Ces
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
I can't help but get a picture in my mind of those two men in one corner writing out their version, Námo in another writing one to circumvent theirs and Atar in a third quietly conceiving his own to outsmart them both. Meanwhile, the fourth corner is just waiting for the dwarves to come along once they hear of this prophecy and come up with their 'correct' version!
This was funny from beginning to end and I enjoyed it very much. A needed laugh and perfect timing as I took a break from work!
Ces
Author's reply
Hi Ces. Yes, the image you describe is almost what I had in my mind when I was writing this, except it wasn't Dwarves but Hobbits in the fourth corner! And I could see Atar helping them write it, too! LOL I'm glad you enjoyed it and it brightened your day. Thanks for letting me know.
Ellie
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
hahahha I love it!
Author's reply
I'm glad.
Kitty
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
Well, I have to agree with these men - Námo was regrettably remiss with this prophecy, leaving the Secondborn out of it! No wonder they decided to change it a bit.
When Námo complained to Manwë, I was already grinning, and the end left me laughing aloud. Námo going to make a third one to counter the second, and Atar countering that with a fourth - that was great! And of course, now I'm dying to know what these other prophecies are!
Author's reply
You can blame Tolkien for the confusion between the different versions of the Second Prophecy, which makes it rather fun for me as a writer. I have no idea what the other two prophecies are about, but I'm sure that ultmately Atar will have the final say and the last laugh.
Larner
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
Yes, Iluvatar is a step ahead of them all! Heh--messin' with our heads!
Author's reply
And a good thing, too, or I suspect we would all be in lot more trouble than we already are or deserve to be. LOL
Kaylee Tonks-Lupin
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
*Giggles* I wonder who those two are and if they're going to get the 'wrath of Mandos' unleashed on them...
Third Prophecy, hm? *Curious*
*Fourth* Prophecy?! *Even MORE curious as it's from Atar!!!!*
~Kaylee!
*who starts squealing and bouncing excitedly every time my inbox alert says you posted something, Fiondil!*
Author's reply
They are just two anonymous Edain who unwittingly helped sow confusion as to what will happen at the End of Days. And who knows what kind of prophecy Námo concocted or what Atar came up to circumvent everyone's expectations? We'll probably have to wait until the End to find out. LOL Glad you liked this.
Beruthiels Cat
· 26 March 2008
· Chapter 10: PROPHECY: Changing the Future
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! 'bout fell outta my chair over this one!
Love it!!!!!
Cat
Author's reply
*Grin* Now you see why I told you I'd been thinking of the Dagor Dagorath lately. Glad you enjoyed this one. Thanks for letting me know.
I'll admit that I wondered what you might do with the "problem child"...but with everything you've presented to us about the Valar thus far, this is very appropriate to Fëano's need. Dreams are strange things, aren't they? Glad you wrote this, and am still hoping you'll eventually get around to writing the Dagor Dagorath. *grin,accompanying cannonball hint* I still think you're one of the (very) few who could successfully pull it off!
Cat
Author's reply
Thanks Cat, I appreciate the vote of confidence. I would like to write the Dagor Dagorlad someday but first I want to write about the Darkening and I have to finish Glorfindel's tale as well, though at this rate I have the feeling we'll all be in the old people's home before I do. LOL Glad you enjoyed this little tale. Thanks for reviewing.
I think I'll need to read this several times to truly appreciate it. My initial reaction was I didn't like it very much, though I couldn't put my finger on why. It took me a bit to begin to really get what was going on and now... I'm still of mixed emotions on it. I both like and dislike it, if that is possible. It evoked strange emotions, but the ending is joyful and so I approve. *grin*
Author's reply
I admit this is not an easy tale to read or understand so I can understand your ambivalent feelings about it. It came to me twice in dreams. The first time, I only got as far as Namo's interaction with Feanor, the second time (some months later, actually) I dreamt it again but this time to the very end. It was not easy to write, either, but the muse was insistent. Anyway, I hope in time, with subequent readings, you will at least not dislike it even if you don't exactly like it. *grin*
6336
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
Hm, I wonder what the elves in Aman think about the return of this Reborn, I think Feanaro will be getting a very cool reception from the Firstborn and others!
