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| In Love's Sweet Embrace I Sleep by Lindorien | 12 Review(s) |
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| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 1/12/2004 |
| I love your interpretation of Boromir. I think there is a tendency to over-simplify a complex and quiet man. The truest testimony of a man's character has ever been his willingness to lay down his life for his friends. Boromir did that for the hobbits Merry and Pippin. With that sacrifice, I believe he laid to rest all else in which he may have erred. Beautiful story! Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: I am so glad you said that about Boromir! The man is the end result of what has gone before. Whatever Boromir's faults were, they were no worse than any man's faults, but his nobility is what shines and that is an aspect oft forgotten. He may have been a prideful man, but his brother thought he was pretty wonderful also. Boromir didn't get there in a vacuum. Thank you for reading this. I am glad you enjoyed it. Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 1/12/2004 |
| Sigh. Beautiful poem to end a beautiful piece. Again, you cast new light on characters who have been too long cast into one mold only. Thank you! Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: Thank you. I spent hours looking for the three poems for this piece. I laugh because I sometimes think it was more time than I spent actually writing the thing. I was looking for a poem for the epilogue and could find nothing suitable. I looked and looked and looked and told myself, "I could write one faster." So I did. But I must admit that the poems I did find helped inspire the story. Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 1/12/2004 |
| Oh, Eru! It is late. I am sleepy. I pray I am not mistaken. PLEASE tell me this means what I think it does! Ai, Elbereth! I weep with joy. Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: Yes, it does means what you think it does. But Faramir isn't going to do anything about it. The lady made her choice and found her contentment and she raised her son away from what she must have considered a somewhat unhealthy atmosphere at the palace. She wanted her son to be content. In the end, they each found their contentment. Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/12/2004 |
| Very complex chapter with a myriad of emotions. I found myself in great sympathy with the husband and was glad that Boromir seemed able to think of him with some kindness. The sadness of her not carrying the children to term was immense. I am glad that Boromir was able to come to terms with that aspect of the relationship. Interesting dynamics in the whole story but especially this chapter. Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: Thanks so much. Boromir was a noble fellow. In the end he proved that nobility, though he went through fire to get there. Sort of like at the end of FOTR... I like this chapter a lot also. I'm glad you did also. | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 1/12/2004 |
| *Elf strides forward and presents the "Crossed Beech Leaves of Taur E-Ndaedelos" Award to Lindorien for the shortest chapter she has ever read!* Sweet, though. Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: An interlude, no more. That little bit of peace before the end. He is shortly off to Imladris and this is his exit from her life. Accepts award gratefully and tearfully. An award! Nobody's ever given me an award before! Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 1/12/2004 |
| Elf paid attention to little warning button this time. She even caught double entendre about thickness. Mercy! Human beings are so forward in their lovemaking. Elf would still be tuning his lyre at this point. *Fixes human with glare as Lindorien snickers at image of elf tuning lyre.* Let this elf tell you, Fair One, if the Big Denethor had caught her canoodling with his son, Elf would have run for Mandos as if Carcharoth himself were on her heels! Whoa, Mama! Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: But humans have not the lifespan of an elf, Fair Dottir. They must procreate quickly and often or, as a species, they would die out. They must be forward in their lovemaking, or they would be backwards in their numbers. They tune their lyres just like Elves. They just do it more quickly and more often. Shall you never grant Big D no quarter? Will you do like PJ and fling his flaming body from the high places of Minas Tirith in a scene reminiscent of something Barnum and Bailey would do for one of their circus acts? Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/11/2004 |
| Well, how can I react to such nobility in Boromir? By proclaiming in a loud voice, IT'S ABOUT TIME! He is such a noble, if flawed, human to me in these books. At least for this chapter, it is nice to see him doing all the right things. Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: He's no more flawed than any other human in these books, and every bit as noble. This is such a different sort of way of looking at Boromir. I am glad that you are enjoying it. I decided also that it was about time there was more to him than, the one who fell to the ring, or the one who died. I made it up, but I like to ijmagine him with this backstory. Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 1/10/2004 |
| *Elf lies prone on the leaf-carpeted floor of Taur-E-Ndaedelos. Her kin hover above her and fan her gently, concern deep within their great and loving elven eyes. What has befallen their Scribe?* Sweet Eru! Warn an elf when this is going to get so. . .warm! Whew! We did not take that little button at chapter beginning seriously. This was a mistake. Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil (if my liege seeks me, I head for the nearest cold river!) Author Reply: Surely, Fair Dottir, thou hast learned to take all my buttons seriously! Take any future buttons seriously, also. Thou art warned. I hope you enjoy the rest as much as you, evidently, enjoyed this one! Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/10/2004 |
| Good Lack! Denethor is almost--dare I say it--likeable here. Well, let's not get crazy. He is understandable. An accomplishment over most Big D stories! Like the relationship and interaction of Boromir and Faramir. Hey, you could start a trend! The first family of Ithilien as not quite dysfunctional! And, liking GIRLS! *Elf slaps herself for being disrespectful to "great" writers. She is ashamed--almost.* Humble Scribe to his Majesty Thranduil Author Reply: LOL! I have Denethor acting like a father in later chapters also... Gosh. I hope nobody finds out. All these characters are multi-dimensional. All we see from Tolkien is an end product of the years that went before. We also see the end product for all the Family Gondor at a time of great stress. Both brothers turned out to be pretty decent human beings. Their mother was dead from the time they were but 5 and 10 years old. SOMEBODY guided them to the point we pick up in the story. Denethor was not always the grief-crazed man we see in ROTK. If he had been, Boromir would have been far less a willing and accepting member of the Fellowship in FOTR and Faramir would not have been wise enough to leave the Ring by the side of the road. Both those boys did their duty. Denethor ruled Gondor successfully for decades against an increasingly more dangerous threat. I choose to let the characters have some depth. I do not say that Denethor is a warm and fuzzy character, but neither do I see him as the one-dimensional SOB I so often see depicted in fic. Sorry about the boys liking girls part. I didn't want to offend anybody with that. There are many reasons men do not marry and it seems unfair to make the 'modern-day' presumption as to the reason simply because the guy didn't marry. I've even written stories in which men share beds and...SLEEP! There are plenty of stories giving the obvious alternate reason for Boromir's state of unwedded bliss. I merely seek to even that score. Lindorien | |
| Orophins Dottir | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 1/8/2004 |
| Wonderful! I have always longed for Boromir to have a little love in his gallant life before he lost it defending the Little Ones. Thank you. Author Reply: Me too. I'm glad you are enjoying this. | |