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| Avoidance by Stefania | 92 Review(s) |
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| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 4/6/2005 |
| Oooh; this is interesting. But who's thicker, Eowyn, telling her hubby of less than three years that she understood what it was like to love Aragorn, or Faramir for getting huffy about it? Never, ever tell a man something like that; men are delicate sensitive flowers when it comes to having to be First in their true love's eyes, and they get all prickly (mixing metaphors here) when there's a hint that True Love loved someone else first. Bring on Chapter Two! | |
| iona | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 4/6/2005 |
| A most promising start - keep up with the good work! Your beginning scenario seems very realistic considering how both Faramir and Éowyn were used to keeping their own counsel before they met. You combine bookverse and movieverse effortlessly. One correction only: Éowyn was twenty-four years old at the time of the War of the Ring (see LotR appendices). But considering that Rohan is based on Anglo-Saxon and Viking culture, I'd say most Rohirrim women might have married even before they turned twenty, so you need not change much. Author Reply: Hi Iona - Thanks for reviewing this so quickly and for your kind words. I hope that Avoidance continues to hold your interest. Regarding your comment on Eowyn's age, I'm wondering if I should put up an Author's Note on this. Eowyn's age in my story has given pause to some who have read "Avoidance" on Live Journal--including my excellent Beta reviewer, SMOR. Here is why my Eowyn is 33: I've tried to make all characters in Avoidance who were cast in the LOTR films abide by how they were depicted in the films. I portray Faramir as a moody (but not weepy!) guy with the large nose, ginger locks, and loud voice of David Wenham. In a planned chapter of "Avoidance", Faramir describes the (in)famous, movies-only suicide charge. Film Eowyn, of course, is Miranda Otto,age 33 when LOTR was filmed. When "Two Towers" opened, a number of book-savvy critics at first decried, "She looks and acts too old!" Abiding by film verse, my Eowyn is also 33. When I first read LOTR, I thought Eowyn saw herself as "an old maid" at 24. Imagine the issues Eowyn might have if she was Miranda Otto's 33! Some of her Rohirric contemporaries would already be grandmothers, while poor Eowyn was still a virgin. I thought this very topic would give Eowyn a new set of issues that would be fun to pursue in fanfic. | |