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| Filled with Light as with Water by Larner | 1 Review(s) |
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| Inkling | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 4/8/2005 |
| Oh dear. I was nervous about the title of this chapter, and my worries have proved justified: Frodo is…dematerializing? or Becoming, as you put it. Very beautiful, disturbing, and mysterious…and the idea of it happening to Eärendil, too, is inspired. While he was given the choice of the Half-Elven, and so theoretically could have remained mortal, that’s not to say he would have had much physical form left at that point. And really, how else could he have sailed the heavens—even an Elf couldn’t do that. Making him a spirit of Light is a good solution. I didn’t recognize the word “fanes”—what does it mean? Author Reply: "Fanes" is another word for "hallows"--a sacred place for prayer, meditation, and communion with the gods and powers. Am not certain of the etiology--I think I read it first in Sutcliff's works, but it may have been elsewhere. Probably old English in derivation. As the Isle of Eressea did not begin as part of Aman, I tend to see it as being somewhat less visited by the Valar themselves save at a special place, and so I postulated the Fanes as the place where those who wished to commune with them could or would go to do so. The idea of the metamorphosis goes back to the foreseeing of Gandalf as Frodo wakens in Rivendell, thinking of Frodo becoming like a vessel as of glass filled with light as with water, for eyes to see that can. From this I took the titles of my first two fanfics. | |