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| An Unexpected Meeting by Bodkin | 67 Review(s) |
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| Elena Tiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/24/2004 |
| I have found info about Amroth and Nimrodel in Unfinished Tales and about the line of Dol Amroth Princes in Peoples of Middle-earth (HoME 12). Send me your email address (to my penname above at hotmail dot com) and I'll email the info to you. Anything to keep your muse happy! - Barbara Author Reply: Have done so. Thank you very much for your help. The history is adding an interesting level of complication, because unexpected people / happenings insist on making their presence felt. I think Galadriel and Celeborn are insisting on a cameo in Lorien. But they haven't quite decided if they are Amroth's parents or not. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/24/2004 |
| What a lovely story! A reflected moment in time, catching glints of light from many points in the past. Very nicely done, indeed. Author Reply: Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I've been looking at it for a while, thinking about the back-story and deciding whether or not to make it part of the story - I'm rather nervous, because of the potential for big mistakes with the history of it, but it's insisting on being written. I hope you continue to enjoy it. | |
| Bejai | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/23/2004 |
| Oh, wonderful, Bodkin! What an absolutely fresh, unexplored canon-based story! I don't think I've ever seen anyone write about the elven blood of Dol Amroth. I did a little bit of research on the topic to get the history I needed for DF and the Amroth story, so am just thrilled to see this! Bravo! Author Reply: I just hope I get the history right! There is so much potential for error - especially since Tolkien changed his mind. After all, who is Amroth's father? Because it makes quite a difference. I hope the rest of it lives up to expectation. ('fresh, unexplored canon-based story' ?? I didn't think it was possible!) Thank you for reading. | |
| Elena Tiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/23/2004 |
| This is lovely, Bodkin! I echo Daw's perfect word: magical! And I encourage you to continue. Do you have the original canon source(s) (sorry, can't remember offhand whether it's Unfinished Tales or HoME, or both)? If not, I can send you the relevant canon quotes via email... anything to encourage your muse to continue! - Barbara Author Reply: Goodness - thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I have started the next chapter - but I am finding that I need to know rather more about Amroth and Nimrodel than I thought I would! I would really appreciate the original sources - I have some of the books, but nowhere near all of them. I'm sure there will be mistakes (it's so much more difficult when using information that is less well known - and I'm never that certain of all the timelines), but I'd like to avoid anything too glaring. The muse is rather running with this at the moment - it's become quite obsessive! | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/23/2004 |
| That was magical! I like this working out of what it means for an elf to love a mortal and NOT have the choice of Luthien. I also like Imrahil's concern for his son. Author Reply: Thank you so much! It must have been painful on both sides - but living with an eternal division for a race that only had one love must have been so difficult - and yet the last thing that occurs to people when they fall in love. It must have been one of the things that really worried elders about contact with elves - you really wouldn't have wanted your child to love one (especially if she was their great x 20 ish grandmother.) The dangers of mortal / elf love cut both ways. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/23/2004 |
| Oh, what a pretty story! I always thought that the tale of elf-blood in the Dol Amroth line was not just a legend. And I remembered Mithrellas from Tolkien's work outside LOTR (don't think she and Imrazor were mentioned in the Appendices) Very well done. Author Reply: I must confess that my certainty comes courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Arda and a wonderfully informative piece of writing from Michael Martinez. I'm in the throes of extending this to the tale of Imrazor's and Mithrellas's story, as Mithrellas tells it to her descendants. Thank you for reading and reviewing. | |
| Rose Sared | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 10/23/2004 |
| This is just wonderful, thank you, I have no idea whether your progenitor is canon but she should be. Your writing is luminous, your description of the lady's grief and yet abiding affection, and the reson why elves and mortals cleave to each other so fiercly rings with truth. This story turns a light onto neglected canon. Well done Rose Author Reply: Mithrellas and Imrazor the Numenorean are indeed the progenitors of the line of Dol Amroth. This is (probably)(almost definitely) going on to tell the story of Mithrellas and Imrazor as she tells it to Imrahil and his children. I am glad you like it - this bit has been mostly written for a while, but I've only just moved on to the next bit. I suppose the whole thing is marginally more cheerful than Partings! I'm sure there must have been considerably more elf/mortal partnerships than are noted - and they must have come with plenty of pain attached. Thank you for reading. | |