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| Grains of Wheat by Eruanna | 29 Review(s) |
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| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 1/29/2006 |
| Flawless. I've attempted this style from time to time myself and *it is NOT easy*! I don't think I have ever succeeded. You did it magnificently, and I can easily imagine this being declaimed by a Rohirric skald at a feast in Meduseld, honoring the kinsman of their beloved Holdwine! I think that JRRT himself would appreciate the effort put into this. Author Reply: *blushes furiously* Well, I can tell you that it *was* quite difficult. But the compound words are such fun! ;) I just love the Old English way of expressing things, and that style of giving metaphorical names to things. How I would love to be able to sit in Meduseld and hear the real lay! Thank you very much for your kind comment! I'm flattered that you enjoyed this. Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 5/30/2005 |
| Good use of Elf-voice here, and of rhyme and meter and imagery without being too predictable. To be truthful, however, I like your poems and stories about hobbits best *g* Just partial to the little folk, I suppose...lol b&c, Armariel~~~{~@ Author Reply: Thank you for being truthful, dear! I always appreciate that. And to be honest, I love my hobbits best, too. ;) The Elves are high and beautiful and utterly beyond our reach, but sometimes I feel the need to reach toward that unreachable beauty anyway. And yet, most times when I do, I find it is Frodo who is the living embodiment of that beauty. So it always comes back to hobbits, in the end. Again, thanks for the kind and constructive comments! And I'll try to have something hobbity for you soon. ;) Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Brenda G. | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 5/30/2005 |
| This is lovely, haunting, memorable. I felt very elvish while reading it! Author Reply: Wow, thank you! :) I'm glad I could get something of the Elvish feeling across, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. :) Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Nerdanel | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 5/30/2005 |
| This is a lovely poem. The rhyme and meter are mostly consistent, and it flows very well. It is a perfect song, one that they would sing to the one who made the stars. Nice Job. It is good poetry. Author Reply: Thanks so much for the kind review! I did struggle a bit with meter, as it's something I've really had to teach myself, and I'm still learning a lot. But I'm glad you think it came out well. :) Again, thanks for taking the time to review! Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/4/2005 |
| Ohhhhh very dark and sad indeed......sounds almost like something I might write in my darker moods...when joy seems a candle that burns with a lovely soft light but can be whisked out with the merest breath, leaving everything dark and cold without a way to light it again....and if it IS lit again, is it ever really the same? Well, maybe.....could be.... Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning...(I forget which scripture that is) blessings & cheer Armariel~~~{~@ Author Reply: Oh dear. I hope I didn't depress you terribly! Actually, I wasn't even in a dark mood when I wrote this. If you want to know the real secret, we had to write poems for English class a while back about Ophelia, so I wrote this and claimed it was about her. ;) I just changed the first line to 'the White Lady of Denmark'. But I had Eowyn in mind the whole time. I'm dreadfully sneaky like that. :D Your image of the candle is astonishingly beautiful: it sounds almost like a poem itself. And no, I don't guess it would ever be the same if it were lit again: as Frodo might say, not the same, but something more, and greater. :) Well, I looked up that scripture, because it was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember it. ;) It's Psalm 30:5, and the whole psalm is wonderfully beautiful. "Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness" And of course that is exactly what happened for Eowyn: her candle was lit again, and she found that it was not the same, but greater and even more blessed. Hum, perhaps I should write a sequel. ;) Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Saoirse | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 5/2/2005 |
| O... my goodness! How lovely! 'Then wondering I took his hand and marveled not to find that there were only four fingers with my own five entwined.' I just *love* poetry, and this was simply beautiful. Just wonderful job with this here. Author Reply: I almost can't claim credit for this one, because it literally came in a flash of inspiration and demanded to be written down. ;) I'm so glad you enjoyed this, and thank you for such a kind review! Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 5/1/2005 |
| Beautiful...very William Blake, could be a Song of Innocence maybe? :D See there, your muse isn't gone...my best friend just the other day said hers was nearly gone too, and today she showed me some beautiful art she made, she quite outdid herself.....guess there's a lesson of some sort there? I'm waiting for mine to reappear also *g* blessings & cheer Armariel~~~{~@ ~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@~~~{~@ Author Reply: Thank you dear! :) I've discovered lately that my muse has a bad habit of popping up when I really need to be working on papers and studying for final exams. *sigh* I certainly hope yours reappears soon! ;) Blessings, Eruanna | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 5/1/2005 |
| I'm all weepy! This is absolutely beautiful. I especially love this... Deep love it is that takes the weight that others fear to bear, and lights anew the darkened sky and makes all sorrows fair. Author Reply: Oh, don't cry! Though I confess, I got a little weepy myself just typing it. ;) Our dear Frodo does have a way of talking about himself without even realizing it. Here, he thinks he's just talking about the virtue of sacrificial love in general, and he is. But Elanor knows now that she's talking with someone who's made himself the very embodiment of that love. I'm so glad you liked this. I'm always honored by any comment from you. :) Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Mum's the Word | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 5/1/2005 |
| Too lovely for words! Blessings, Mum Author Reply: *blush* Thank you dear! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Blessings, Eruanna | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/26/2005 |
| What a reply from Frodo. Author Reply: Thanks, I think. ;) I hope you don't think it's too dark! But he has just been whipped and beaten, after all. And I wanted to really show that he gave up everything willingly, and what that sacrifice was for: for lands long lost, and friends he thinks he will never see again, and all the beauty of the world he has left behind, symbolized in Lórien of the golden tree... Blessings, Eruanna | |