News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| Jay's Drabblets by Jay of Lasgalen | 6 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 4/23/2007 |
| Beautiful and touching... so very difficult living in that age... this brought me quite close to tears.... Author Reply: Wow. I always take that as a tremendous compliment - thank you! This started out as a letter from Legolas, but then I had to show Thranduil's reaction. | |
| Lianna | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 8/28/2005 |
| I cannot imagine what Legolas would write. Thranduil's letter is easy, though. "My dear son, Please take the utmost care with your personal safety during your journey -- so that I may have the pleasure of killing you myself when you return to Mirkwood." Actually, your Thranduil wouldn't write anything like that; he's too nice a guy. But I bet he was thinking it. ;) Author Reply: Yes, I think Thranduil would certainly be thinking something like that. 'Just wait till I get my hands on him ...' Thanks for the review - it made me laugh! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 8/25/2005 |
| Yes, this was great--I can't imagine what Legolas would have said, especially in a letter about the quest. I mean, "Hey dad, going to Mordor. Don't worry about me..." I don't think so. :-) And I can't imagine Thranduil's reaction to write back to him. This would be really tough and you showed that well here. I really liked this idea. I must look up those Tolkien Weekly challenges. Author Reply: I think Thranduil's reply would be along the lines of 'What in Mordor do you think you're doing? Get back here at once, I don't need you dead; I need you by my side.' The Tolkien Weekly challenges are good - I don't respond each time, it depends if inspiration strikes. Sometimes there's a ready-made drabble that fits, sometimes a new one comes to mind (as this one did). | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 8/24/2005 |
| Reminds me of Elladan's words to his adar. What can you say at such a moment - except 'I love you'? The mere committal of pen to paper gives reality to an event to which you would close your eyes. Duty, responsibility, saving the world - just don't balance the love of a parent for a child. And yet . . . you have to let them go. Poor Thranduil. Worse for him. And his son never really did come back. Physically uninjured, but still not unharmed. I'll bet he could have welcomed a hundred dwarves if only that would have returned the son who left. Still, there's always Valinor and the hope of peace returned. Author Reply: Yes, there are similarities to Elladan's letter - which is why the one from Legolas is merely hinted at. Legolas was fully aware of what a momentous decision he had made - whether you go with the movie version, with them all jumping up to volunteer (a scene I rather like), or the book version with Elrond having the difficult decision of who to pick: 99% risk of certain death; 1% risk of overwhelming glory. 100% chance of life never being the same again. A 'Dear Dad' letter would not be easy to write :( | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 8/23/2005 |
| Oh, our beloved Legolas, commiting himself to the quest. Author Reply: I've often wondered how Legolas explained that one to his father! Or what Thranduil's reaction was when he heard ... | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 48 on 8/23/2005 |
| It is hard to imagine what one could say in either of those situations. Words seem inadequate and yet they're treasured. Author Reply: I think there are many times when words themselves are not enough, or we do not know what to say. Yet the fact that they are said at all, and the feeling behind them, means so much. | |