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| Oak and Willow by Marnie | 74 Review(s) |
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| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 10/10/2004 |
| I have always thought the edict of Elu Thingol was very powerful symbolically. Language is a very intimate thing and being forced to abandon your own language is a very intense loss of identity. I love the way you have used this here. I see this is the last chapter posted at the moment. I will be waiting for more. This was spectacular! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 10/10/2004 |
| They bowed in reverence to Bronwë the Castellan as they passed him, and there seemed no falseness in it, but she felt for the first time that she understood Celeborn's words to her brothers in Doriath. 'The children of the royal line of Doriath are acknowledged as the rightful rulers of all Ennor.' It was a quiet power, unobtrusive. Less like the clear and visible authority of a king, and more ...organic, like the scarce to be traced lines of influence within a large, contented family. And Nerwen, to whom the threads and interweaving of power were an absorbing interest, discovered something new to be intrigued about in her lover. How naturally he handled power, and how restrained was his use of it; subtle, almost invisible. What havoc he could have achieved if he had chosen to inflame, rather than to soothe! How much Noldor glory was built upon the menial labour of their Sindar subjects - who were in their hearts good children of Thingol? No wonder he had said even their own realms existed by Sindar forbearance. Absolutely awesome! I love this description. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/10/2004 |
| What timing for that little piece of news. I should have seen it coming but I did not. Poor Celeborn and Galadriel. That was very tense. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 10/10/2004 |
| "You could have picked a better way than this to announce your intentions toward our sister." This interaction was priceless. Loved it! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 10/10/2004 |
| The angst in this chapter is incredible. Galadriel's reaction when Celeborn would not wipe away her tears or touch her so as not to push her right down to when she thought of how she was tainted and hesitated to to accept him...too perfect. This is so wonderfully done. I must rush to the next chapter. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 10/10/2004 |
| God this is great! Again, Galadriel's contemplation of everything that happened was so powerful. And then the image of Galadriel looking at a sleeping Celeborn just had me breathless. And when he woke up! I can't take time to write anymore. I want to get on to the next chapter. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 10/10/2004 |
| I am speechless over this one. Galadriel's reaction and the prejudices of the Noldor/Sindar are perfectly depicted. What a tense chapter. Poor Celeborn! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 10/10/2004 |
| Excellent! Boy, Luthien misspoke, didn't she? Galadriel's reaction was perfect. And I loved the way you handled Melian's questioning of Galadriel. | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 10/10/2004 |
| Now that is one heck of a family history for Celeborn. I admit I know little about his family save their names. Is their history in this chapter canon or did you create it? Either way, it is a powerful backdrop for Galadriel's romance with Celeborn. Author Reply: Elliska! What a phenominal thing to do - to leave me a review of each chapter. Thank you so much! It was lovely to get up this morning and find my inbox full of 16 reviews. A real treat :) Inglor asked me if I would put this on Open Scrolls, so I did, but I didn't expect it to generate such interest. It was worthwhile entirely to know that you read it and liked it. As far as Celeborn's family history goes, I'm afraid it's all made up by me. I wondered why Elmo, Galadhon and Galathil should be nothing more than names, and very obscure names, in the HoME volumes. Why hadn't they *done anything* during the First Age at all? Why had obscure nobody Oropher established a kingdom, on the grounds of being from Doriath, while Elu Thingol's own brother is never heard of again? The easiest explanation I could come up with was that they didn't do anything because they weren't there any more: They had been lost to Doriath before the histories of that time began. Then I just had to think up some way of removing them which didn't involve them all dying together in a hideous carting accident or something ;) So it was canon inspired, in a way - just a very negative way! Many thanks again for so many lovely reviews, Marnie :-) | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 10/10/2004 |
| Wow! That was an incredible chapter. I started out thinking how much I liked Galadriel's contemplation of the meaning of the new name and her comparison of Celeborn and Feanor and I thought I'd comment on that in the review. Well, I loved that but then I got to the end with the fishing description. Fantastic reaction/flashback for Galadriel. Really powerful. | |