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Fragments of a love story  by Nesta 3 Review(s)
LarnerReviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/24/2009
Ah--Eldarion! What a shock to the young man! Alas he must know such rejection. Alas she should be blind to his love.

Author Reply: Inescapable fact: being a great man or woman doesn't enable you to compel people to love you. It's really hard to believe that just by loving someone you can force them to love you hack, but it's true. I know!

Author Reply: Inescapable fact: being a great man or woman doesn't enable you to compel people to love you. It's really hard to believe that just by loving someone you can't force them to love you back, but it's true. I know!

Linda HoylandReviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/23/2009
I just loved the idea of the moon festival.

Author Reply: I think Ithilien would have to have one! And I suspect there were a lot of sore heads after it, as well.

daw the minstrelReviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/22/2009
I love the idea of the moon festival and the dance. I've never seen anything like it. It's so fae.

Author Reply: Well, in a way it's just imitated from Lúthien's dance, which seems to have been vey near the core of Tolkien's relationship with his secondary world. (He had 'Lúthien' put on his wife's tombstone and 'Beren' on his own.) But it's very much part of how I see Fíriel, as well.

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