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| Arwen's Heart by Bodkin | 22 Review(s) |
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| Tigger | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/28/2006 |
| What a beautiful end to such a wonderful well written story. Hannon le for this lovely take on Arwen and her choice. Author Reply: Thank you - I am glad you liked the end. I am too soft not to want to make clear that, in time, Elrond and his daughter - and Estel - were reunited. I shall miss writing this story! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/27/2006 |
| Ah--the great joy beyond the End of Days! Delight to be received by those she will receive.... Thank you again, Bodkin! Author Reply: The whole concept of timelessness made my head spin - I could empathise with Arwen! I could not resist the desire to reunite those who had missed each other and yet still carried on to do what they must. Thank you for reading! | |
| Adamas | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/27/2006 |
| I just spend the better part of 4 hours reading this story. It was so beautiful and moving. You have written the story behind the LotR. I am truly moved, thank you for your insight and talent. I loved your characterization of Arwen and her brothers. Actually all for your characters. I was choked up and in tears at the ending. The many goodbyes that Arwen endured were beautiful and touching. CS Lewis said of Tolkiens ending that it "was the saddest happy-endings." You have beautiful illustrated his point. Thank you. Author Reply: I started this because I felt that Arwen got a bit of a raw deal most of the time and I wanted to show her as strong and wise and loving. The last part was hard to do - so many of Tolkien's endings are the beginnings of other stories, which is what makes his world such a delight. I could not resist the final reunion beyond the end of days - but even that is the beginning of something else. Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed this enough to read it all through in one go! | |
| The Karenator | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| I've fallen behind again, but I was certainly pleased to see the Epilogue up today. Lovely ending. And just what I would hope would happen at the end of all things. I don't know what Tolkien intended for the elves at the end, but I love the idea that all the children of Eru were reunited. This has been a delightful story. I've enjoyed it very much. You are planning an Epilogue of the Epilogue, aren't you? :>) Karen Author Reply: The end of all things - but the beginning of more? I'm now wondering what they would all do in their timeless paradise where all are reunited. Epilogue of the Epilogue? Not if I can help it! But you never know - this is all so addictive. It's taken me longer to finish than any other story yet - I can't believe it's been going for about eight months. That's nearly a pregnancy! I couldn't resist a happy reunion. I wanted Arwen and Estel to find each other, but I also - very much - wanted Elrond to find those he has lost over his life. Thank you, Karen. I'm glad you enjoyed it. | |
| Redheredh | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| Oh, so lovely an ending. *happy heartfelt sigh* Thank you for this ending. Author Reply: It was probably predictable. I'm a sucker for happy endings - and Beyond the Bounds of Time probably presages this. But still! Elrond and Arwen are reunited and the different life spans of men and elves no longer matters - and has also brought Estel back into the heart of his elven family. Thank you. I am glad you liked it. | |
| Amy | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| Beautiful, just beautiful! *weeps that "Arwen's Heart" is over* Collapsing time in the afterlife is a brilliant idea. Tolkien's timelines are so unwieldy that it's v. liberating to be free of all that! Author Reply: You're quite right! It must seem remarkably liberating not to have to worry about time - especially for elves, whose immortality could, I suspect, weigh very heavily over the millennia. I do find that thinking about a complete absence of time makes your head spin after a bit - it's such a very strange concept. I'm sorry this story is over. It's taken longer to finish than any other story I've written so far. (Although it won't hold the record for long. I must finish Ripe for Change.) I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thank you! | |
| elliska | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| This is a wonderful ending--I am crying, but not from sadness. I love seeing them all together again in a place without time so no one has to wait. That is perfect. This was a great story, Bodkin. I'll miss it. Author Reply: I am such a sucker for a happy ending - I couldn't bring myself to abandon the final reunion beyond the circles of the world. And thinking about a place without time really makes your head spin after a while, but they would all be together. The intervening period, though, might still have seemed a long time to her elven kin. Thank you, Elliska! I shall miss this story, too. It's been going on since last April - that's the longest I've spent on a story yet. | |
| Jay of Lasgalen | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| I've always liked the concept that time flows differently in other worlds. Your idea here, that time does not exist at all, is even better. Here, Arwen can meet those long dead/not dead/still unborn and greet them all. Nice ending. Jay Author Reply: Thank you, Jay. In fact, the Gift of Men becomes a true gift if you pass into a timeless existence where all are reunited - and you end up feeling sorry for elves, whose immortality has, at times, seemed such a good thing. But they have to endure until the end of Arda - which could be dozens of long ages. How would they feel when they passed beyond the circles of the world to meet all those bright, refreshed, Secondborn? How would the races perception of each other alter? Would the Secondborn seem favoured above the Firstborn? Or wouldn't it matter now? But I was so happy to reunite Arwen with her naneth and adar. Not, of course, to mention the twins! | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| This has been such a beautiful and thought provoking story,thank you much.It is wonderful to know they will be happy now for all of eternity. Author Reply: Thank you. It made me much happier to picture them reuniting in a place where all divisions ceased to matter. I'm glad you liked it - and this is a bunch of people who deserved to be happy. Although then you start to think - what would they do in a tranquil, timeless eternity? | |
| bejai | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/25/2006 |
| Ok, well, you just blew my mind there. In the best way possible. Of course in a place where there is no time, there isn't sequential chronology! Makes perfect sense ... other than trying to get my mind around it ;) This is really how I see it working for all of us at the end of OUR time. Heaven, indeed. What a lovely way to end, with everyone together at the end of time. I hoped that was what you'd do. It would be too unbearably tragic otherwise. You've done such a lovely job with this story, exploring partings, and death, and love, and reunion. Just ... wow. Bravo, Bodkin. *Stands and claps* Author Reply: I tried thinking about moving from time to no-time - and it made my brain hurt! It is a very odd concept. But if there is no time, then surely people wouldn't arrive chronologically but would all just be there - and it is a very reassuring thought. Thank you, Bejai. I couldn't resist reuniting everyone after so much angst along the way - and, if ever there was a bunch of people who deserved to be rewarded... I enjoyed writing this - it started as a reaction to wimpy Arwen, but grew. As is the way of these things! | |