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The Nan Elmoth Apprentice  by French Pony 6 Review(s)
LaineyReviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/29/2009
Nice work! Maeglin and Aredhel are two of my favorite characters and I often feel there is not enough fanfiction centered around them. Thanks for writing!

elliskaReviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/19/2005
Catching up again...

First let me say that I am really sorry this story is over and I hope you write more Eol and Maeglin again.

I really think you did a great job showing Eol as a character who was messed up but just didn't see that in himself and showing the child's transformation from Lómion to Maeglin. I particularly like in this last chapter when Aredhel calls him Maeglin and Eol calls him Lómion while trying to comfort him. That was very powerful.

Great story!

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/17/2005
Poor Maeglin. Although he should realise that if his mother is to keep the peace for him, she will have to accept Eol's name. And, in her heart, he will always be Lomion.

This is not a happy household. It's no wonder Maeglin turned out the way he did.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005
Sometimes I feel very sad for children. You see them when they're little, and they're all vulnerable and hopeful and eager for life. And so many of them get just beaten down by life. Every twisted adult you see was once like that.

perellethReviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005
Now! you got me going back to see how exactly Aredhel addressed her son in his father's presence, you clever FP :-)

This is a disturbing subject in general terms, yet the thing around the naming is an intersting event in Maeglin's turbulent life.

I must confess that I never understood Eöl, either, and that sentence saying that "It was never told that Aredhel wasn't happy..." in the Silm always made me wonder. Kind of dwarvish elf, if there ever was one! Anyway it was very interesting to read about this strange family! I hope you find time and inspiration to keep elaborating on them!

NilmandraReviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/15/2005
Poor Maeglin.... he is torn between these two people who fight over him in ways far more subtle than two gulls fighting over a fish. He went from having an indefnite identity to two identities and now only one... and what a shock to him. Very sad.

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