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| The Acceptable Sacrifice by Larner | 13 Review(s) |
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| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 12/8/2005 |
| Oh, poor Aragorn. I am glad that I am not involved in the official judging of others. Nor have I been called for Jury Service, yet! I find such things equally incomprehensible. Self-control goes with self-respect ind integrity. Now I sound pompous! Thank you for putting it so much better. Aragorn is having to deal with so much , and most of it still impending, it is no wonder that he is moody! BTW Are you missing a word or is it just the way I am reading the sentence? interrupt him in such a withdrawal and he could be (?) to the point of being snappish. I have always loved your description of that picture. I went to the Millenium Dome in 2000 and there was a sculpture of a figure made out of, seemingly, random bars of steel. You could only see it if you stood in the right place to look. Very clever but I would much prefer it in living wood. As usual too much to comment on and I am, again, late for work. But the 'Tall Brother' bit and Frodo's dress was good. Comfort can go both ways, so can guilt. I always thought that it was sad that Aragorn never gets to see Frodo again when they part, (this side of death anway,) but your writing is bringing alive how much of a wrench it will be. Author Reply: First, the wording--you are right--it is clumsy, and I'll try to fix it today. Change the preposition, maybe. I've dealt with abusive parents for clients, students, and in my former foster children. It's never an easy situation to deal with, believe me. And have seen a few abusive marriages as well. Ugly situations. But this is all part of what Aragorn is going to have to deal with from now on, the ugliness as well as the pleasures of dealing with the vagaries of human nature. And to have this happen when he so wants to be joined in his own marriage, to deal with the horrors of the relationship he wants so when such go bad must be almost more than he can bear. He must want to shake the guy till his teeth rattle to point out that this is NOT how it's supposed to happen. I've seen a few of these double images as well as the purposeful hidden picture puzzles I've always loved from Highlights Magazine and other puzzle books, and somehow I could see Frodo doing such a picture. The sculpture you describe sounds fascinating! Wish I could have seen it. And Frodo is comfortable at the moment hanging between Aragorn's new world and his own, to the point he'll go back and forth between the two modes of dress, and admit he, too, sees Aragorn in a fraternal mode. And, yes, part of the tragedy is that when Frodo parts from Aragorn at the beginning of the old Greenway, it is the last time they see one another in the body. From then on it's brief moments of awareness neath the White Tree, maybe a dream or two, and a few rare moments of shared vision such as the butterflies in the glade. I'm so sorry they didn't have time to do more together; it must have made memories of these three months more treasured to both in the end. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 12/8/2005 |
| I'm sorry - things have been busy and I've missed a chapter or two. The picture of Arwen in the White Tree! I see that Frodo is rather more aware of what is making Aragorn rather crotchety than he might think. I wonder if the woman will take her husband back . . . She probably would if he demanded it now - too cowed to resist. After seven years? She might well have learned how much better life is without him. I'm glad there was another way into the Archives. Frodo would have been one deeply frustrated hobbit if he had known that all that information was there and he couldn't get to it! Poor Aragorn. His long wait won't last much longer. But I'm sure these last weeks seemed the longest of all. Author Reply: I suspect that Aragorn felt much like a woman in the last weeks of pregnancy, wondering if the long wait will EVER be over. At least the woman in pregnancy goes through only months of it, while Aragorn has been wanting this moment for sixty-eight years! Poor guy! Heh! And Frodo isn't yet aware of the implications of his foresight. I, too, am glad Frodo learned there was a second way into the archives, one which didn't cause so much stress. As for the abused wife, it's probable that within a few months she will so appreciate the freedom from fear she will feel she doesn't want to ever see the fool again; however, after seven years, if she didn't have the marriage dissolved, it's possible she'll remember what drew her to him to begin with and will try to see if she can find that dream in him again. You never know.... | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 12/7/2005 |
| So, Aragorn's beginning to pine for Arwen--one can hardly blame him, after how long he's already waited. And we got to see how Frodo came to draw the White Tree with Arwen caught in the branches. Considering how testy the idea of domestic abuse made Aragorn, it's a tribute to his self-discipline that his sentence on the abuser was not a good deal worse. Another excellent chapter. Author Reply: Yes, those last few weeks must have felt like torture to Aragorn, and am so glad we KNOW the end was in sight. But at times he must have been ready to bite folks' heads off! Everyone seems to appreciate how the drawing of the White Tree with Arwen's face in it was executed. Glad you appreciate it, too. And I agree about Aragorn's self-restraint--that must have taxed him a good deal to keep from ordering the man executed then and there. | |