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Bear Me Away!  by Armariel 44 Review(s)
BodkinReviewed Chapter: 9 on 10/8/2005
Well - Galendur seems more fun than Seragon, who seems a little stodgy. And Frodo's wishes for his new house, and his unspoken desires, seem to be on the way to being granted!

Gandalf and Riannor. Good. Bilbo continuing to age. Not so good. Frodo's problems don't go away just because he's settled in the west, do they!

Author Reply: Oh yes, Seragon is a bit on the stuffy side, but with such lively company, maybe he'll lighten up. And Frodo seems to have forgotten that Este's spouse is the one who can make dreams come true for those who love, work, believe and pray. Yet the cloud of mortality does loom even in paradise!


BodkinReviewed Chapter: 8 on 10/6/2005
“I don’t doubt he can ride a horse,” Bilbo said. “But it hardly makes him husband material.”

That is one deep hobbit!

I just love the idea of squiggly hair becoming a fashion statement among all the young elves. And their mothers cursing the name of hobbits - and of Galendur. Who might find himself with a career in Hair.

The mosaic sounds most beautiful - but the sound of a despairing cry, the howl of someone who has just lost all he had striven so long and hard to gain, the sound of utter defeat gives a lovely edge to its creation. And old Olorin, huh? That could be an interesting relationship!

Lyrien is a poppet. I like the hobbit doll. Which could become another fashion.

Author Reply: For a bachelor, Bilbo's got the right idea, I would say! Acting like a daddy. Guess looking after Frodo taught him a few things about parenting. The elf-mothers should be thankful hobbits never went in for body piercing! Galendur might become quite a successful hairdresser, at that. Doubt that Tilwen would go for it, however! I imagine hobbit dolls will become the rage as well.

Wonder if I'm the first non-slash writer who ever provided Gandalf with a mate? If anyone else has, I've yet to see it!

Thanks so much for reviewing--I greatly value your comments!

hugs
Armariel~~~{~@




LarnerReviewed Chapter: 8 on 10/5/2005
You matchmaker, you! The Maia and the former dark elf! Love the mosaic.

Author Reply: Just can't resist tying a few knots, can we! ;);) The mosaic was inspired by some paintings I've seen, although I didn't try to reproduce them exactly. Perhaps there will be another soon, well let's hope so.

Thanks so much for r&r!

xoxx
Armariel~~~{~@

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 7 on 10/4/2005
OK. Maybe Galendur isn't completely in love with himself. Maybe he's just a bit of a Hooray Henry. A bit of an oaf with a heart of gold. But I still hope Tilwen makes him suffer - because it will help him grow as an elf! Or a half-elf. (Mind you, Tilwen doesn't seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer either. Oh well, maybe like is calling to like.)

Author Reply: Hooray Henry? lol haven't heard that one before! I think of him as this big wacky kid who was accustomed to being a big fish in a small pond, and is coming to find he is quite a little fish in a huge lake now and getting a bit of a wake-up call, if that isn't mixing metaphors a little extravagantly. Guess he'll find that heroes come in more than one size!

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 7 on 10/3/2005
I have to laugh at the elven hero with a stupid English aristocrat's vocabulary and attitude, but nice to see there is a person in there and not just all facade.

Author Reply: Welllll, it was a daring step, but I thought maybe if Tolkien et al. could get away with cockney-ish trolls and orcs, maybe I could get by with it...heheh I think I conceived of him as a sort of Peter Pan/eternal football hero/Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler type who, if he lived in the early 20th century, would have been a dashing aviator or rodeo rider. I dare say Tilwen will have her hands full with him, but at least she won't be bored!:D

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/3/2005
How very sad it is. I do not think I could live with having my memory erased.

Author Reply: Doubt I could either...unless I had a vast store of memories and guilt too horrible for life to be bearable, in which case I suppose it could be the lesser evil. Well, maybe!

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/2/2005
I don't know whether losing the bad would be worth losing your children. It's rather like various human ailments - I suppose once you have no memory it doesn't matter too much, but when you know that you are losing something, but you are not entirely sure what, it must be heart-rending. Poor Riannor.

But at least Frodo is recovering. And the elfling - Lyrien - is sweet. And she seems to think that Galendur isn't too bad, so maybe he has good points. Even if, at the moment, it seems to be the provision of sweets for little ellyth. I wonder what she is planning on doing with Frodo's interestingly squiggly hair.



Author Reply: Glue it to her feet? ummmmm well maybe not...heheh

Guess I've been thinking of Riannor somewhat in terms of a concentration-camp survivor, although not merely an innocent victim. I suppose she is faced with a choice between heaven and hell, the one necessitating entire forgetfulness, the other being the persistance of memory.

Thanks for reviewing, once more!

cheers
Armariel~~~{~@

FarawynReviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/30/2005
Armariel -- just to let you know, I won't be able to go online for a couple of weeks at the most, we're moving. I'm just about to disconnect our family computer right now, so see ya in about a week!

xoxo
Farawyn

Author Reply: Hellooooo!!! Been more than a week! How was the move?

xoxx
Armariel~~~{~@

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/27/2005
Okayyyyyy--sounds like Prince Charming in Shrek 2. She could do MUCH better! Poor Frodo!

Can understand the pottery being an outlet for Riannor's memories.

Author Reply: Horror!! he DOES!!! Could he be an ancestor? *heheh*

Saw a strange-looking vase once that had several necks, and it had a rather disturbing effect somehow. There was something of The Uncanny about it. Funny how these things find their way into our stories, what?

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 4 on 9/27/2005
Telling forth can be a way of releasing it all. Hope the flowers help Riannor to heal as well.

And am proud he will not give Sauron the victory over him.

Author Reply: Long ago I read on a message board where somebody was talking about a story she read, in which Sam came to the Blessed Realm only to find that Frodo didn't remember him because in order to heal him completely his memory had to be erased. I never saw the story, but the idea stuck in my head. I thought, well, no, I don't think so, but why not give him the choice of it, at least?

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