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| Endurance by Bodkin | 14 Review(s) |
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| MaidenofValinor | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/21/2005 |
| Beautiful, as always. Your writing style is so beautiful. Your language just flows. It is a pleasure to read your work. I enjoy every second of it. Author Reply: Thank you very much, you make me feel very good! Nerdanel has been bothering me for a while - she is yet another of the female characters who seem to get rather a raw deal. I enjoyed writing this. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/21/2005 |
| Thank you for not using the mother-names, nicknames, whatever, of Feanor's sons; it's hard enough to remember the names from the Silmarillion. I'd like you to continue this tale. I always felt terribly sorry for Nerdanel; who was righteous and was deserted by all her children and their over-proud father, and has now lost most of them to death. I hope that Maglor can return to the Blessed Lands someday; and that Celebrimbor at least will be released from the Halls of Mandos. A good story; you capture Nerdanel's strength and sorrow very well. What are "yeni"? Author Reply: I have had to make a table with all their alternative names listed. And even then I can't remember them easily. I decided that it's all translation anyway - and I would rather remember which was which. Nerdanel is called Wise - and yet she was left not only without her husband and sons, but also with the dreadful feeling of guilt and responsibility that comes with being the wife and mother of those who cannot but have been seen as monsters. I want Maglor to go home. I can't even remember where I put it - might have been Earendil's Tale - but he is serving his own self-inflicted penance of aiding all those who need it in Arda and he will achieve his own peace in time, when he will feel able to turn towards the West. And Celebrimbor - there is no reason why he should not return. Curufin is not my favourite son of Feanor - but as he is Celebrimbor's father, I thought his wife might have somewhat warmer feelings towards him. Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. An 'ennin' is a period of 144 years. 'Yeni' is the plural of ennin. So 100 yeni is 14,400 years. Probably around five ages, if 3000ish years make an age. It is a useful time period to employ with elves who are around for so long! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/21/2005 |
| Another well shown example of how grief becomes selfish and begins to feed off itself. It is hard to imagine what Feanor and his sons would face, were they returned to life in Aman. Perhaps if all they had hurt and slain had returned before them, then forgiveness could be offered and life begun again. Nerdanel is a tragic character - wise enough to step away from someone she loves who is on the path to destruction, but left to grieve as long as the world exists over the consequences. Very sad. Author Reply: It can be very difficult to break away from grief - and Nerdanel's must have been compounded by its sheer immensity. (I am reminded of McDuff's line in Macbeth - one of my favourites - 'What? All my pretty chickens and their dam?') Even the passage of huge amounts of time is unlikely to be enough to make Feanor and his sons welcome, I would have thought. And yet - surely eventual return would be something that they would be expected to confront as part of their learning to deal with their own errors? I do think Nerdanel got a rough deal. But she does have to move beyond her sorrow - if she sees it as part of helping her sons heal, maybe she will be able to do it. She is a sad character. I found myself wondering if having had a daughter or two would have been good for Feanor - and decided that it probably would. Also concluding that seven sons was probably about four too many - if they had been individuals rather than a netball team, each might have had more chance of expressing reasonable doubt to Feanor and getting him to be more balanced. Maybe. | |
| Elflingimp | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/21/2005 |
| That was so very good Please could we have more it cannot end there! Author Reply: Thank you. I am glad you liked it. It will probably go further - although I will have to read up more about it all! I have decided that I am a sucker for all the female characters who have been left behind by all their warrior relations! | |