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| Deific Flame by Bejai | 61 Review(s) |
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| Sphinx | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/29/2004 |
| Lovely title for the story, btw. Made me look up the dictionary. ;) But I like it. I've been waiting for someone to come along and do a good Second Age Eregion story, and this has all the makings of one, even if I'm not the world's greatest Amroth shipper. Great sense of action in the beginning - it all seemed to happen fast, and it worked well. Calandil!!! *hugs* I LOVE Calandil. Ask Marnie. He was the one original character I genuinely adored in BoTG. Excellent confrontation with Galadriel and Celeborn with Celebrimbor. This is what Celeborn is really like - cool, calm, level headed even in the midst of such rioting. And I really, really liked Galadriel's reaction to her realization of Celebrimbor's betrayal. It makes his gift of Nenya to her all the more poignant. And Annatar's vedict on the Valar! Yes. Very well done. And Amroth was intriguingly interesting....wasnt Galadaran a name Tolkien originally intended for Celeborn? All in all, a brilliant opening chapter. You always manage to keep interest riveted. :) *prods for more asap* Author Reply: Thank you :) Glad you like the title. I was doing the Bilbo Baggins thing for this story. Had about 15 titles written out before I decided that I like this one. Far more traumatic to pick one then is reasonable. To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm an Amroth shipper either. But I thought I'd try it and see where it goes. I loved Calandil too. And when I needed a faithful, Glorfindelesque character who would look out for the family, but not be afraid to kick Celeborn in the rear from time to time, I couldn't get Calandil out of my head. Marnie was nice enough to let me borrow him, which was great. Galadaran is very close to a name that Tolkie nearly gave Celeborn. Celeborn's was, I believe, Galdaran. One less "a." I justified giving Amroth his other name a couple ways -- it was a mirror of "Celebrian," for one, and closely related to Galadriel's name. When someone else pointed out how close it was to Celeborn's original name too, I decided that it was destiny. Thanks for the review! | |