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| To Labour and to Wait by Gwynnyd | 11 Review(s) |
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| Amy | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/10/2006 |
| Magnificent! Aragorn's declaration to Eomer is in my top five favorite moments. When the sky seems the darkest, stars shine the brightest. I figured that Aragorn felt that the time for hiding was past. He'd come a long way from Amon Hen, figuratively speaking as well as literally. This is lovely: Sixty-seven years -- from grandiose, youthful daydreams through many careful plans -- were come to this place and this reality. It was not how he had planned to return to Gondor, but he would come, now openly as Isildur's heir, wielding Anduril, Narsil reforged at last, to go to war with Sauron. He would be there when his people needed him, even though he was ragged and footsore and bringing only evil news: Gandalf's fall, Boromir's death, and the fate of the One Ring. He was Aragorn, and he did not need to be acknowledged king before he would do what he must do. Elves sensing what the wood wants to become, and the whole comb/hair thing is just too funny, as well as being a v. sweet picture of Legolas. Author Reply: It's hard to look at the events prior to the War of the Ring with a clear view. We know what happened, so it's easy to let that knowledge color how we think they ought to have behaved. But while they were living it, it must have seemed to Aragorn that the only way he could become king of Arnor and Gondor and have Arwen to wife was to rebuild Arnor and approach Gondor as Arvedui did, as a legitimate claimant with a kingdom behind him. We know he never did that for various reasons, but he must have wanted to. The comb thing is right out "The Secret Diaries", but I could not pass it up. I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Gwynnyd | |