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| Sapphire Aurae by Bejai | 2 Review(s) |
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| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/20/2003 |
| This was wonderful, poetic, and terrible. Elrond's temptation was deeply realized. How awful to have fought this battle so many times, to think you've won, and to see if come again. Fabulous chapter, Bejai. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 11/20/2003 |
| What the Ring showed Elrond was truly hideous. It offered him false hope to do good and Elrond saw the lies. So it told him his fate when he was under Sauron's control and it was hideous. To think he could become the Dark Star and be an unwilling slave, as perhaps some of the Nazgul are, is as awful a fate as one can imagine, when one longs for death but cannot have it. Again, truly wonderful. I have never read a tale that more perfectly captures the power of the rings. And I like how you have shown the sea longing awakened in his heart. He holds off against its call until the end, though. One thing one must say about Elrond and Galadriel, perhaps Cirdan and Gandalf too - they stayed until the end, not knowing if they would be enslaved, but the responsiblity they carried kept them bound to ME for so long I am amazed at the hope they maintained. And all of them declined the Ring. Thanks for showing us Elrond's temptation - it was a missing piece of Tolkien's work. | |