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| Sweet Woodbine by Bodkin | 18 Review(s) |
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| Ellie | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/20/2006 |
| Another fine beginning to another fine tale. You do an excellent job exploring what Valinor must be like with all of the influx of avari and whatnot. I don't read many Leggy fics, but I'm drawn to your writing anyway and I love the way you write him. Nice job! Can't wait for an update! Author Reply: Do you know, I never, never, never thought I would write anything romantic (even marginally) with Legolas. It's just too distressing for too many people. But this is going backwards - he's already been married for - h'mm - fifty years or so and got two kids, so he has to have courted Elerrina sometime! And Taryatur isn't going to have made it easy for them. Thank you. I'm glad you want more - because more is coming! | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| Ooo, nice. I like how you've captured the frictions of a settled land suddenly receiving waves of immigrants and the problems and prejudice that grows out of that. Legolas is remarkably wise to understand just how much proof the Noldor need to see before they'll do anything. The description of Galadriel's eyes as "star-kissed" made me giggle, but only because I associate that phrase with an American brand of canned tunafish. Of course, it is appropriate for a story set in the unfortunately named city of Tirion-upon-Túna. . . Author Reply: I just cannot see the Blessed Realm as a place of unrelieved bliss. Not when you consider the nature of those who are living there - and waves of immigrants combined with those emerging from Namo's care, all arriving into the lands of those who have been living there reproducing over ages ... it's going to have its problems! I love the tuna reference. I shall be trying not to think of Galadriel's eyes being fishy from now on. I don't think it goes with her image! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| LOL - nice to see Legolas fall for the one elleth whose family would dislike him from the start! I can see courting Elerrina is going be challenging - good for Legolas to find a challenge. Author Reply: They're both going to fight it, I think. For a long time! Legolas needs a personal challenge - he really is quite alone here in the Blessed Realm. Good thing he's finding a purpose to keep him going. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| The path of true love isn't running very smooth for Legolas and Elerrina, is it. Someone should tell Taryatur the story of Beren and Luthien and what trouble Thingol made for himself with his suspicions and demands. But it's sad that Legolas seems not only lonely in Valinor, but isolated. Author Reply: Legolas and Elerrina are wary enough of getting involved - there are a lot of family complications in any relationship between them. Although I think if he's not careful, Taryatur is more likely to push them together than keep them apart. Legolas has not long since lost Gimli at the beginning. I reckon he would have focused on him over those first years - that and recovering from Aragorn and Arwen's deaths and his own sea-longing. He's just beginning to emerge from that and is at a bit of a loose end. But the Valar will find work for idle hands - and he has quite a task ahead of him. The Wood Elves would have scattered, I think. They're not the most hierarchical of elves - and I can't think of any real leaders round whom they might gather. Not until now, anyway! | |
| Jay of Lasgalen | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| So we see how Legolas began courting Elerrina! It must have taken a very long time, for it wasn't until after E2 arrived that there was a serious connection between them. I'd like to see the incident that brought them together - something about rescuing her little brother from a river, and getting injured?? I like Camentur here, and I always liked him in your previous tale. Those young Noldor deserve to be taught some hard lessons! Jay Author Reply: I don't think either Legolas or Elerrina settled to the idea of their attraction very easily. They could both see far too many things against any match between them. I think they might have circled cautiously for a good long time. And time in the Blessed Realm isn't exactly the same as it is east of the sea. And nephew. Camentur's son. He isn't born yet. Camentur is a good sort. Taryatur is, too, really. Deep down. I think Finarfin has a good community service programme going with hard labour for those who cannot behave themselves suitably. Although it occurred to me that some of these might well be part of / reason for some of the later hostility that showed in Far Horizons. (Do you know the continuity here is impossible! Too many stories with absolutely no sequence to them. Thank goodness I'm pretty vague at times!) | |
| Lyn | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| Ah...at last...a reasonably plausible Legolas romance. This is close to my own feeling that any romance Legolas was destined to have would be found in the Blessed Isles. Well written indeed. Author Reply: Thank you. I'm going at this backwards - in a lot of my other stories, Legolas is a proud father. It's taken me a long time to settle to the idea of writing his passage to matrimony! | |
| Lianna | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| This is going to be interesting! Poor Legolas. He so desperately needs something to do -- but I doubt that acting as the Wood-Elves' ambassador to the rest of Valinor is a task he would have chosen. Still, sometimes one doesn't have a choice. I suppose, though, that when the day comes when Thranduil steps off a ship, Legolas will be more than happy to go find other things to do. I had no idea that Legolas had spent so long in pursuit of Elerrina. He is a very determined elf! Author Reply: I think Legolas and Elerrina spent a long time denying any interest in each other! And then had a lot of other problems on their hands before they managed to settle their families. I was trying to think who else would be around to do the job that faces Legolas - and I couldn't really think of anyone who would be there to head the unification of the Wood Elves. I think he is stuck with the job! Fortunately, he has support from Elrond and Galadriel. I think he'll need it. But he's working on the assumption that he will merely be doing the job until Thranduil turns up - which might help. Thank you - I hope it will continue to be interesting. | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2006 |
| Oh good. This is an interesting time for Legolas. Between politics and romance, he's going to be kept busy, especially with Galadriel looking over one shoulder and Taryatur looking over the other. I enjoyed the description of how hard the wood elves were to rule. Author Reply: Legolas is undoubtedly going to find himself with a huge task on his hands. Still - he wouldn't want to get bored! And if wood elves are hard to rule in their home woods, it must be impossible with them scattered across the Blessed Realm. It's not going to be an easy romance either, what with one thing and another. And another. I hope it turns out interesting... There's a lot of time to pass before they eventually find their way west. | |