More please,
Lynda
Author's reply
I'm sure that by that time especially with Arda Renewed all is forgiven and Feanor will find acceptance.
SurgicalSteel
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
This was lovely!
Author's reply
Glad you liked this. Thanks for letting me know.
obsidianj
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 7: WAR: A Promise Before Dying
This is great. I love it. So Elrond not only found his wife, but also his king when he arrived in Valinor. Ereinion should not be too hard on Elrond. He kept his promise and saw the ring destroyed, just not the way Ereinion envisioned it. The way was a bit longer and more crooked.
Author's reply
As Olorin says, there's more than one way to keep a promise and as Namo told Boromir in another context, Eru draws straight with crooked lines. Glad you liked this. Thanks for reviewing.
Author Reply: As Olorin says, there's more than one way to keep a promise and as Namo told Boromir in another context, Eru draws straight with crooked lines. Glad you liked this. Thanks for reviewing.
Jasmine
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
Another beautiful piece--I love the concept. :)
Author's reply
Thanks, Jasmine. I'm glad you enjoyed this.
Jasmine
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
Oh, no! I should have listened to your warnings--I nearly had disaster stike with my keyboard ... It was just to funny! Absolutely loved it. :)`
Author's reply
Those warnings are there for a reason. LOL Glad you enjoyed this.
Rhyselle
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
The first time I read this when you showed it to me privately, it took me several readings to really understand this story. But I adored it from the first. Like Feanor, like things that happen in our real lives, understanding frequently ends up following the experience, particularly in matters of love, trust and forgiveness. As Edlyn pointed out, our own perceptions of what God gives to us are frequently coloured by our choices and experiences, and in our marred state, it takes many lessons for us to see what is Truth and to accept it and embrace it, until we, too, are able to be reborn.
I wonder if to a newborn soul, traveling that uncomfortable path when being pressed forth from its mother's body seems like what Feanor experiences with the Valar. A descent into what seems like darkness... but there's life and joy on the other side of the journey... I like the thought that we, as spirit offspring of God, chose to take that step into a mortal life, as Feanor chose to step off the precipice into Love.
Feanor needed to achieve spiritual rebirth before he could be granted physical rebirth.
Thanks for posting this. It's wonderful! Happy Easter!
Author's reply
I suppose that in many ways the experiences of someone being born physically might be similar to what Feanor experiences spiritually, though we end up in our mothers' arms rather than Namo's. *grin* I think Feanor had the harder time of it though. Thanks for reviewing. Happy Easter!
Edlyn
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
This made me weep, meldonya. But they were glad tears, tears of grace. For some reason this was a wonderfully appropriate thing to read on Good Friday. We are always being pushed into Love we just need to realise it instead of making assumptions based on our own guilt and misconceptions.
May we all step off into Love, accepting what is given freely to us and Love those who love us. Happy Easter.
Edlyn
Author's reply
This was not an easy tale to write and it developed from a dream (actually two dreams) in which I experienced this as Feanor did, i.e. I was as much in the dark about what was going on as he was until the end. When NiRi gave this prompt I thought it was an appropriate story for Good Friday with its theme of reconcilation, forgiveness and the promise of new life. So readers can consider this my Easter gift to them. *grin* Happy Easter.
Larner
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
Lucifer falling? Falling until he finally is able to accept living once more? This one has me a bit puzzled. The constant fall of the one who was once best and brightest and who fell spiritually the most--now he's finally stopped falling. Was it what the Valar truly did to him, or merely his punishment of himself?
Author's reply
I don't think you read the ending carefully enough, Larner. We're talking about Feanor, not Lucifer. The key is in his realization at the end that he was never falling into darkness and despair but into Love, into the arms of Eru, from whom he probably assumed would never forgive him for his sins. He is passed among the Valar three times, once for each Silmaril, where he is constantly reminded that he is loved in spite of what had happened, but he needs to accept that for himself, hence the 'little push' off the mountain. Only at the very end does he 'get' it. He isn't falling down, but up (hence the title). And as the Valar keep reminding him (and us), this isn't a punishment but a lesson.
