Larner · 11 September 2009 · Chapter 18: From East To West
And the next chapter is blank!
Author's reply
Chapter 19 is there for me (both in the preview, and the actual chapter). I'm puzzled.
Luthien Tinuviel by Endaewen
Reviews (23)
Larner · 11 September 2009 · Chapter 18: From East To West
A good reason to beware that which comes from the east, and particularly those who have been too long under Morgoth and Sauron's influence.
Author's reply
It is. Thanks for the review.
Nariel · 3 September 2007 · Chapter 17: Success or Failure
These are fabulous! Thanks for including Finrod! I hope to see one from his P.o.V. soon. Have you read HOME: MOrgoth's Ring? (Maybe you could use FInrod or Beren comparing Aegnor/Andreth to Beren and Luthien?) Yeah, I still cannot believe you are going to be writing 100 of these! That is a lot of writing on Beren and Luthien. You must really enjoy the Lay of Luthien! How do you think of all these ideas? It sounds impossible from my view!
Well, Happy writing and Namarie!
Author's reply
I'm glad you liked it. Yes I have read Morgoth's Ring, however by now that was about four years or so ago, so I don't remember the details.
I'm writing off of a Tolkien themed 100 prompts community. If you are interested in finding out more about it, the url is http://fin.yserve.net/arda100/html/home.htm. It's not so much that I enjoy the lay, although I do, as when I was looking at the table of prompts, I could see stories for most of them involving Luthien.
Thanks for reading.
Nariel · 25 June 2007 · Chapter 14: Victory and Loss
I am glad that Luthien is giving Finrod and his companions their due in helping them achieve the Quest of the Silmaril. Isn't it amazing that where the numerous armies of the Noldor, Sindar and mortal Atani had failed, a Quest that included 14 members only (if I counted correctly) succeeded?????? Burying the body of King Finrod Felagund must have been one of the most tragic parts of the lay.
I forgot but did you already write a short story of how Thingol felt at Finrod's death? How Galadriel felt at the news of her eldest brother's death? If not will you write one please then? Please????????????
Namarie...
Author's reply
Thanks. Yes that is one of the amazing things.
I haven't written the one you asked about. I'll think about those though. Doing a hundred stories concerning Luthien is turning out to be rather a challenge, and is taking far longer than I though.
Nariel · 25 June 2007 · Chapter 6: War, Crafted by Skill
You have made Luthien sound so wise and fit to be the daughter of Melian in truth. I agree with her that does it not sound strange to begin a war over jewels even if they contain the light of the Two Trees that shall never after be... I like the wisdom that you give her when she realizes that though their son shall inherit a precious heirloom, that very heirloom will ruin and kill him.
Namarie...
Author's reply
Thank you. With the wisdom of Melian to learn from, it would be hard for her not to be wise.
I'm glad you like my stories.
Larner · 11 June 2007 · Chapter 17: Success or Failure
Yes, the jewel was in his hand, but his hand is now elsewhere. It now strikes me just how similar this is to what happened to Frodo--the Ring still on his finger but the finger bitten off just as happened with Beren's hand. At least in the case of the amputation with Frodo it freed him from a worse fate than he'd known so far.
Author's reply
I thought the technicality of the oath being fulfilled that way was an interesting one. I hadn't even thought of the similarity to Frodo though. Thanks for pointing it out.
Larner · 7 June 2007 · Chapter 16: Is This Destiny?
Nay, his fate is worse and more glorious than mere death.
Excellent images here.
Author's reply
Thank you for the review and the complement.
Larner · 7 June 2007 · Chapter 15: My Word Held
Promises kept are important.
Author's reply
Yes they are. Thanks for reviewing.
Larner · 7 June 2007 · Chapter 14: Victory and Loss
An apt tale for such a challenge, I must say. Alas for Finrod.
Author's reply
Thank you.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 12: Seeds of Destruction
Elves never dreamt mortals could achieve what the Man Beren accomplished; and two ages later Men never dreamt Halflings could do what was done by Frodo and Sam. The Elves perhaps had better hope, having learned the lesson taught by Illuvitar through Beren.
Author's reply
I'd not thought of it like that, but that view works well. Thanks for reading the story.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 13: The Black Enemy of the World
In the end Beleriand knew its end, but the remnant that survived carried with them the great tale of undreamt achievement and awe-filled love and endurance.
The uttering of Feanor's oath was so great and horrible a deed....
Author's reply
It was. But it brought both hope and tragedy. Hope that turned to tragedy.
Thanks for reading.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 11: Until the Servant too is Defeated
Indeed foresight the Queen of the Hidden Land has shown, and by one who will lose almost as much as have her daughter and her beloved.
Author's reply
I wonder though, if Melian would have met him again in Valinor and the Halls of Mandos. Some of the HoME suggest that that would have been possible.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 9: Shadows of Terrors Past
I love this look at the two of them from Melian's point of view. That she recognizes her husband's folly is wonderful. That she sees both the grief and the joy her daughter and her beloved know is even more precious.
Author's reply
Thanks for reading. I'm really glad you liked it.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 10: Beren's Tale
And so that former hero also fought the nightmare images he'd faced, and the terrors brought by being seen as the primary threat at the moment by the Enemy.
Author's reply
Being seen as the primary threat like that might be thought of as a perverse sort of honour though.
Thanks for reading.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 8: The Worry of Love
Definitely a dilemma Beren finds himself caught in; yet love is always perilous, and great love even more so.
Author's reply
Yes, and it makes for great tales.
Thanks for reading.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 7: Oaths and Rash Words
The unbreakable oath has to be one of the most wonderful and terrible truths to haunt Arda; and the sons of Feanor ought not to have caught themselves in that of their by then obsessed father.
Author's reply
No they shouldn't have.
It was both wonderful and terrible. Wonderful because they brought hope and knowledge to Beleriand, improving the lives of the Edain and the Sindar. Terrible because they themeselves managed to destroy so much of what they helped create and protect.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 6: War, Crafted by Skill
It appears that the Silmaril tended to bring out the worst in everyone, and having passed through Morgoth's keeping kept a curse of destruction about it that tended to bring death to all who coveted it.
Author's reply
But was that a curse, or was it just the oath. I'd say the curse WAS the oath.
Thanks for reading and reviewing.
Larner · 23 February 2007 · Chapter 5: The Future
Sometimes hope is all we have, and for Luthien to know it came somehow through her son must have been one bright spark in an otherwise dark foreseeable future.
Author's reply
Agreed. Thanks for reading.
Larner · 22 February 2007 · Chapter 4: Eyes of Ice
Oh, I would think so. And Melian would have been very aware of the seeming of Melkor. I would think it would haunt the nightmares of anyone.
Author's reply
Thanks for the review, and thanks for reading.
Amy · 26 July 2006 · Chapter 10: Beren's Tale
The man's raw story holds the elves spellbound. Hard times, really hard times. The First Age seems so raw.
Lovely work!
Author's reply
Thank you so much for the lovely review.
Larner · 3 May 2006 · Chapter 3: Wolves
A good meeting of the criteria set for the challenge.
Huan and Beren, both to die by the same jaw; but at least Carcharoth is no more.
Author's reply
Thanks for all three nice reviews.
Larner · 3 May 2006 · Chapter 2: Thingol's Folly
Grief indeed, from vanity and selfishness and a hope to confound fate.
Alas, Thingol, for what you have wrought in your attempt to keep your daughter to yourself. He ought to have listened to his wife.
Larner · 3 May 2006 · Chapter 1: Watching Doom Come
A most grievous moment for the lovers, to have him die in the moment of winning over such a foe and bearing the sign of that victory.