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| The Queen's Orc by jodancingtree | 3 Review(s) |
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| Calime | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 10/4/2004 |
| This tender moment was very well rendered, and Ilike how you incorporated the dialogue from the appendix. | |
| Breon Briarwood | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 4/14/2004 |
| no... *sniff* Author Reply: Yes... *sniff* | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 4/14/2004 |
| The hours are dark in more than one way. Does Aragorn have regrets, now as his end approaches? I always thought I saw regrets in Arwen's grief, but no guilt in Aragorn over the sacrifice she has made for him. Did not someone famous once say that much is said about our lives in how we accept death? In Tolkien's world, death is a grace, and Aragorn is accepting it gracefully, as did Frodo. I think Arwen is more like Sam was at the end of his life. Canohando's fatalism about death feels different from both. I wonder how he will react to the deaths of the King and Queen. Author Reply: Yes, they are. I think Tolkien said that Arwen "was not yet weary of her life" when it came time for Aragorn to die, so she must have had some deep regrets about that, although probably not about her choice to marry him. I think you've pegged both her and Aragorn's level of acceptance accurately. Canohando is a different case: he sees death in terms of "orcs live until someone slays them", and that has made him fatalistic. I doubt he ever really thought about the mortal condition: that death can come peacefully, by old age, until he saw Lash's wife die. Then it hit him, and he hurried back to Mordor, looking for Frodo. In this story he's forced to come to terms with the deaths of Frodo, Aragorn, and Arwen - all three of whom he has come to love - and not in the violent style he always associated with death. It has to have a profound effect on him... jo | |