brazgirl · 25 May 2005 · Chapter 10: Chapter 10

That's good Legolas found his family and realized how much he means to them!!!

frodo16424 · 15 May 2005 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

Enjoyed the story. This story is just begging for a sequel. Please? I would love to read the story of Thranduil's secret. I will be keeping my fingers crossed.

daw the minstrel · 15 May 2005 · Chapter 999: Epilogue

I think a marriage is a perfect ending to this tale -- it's the traditional end to the novel, after all.

daw the minstrel · 8 May 2005 · Chapter 10: Chapter 10

You worked the metaphor through nicely here, Faith. Legolas past crumbles. That doesn't mean it goes away. Just that he can't cling to it with such pain and determination that it keeps him from going on with his life and learning to be happy again.

Brazgirl · 6 March 2005 · Chapter 9: Chapter 9

I am enchanted with your story. Very touching, so emotional! You almost brought me to tears several times, especially with that phrase of Aragorn. Great job!

Larner · 5 March 2005 · Chapter 1: Chapter 1

It's been a while since I read this story. Save for the fact both Merry and Pippin died in Minas Tirith and their tombs eventually were laid by Aragorn's after his own death, not too off canon. However, to see Legolas now in terms of being a young elfling still seems jarring in one who was several millenia old when he was in the Fellowship. But an interesting premise.

daw the minstrel · 5 March 2005 · Chapter 9: Chapter 9

I like the vision of his mortal friends in the circles beyond the world. Perhaps when Arda ends they'll all be reunited again.

daw the minstrel · 10 January 2005 · Chapter 8: Chapter 8

You have a pretty grim picture of the twins after their mother left. It's as if they went mad for a while and then came back to themselves again. Legolas is slowly getting to the bottom of what's bothering him, I think, but I'm not sure that he has a lot of choices for what to do about it.

daw the minstrel · 22 December 2004 · Chapter 7: Chapter 7

I liked Thranduil's analysis of how his children needed the two parents to balance one another. I also liked Legolas pinning Elladan down and loosening his hair. Thalion must have been astounded when it happened to him.

Shemyaza · 22 December 2004 · Chapter 7: Chapter 7

You've brought up a very interesting aspect of this whole 'Elves heading for the west and Valinor for healing' issue. I realise that Tolkien was trying to make his Elves very passionate and ethereal yet strong and fierce, but I constantly have trouble with his idea that these strong fierce people would just be so weak that they would fold, especially mothers of children. As a race they had gone through so much, I find it hard to believe that a mother, like Celebrian for example, would just leave her family when the going got rough. Plenty of women get raped in the real world and they don't have anywhere to escape to, they just have to suck it in and deal with it, and I imagine that the human women in Middle Earth would have done the same. They do it for the sake of the children who need them there. I know that as a mother myself I couldn't bring myself to just walk away from my children, even now, and they are grown up! A mother is generally a very fierce, protective creature when it comes to her offspring although there are always exceptions to the rule of course! To me, Valinor always sounds like a huge cop out bolthole and the Valars' almost jealous protectiveness of the Firstborn, was always far too proprietary. I think a race like the Elves would be made of stronger stuff somehow. However I do know that many admirers of the book feel that the poor tragic Elves, beautiful, wise and ancient yet full of sadness and tragedy are a very romantic aspect of the whole tale. I myself find it rather irritating sometimes. I like Tolkien's work, but I can't help thinking every time I read it and his notes/letters, that a lot of his own insecurities about life, death and relationships shines through, especially when it comes to the Eldar. If we are to suppose that Thranduil's Queen was absent from his early life because she just 'had to sail for the west' then if I had been Thranduil I would have found it almost impossible to believe that his wife could just abandon her child because she felt she just couldn't cope any more and it certainly wouldn't endear her to me as a partner. In fact I think I'd be rather annoyed to be left as a single father with a young child *and* a realm under threat to cope with. Again of course, Tolkien inferred that the bond between male and female was so deep that if one partner left or died, the other one would soon follow. Again another hopelessly romantic notion with no basis in practicality. I personally feel that Tolkien had a very stylised romantic idea about women in particular which had its roots in the era he lived in, where women were not considered equal. He appears to have an unrealistic notion about how they react to any given situation emotionally or otherwise. For example, He wanted Eowyn to sound like a tough shieldmaiden,butwhat she actually comes across as is needy and repressed rather than tough. Galadriel is meant to be wise, beautiful and all-seeing, but she comes across to me as a power-mad 'know it all' and her granddaughter has little to recommend her other than she is beautiful like Luthien, dances barefoot in the woods and embroiders a nice little banner when she has a mind to! I just feel that the fading and needing to go into the West is a weakness that doesn't sit well with the otherwise wise, perfect and pristine Elvenkind. If you're going to write about a superior race of beings and *want* the readers to be impressed with that aspect, then you don't give them feet of clay, or show them to have unresolved emotional issues or large amounts of emotional baggage. However, to get back to the point of your story, Legolas or indeed any other child, would have suffered a lot if his Naneth just toddled away for the Havens one day and nobody actually took the time to explain it to him. Children have a way of taking the blame for such things on themselves. No mother of any worth on this planet would willingly put her child through that sort of distress. Not even a supposedly superior Elven mother. Sorry about the rant, I am just always pleased when I find a story where such things aren't just 'explained' away or happen without consequences. Hopefully Legolas would gradually come to terms with the notion of 'death' and what it means to those left behind.

