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May the Valar Protect Them  by Nilmandra 1 Review(s)
rgbjReviewed Chapter: 19 on 1/9/2004
Leges walked. Clever sweet elfling. Don't you just love him to bits. About the only cheerful thing that happened in this chapter that's for sure.
A month in that wagon. This gives new meaning to 'are we there yet?'.
Hazad covering his tracks. He is clever if short sighted. What is it with idiot men who think women are so much baggage to be bartered with no say in the matter. As Thranduil said what kind of man would use a child to coerce the mother into what is essentially slavery.
The Sea of Rhun. If they weren't in such dire straits this could be a really good adventure.
Hazad sure has a way with children. Not a good way mind you just a way. He has to assert his dominance.
When my daugher would get her baby shots I always had her nurse during the actual shot time. She would freeze and then desperately nurse until she calmed herself down. It really is a comfort to a baby.
The trees don't even recognize them. They are in far off territory. Hazad says elves never come there. Never doesn't mean forever never. He doesn't have a clue as to the motives of elves. Tathiel may have to wait but she can easily outlive him and his descendants.
Hazad is good at control and domination. He must have practiced it on his family for many years. No wonder his brother was so mean. At least Tal-Elmar isn't a tyrant like his father and has some doubts about the wisdom of this. Hazad is so smug in his ignorance of anything elven. Perhaps a human woman might accept this situation if forced too and so far away from home but not an elf. They don't have overweening pride for nothing.
How will Tathiel and the girls cope in such a patriarchal society? Although Tolkien's societies do have that late Victorian view of women also. He just hid it better.
Well that was a painful chapter. I get a litle frisson at what they will have to put up with next. Especially Tathiel.

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