Kitty
· 21 March 2008
· Chapter 9: RECONCILIATION: Ascent
That was an interesting look at Fëanor and his experiences after he died. I needed myself some time to understand what the Valar tried to achieve with this, though not as much as Fëanor himself ;-)
Well, now he can wait for the Remaking of the world, I suppose ... Sometimes I wonder if he and his sons could bear rebirth at all before that, after all they did.
Author's reply
There is every indication that Feanor and his sons would not be allowed rebirth until the very end with the Remaking. So this tale really speaks of a distant future in the history of Arda.
Larner
· 18 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
White not her color? Okay.... Seems she looked well in white in the movies.
Auth! Auth! Auth! And Melkor's head over the mantel? Heh!
Author's reply
Oh well... what can I say? *grin*
Edlyn
· 18 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
Oh my goodness, meldonya, this had to be the funniest thing I've ever read in LOTR fanfic ever! I was hearing Vivien Leigh's voice in my head through the whole thing and trying to stifle my laughter so as not to disturb my upstairs neighbor who works the night shift. And the last line... I'm surprised my ribs aren't broken from laughing so hard (and it's true, white is definitely NOT her colour).
This was (to quote my Aunt Sally) "a hoot" to read!
Edlyn
Author's reply
Thanks Edlyn. I'm pleased you found this so funny. I'm sure you can see I had fun writing it. Thanks for reviewing.
UTfrog98
· 18 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
I am so glad I read the part about not drinking while reading or I would have spit coffee all over the keyboard.
This is just marvelous! Thank you
Author's reply
You're welcome. I do try to give warnings when I think it may be needed. Of course, some people refuse to heed them, as you may have noticed from the comments of other readers. *grin*
artistic sprite
· 18 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
White is not her colour? I see why she keeps wearing it in LOTR then...is it to spite Melian?
Author's reply
Probably. I refuse to question the so-called logic of female thinkng. Maybe Celeborn likes her in white. Who knows?
Kitty
· 18 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
I see Galadriel has adopted Glorfindel's favourite curse ;-)
For some reason it seemed very funny to have Galadriel, of all ellith, complain about war talk. Somehow I see her not as the most feminine elleth in the world. And it appears she didn't listen to Melian, either, about wearing white *grin*
Author's reply
Well, I always thought Galadriel to be the least "feminine" of all of Tolkien's female characters, so her acting like the epitome of the Southern Belle was just too funny. And no, it doesn't seem she took Melian's advice at all, did she? *grin*
SurgicalSteel
· 17 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
Thanks for the beverage warning, it was needed. I'm going to be haunted by visions of Galadriel saying 'Well fiddle-dee-dee' now.
*snerk* Dare I ask who Rhett Butler would be? ;)
Very funny!
Author's reply
Dare I ask who Rhett Butler would be?
Do you think Celeborn ever told Galadriel, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a d***"? LOL
Glad you enjoyed this. Thanks for reviewing.
eliza61
· 17 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
Pui-en-orch: I think my coke just went up my nose. That's what I get for trying to read this and eat lunch at the same time.
Thanks for brightening up a dreary Monday.
I don't think I'll ever look at Galadriel the same.
Well done,
E
Author's reply
Well, I did warn you, didn't I? Glad it brightened your day, especially if it was a dreary Monday (the worse kind of Mondays there is). After this I don't think anyone is going to look at Galadriel quite the same. *snerk*
Beruthiels Cat
· 17 March 2008
· Chapter 8: WAR: Gwann nan iHûl
Us southern gals should be mightily offended, suh...but we ain't. *grins with saucy wink* Well Done!
Miz Kitty
Author's reply
Well Cat, as I have Southern ancestors myself, I suppose I'm allowed to get away with it. But you have to admit, the idea was too good to ignore. Glad you liked it.