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With Hope  by AfterEver 27 Review(s)
galathilReviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/10/2012
Hi AfterEver. I have just come across your story and I am really hoping that you will finish it soon. Can't wait to what happens next.LOL Galathil

Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 5/7/2006
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Powerful, immediate and touching. Thank you.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 14 on 1/10/2006
I like that you have Arwen taking Aragorn's part.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 13 on 1/10/2006
I can see why Gilraen would go home. I'd have done it long ago. She doesn't really belong among elves. And Eru knows, she'd be uncomfortable enough now.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 12 on 1/10/2006
I wondered what I'd read and what I hadn't.

Gilraen is in a very difficult position. She's on site, where the trouble is, while Aragorn is far away. I can think of few things more aggravating.

Author Reply: __I wondered what I'd read and what I hadn't.__

Gah, I feel bad about that too. I could have spared people the trouble and confusion with a little forethought on my behalf. :-/

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 11 on 12/17/2005
You're exceptionally good at letting setting, movements, gestures, object suggest how people live and feel.

Author Reply: Thank you.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 10 on 12/17/2005
I liked your elves in their elfy moments--decorating with whatever comes to hand, dancing in the rain. They must exasperate Gilraen sometimes.

Author Reply: She would have me believe so, the prude. ;-)

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 9 on 12/17/2005
Interesting take on how Elladan might have looked at his father's history. What's your sense of why he'd want to be High King? Does he think he'd make a difference in the war against the shadow?

Author Reply: Well...I hesitate to say much before the story is ended. Lots of issues are at play in Elladan's tale, more than I plan to explore within the scope of Gilraen's story. Suffice to say there should be satisfactory resolution to what we've already touched upon, if more in-depth analysis of his ordeal doesn't find a place here.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/17/2005
It's interesting to think about how Estel was trained for his future. Presumably Elrond, Glorfindel, the twins, and Gilraen all held a part, but I'll bet hers lessened as he got older and took up the life of a warrior.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/9/2005
So I'm thinking about the timing here. Aragorn is 10. That means this is the year Bilbo and the dwarves passed through Rivendell. Did we see that already? I may be confusing this story with another. Did Glorfindel go to do something about that?

Author Reply: This would be the year for Bilbo's visit, yes - and of course I don't propose that it didn't happen. It's just that I understand other Gilraen-in-Rivendell stories have featured the incident, so I decided not to.

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