Wopt · 4 December 2004 · Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Sad sad sad. Why did you have to make me go and cry like that! AHHHHHHH! You have a way with words that I could only dream of. I love how you dont seem to make the elves so supreme. Like they dont have feelings. It really adds a sweet touch to the fic. Wopt

Tamuril · 2 December 2004 · Chapter 6: Chapter 6

I am crying. I can barely see what im tyoing. NO fair making me cry. Very good story.

Tamuril · 2 December 2004 · Chapter 5: Chapter 5

I really like your story so far. I find your interpretation of Legolas to be very human and real. Truthfully, i have cried during parts of this story. You are very talented at writing. There are a couple of structural errors (nothing serious really just a little distracting from the reading). Otherwise, I really like this story, I like how you've given flesh to all of Legolas' family. Keep it up!

Duchess · 1 December 2004 · Chapter 6: Chapter 6

You changed it for me? *awed* Wow! Thank you... *not sure what else to say to that* :) Okay, is Legolas letting go, truly grieving and healing now? I really REALLY hope so! Thranduil doesn't want to hurt his son any more than the poor thing already has been, but maybe thanks to the twins he won't have to. *crossing my fingers* His ailment is that heart is literally being ripped in two? Ouch! Don't think that would make him cough up blood, but hey, who says Elven anatomy is EXACTLY like that of Men? ;) This is your story, write it as you see fit. *vbg*

daw the minstrel · 1 December 2004 · Chapter 6: Chapter 6

Poor Legolas! That's a lot of deaths to watch. Most of us mortals take for granted that we'll see those older than us die and many if not most of our age mates, but for an elf that would be a new experience outside of war.

Larner · 1 December 2004 · Chapter 6: Chapter 6

It is not as I would have envisioned it, but it is indeed your story. Congratulations on doing well with it.

- · 30 November 2004 · Chapter 6: Chapter 6

i love the way you portray legolas and how emotionally attached he was to his friends and how he never really understood ot accepted the concept of death. that was really great. don't take too long for the next chapter

Any · 27 November 2004 · Chapter 5: Chapter 5

Hello, this is Any from the MC group! *waves & smiles*. Finally I had the time to catch up with your latest chapter and I must say I absolutely love this story! Legolas' pain is so real and his siblings' concern and also their anger are so well written. I wonder if some of them (like Thalion) are really angry at Legolas for "being selfish" or rather at themselves for not being able to help their little brother. Legolas is right, Mithrandir is not really a part of "his" fellowship, he left too soon after the War of the Ring. Poor Legolas. He is like a lost little child that had never been prepared for all the pain it would have to endure. I love Thranduil for being so patient and gentle and good with his son. I am curious to see what Elrond will do. I am sure he understands a lot of Legolas' pain - he has lost the same loved ones (Arwen and Aragorn) and maybe he and the twins will be able to help Legolas get over his loss. This is such a wonderful and sad tale. Don't let anyone discourage you. There might be other point of views on Legolas' life in Valinor, but Tolkien left it to us, his readers, to phantasize about it. And your tale is wonderful. I can't wait to read more. ~Any

lmw · 22 November 2004 · Chapter 5: Chapter 5

I was so glad to see a new chapter. When I read a story, I'm looking for entertainment,good writing and something that keeps me wanting more. I've read LotR and seen the movies, and I really don't care if the story I'm reading matches up. This story made me cry with the first chapter and eagerly await more. I have NOT been disappointed. I read a lot of LotR fiction, here and other sites, and if I don't like a story, I don't finish it or look for new chapters. Definitely finished this one (so far) and definitely looking for more.