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| Do not Meddle in the Affairs of Wizards... by perelleth | 4 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/25/2007 |
| Alas, poor Gildor--runs off at Celebrian's displeasure only to think he's returning to it, too! Bless our Gandalf and his ability to rescue folks and truly bring them to their senses! Bless him indeed. And nice to see how this "harmless old man" proves to be none of those things! Heh! Author Reply: Thank-you, lArner! I have trouble writing Gandalf, but I think that his being around during most of the third age must have been a blessing for many people... | |
| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/24/2007 |
| Nice wrap-up! There were a couple of the little details I especially enjoy, aside from Gandalf barely veiled warnings to Celebrian. One was her appearance on the stairs. Ooo, a very icy reception from a hot-tempered lady! ;) And Gandalf's "funny hat"! Loved how you played around with that! A powerful,sagely wizard deceiving/testing the foolish brigands in the guise of a weak, old man. Very faery. Gildor "feeling somewhat renewed" after getting cleaned up. Man oh man, how true, how true... His encounter with Arwen was very nice. Celebrian's paraphrasing Do Not Meddle "in family affairs" to Gandalf! And, his getting the quote in as well later. Aha! So, it was a promise to keep an eye on Galadriel! Of all people! Someone twice banned! No wonder Gildor was depressed about getting home again! I was happy for the ending resolution with everyone mellowing out. I gotta say I like your lineage for Gildor as Findis' grand-son. If you don't mind, I think I might go with that instead of vague connection I thought I would use for CSING. I don't remember his hair color being mentioned, but strong Vanyarin lines and family connections make me fancy him as a fair-headed fellow too. Weill, I enjoyed this 'long chapter'. Such warnings mean nothing to my kind! ;) Author Reply: THak-you! At times I feel I am imposing on kind readers with such long chapters, but there was no way that I could divide this one if I wanted to keep to the quote... And you are very kind as always. When I read Galadriel's meting with Hrassa I was tempted to erase this whole part, since it seemed so pale in comparison... but then I ahd to admit that I am bad at writing strong feelings, so no way that it could be improved.. so there it remained. YOu are right that there is no mention to Gildor's hair color, just a whim because of his vanyarin connections, Tolkien being so prone to ignore the female line and me making him Finrod's son in the first story that I ever wrote... YOu are welcome to use it...and now I'm looking forward to seeing him featuring in CSING! :-) THank-you again! | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/22/2007 |
| You have the best explanation for "Gildor Inglorion" that I've seen yet (though you might want to explain why "Inglorion" signifies the third house). Author Reply: Thak-you eiluj. I am following one of those loose threads left by Tolkien in which he said that INglor was Finrod's mother name. So INglorion would mean belonging to the house of INglor, that is, Finrod. | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/22/2007 |
| What a great conclusion to the tale, Perelleth. I shivered at the irony of Gildor saying that Celebrian knew nothing of sorrow and Mithrandir telling her they weren't meant to give in to grief. Author Reply: Thank you daw... Shameless foreseeing when knowing the ending is this... :-) | |