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| Home for Now by daw the minstrel | 34 Review(s) |
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| ciaralin | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/6/2006 |
| Hi Daw, I've been reading your stories for a while now, and, though I've always meant to, I've never gotten around to reviewing them. I apologize for that, because they are all so beautiful that I'm inspired to continue my own writing. This one, as always, was lovely. Author Reply: Thanks, ciaralin. I always like hearing from people who have been reading. It's like a having a secret friend. :-) Glad you liked this. Writing is fun all on its own. Being able to get lost in your own story is the best thing there is. | |
| pipinheart | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/6/2006 |
Very nice... It is not safe for Celuwen to go back to their hom in the woods, but she still wants to. Eilian would try and persuade her, but something came up he wouldn't have to. Kinda sad he has to leave all those he loves behind especially his daughter, for once we see him as a Father going off to war.... Love it... Author Reply: Glad you liked it, pipinheart. It is sad to think about these warriors riding into such danger and leaving their families behind. | |
| moonshine4488 | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| Oh no, I can already feel the tears coming. That was so sad to read. Excelent, but sad. I do hope there is another chapter..or two...or three...I would just love to read more. I like how you played out Eilian taking Loriel back to his childhood, and then at the end he is waving goodbye to his family to go fight. It was perfect. Author Reply: Thanks, Moonshine. It really is too bad Eilian's little family couldn't go on living happily in the woods. Poor Loriel doesn't understand at all. This was just a one-shot for French Pony's birthday but I may have to write about Loriel again. She's fun. | |
| Laureleaf | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| Good, as usual! I love how you are able to show the love, stress, fear, relief, and devotion within the family. Author Reply: Thanks, Laureleaf. I started off intending to write something "cute" and then got carried away into angst. Fortunately, people seem to like that. :-) | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| I think that, for once, Eilian was right, and Celuwen finally had to concede defeat, although her reaction is quite understandable. It is great to read of thsese characters we know so well that you can dispense with many explanations and offer a lot of insight and deeper meaning with just one sentence. You have to be proud of that. They are canon to us! ;-)I had forgotten who Nimloth was, but her "Hmp" suddenly put her back into place! ;-) I loved that. I loved this too,How did children manage to smell so sweet? A sad and difficult moment for all them, yet it is true that having children around force adults to manage pain and anguish differently, and children as lovely as Floweface can make their adars say things like "why don't you tell your parents to come and live in the stronghold with us!" I could not believe my eyes! ;-) Very amusing, despite the situation. That baby is going to be a Great Danger!. Author Reply: I'm glad you felt that way reading about them because I read that way in writing. I know them so well by now (even Nimloth), that it's relatively easy. Flower Face will indeed be a Great Danger. Eilian always gives his heart completely when he gives it at all, and this little girl is vulnerable and apt to dance off into danger. Even (especially?) if the danger is only a boyfriend, Eilian is not going to find this easy. | |
| yanic | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| "I am neither your horse nor a warrior under your command." I just love that, the wild Eilian trying to control someone else. I bet he understands what Thranduil went through more and more. Such cute moments when Eilian and Loriel explored his past. I think it's always interesting to see what ways a child is similar to their parents and different too. An awesome story yet again! I keep haunting this site to see when you update and it just makes my day when you do. Thanks! Author Reply: Eilian has probably fought with Celuwen before. These two grew up together and I'll bet there were plenty of occasions when they snarled at one another. But Loriel is another matter entirely. I see her as having her father's daring and her mother's stubborness, and Eilian is going to be at his wits' end on more than one occasion. So yeah, you're right. He may develop some sympathy for his father. Glad you liked it, yanic. | |
| Noor | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| Daw, i just wanted to say after your last comment about canon and non canon characters. You have done a brilliant job with the young Legolas stories and I don't think you have anything to worry about with the older Legolas stories. They are all a pleasure to read. However I assume it is much more fun and you can be creative with your OCS. You have written so lovingly about your OCS that we all care about them so thank you! I remember you saying you wished to modify "A question of Duty" with Loriel as an additional character. I think everyone would enjoy reading a modified version. Thanks again! Noor Author Reply: Thanks, Noor. Legolas has always been hard for me to write, so I appreciate the reassurance. | |
| NaughtyNettie | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| I remember going to my grandparent's house when I was young and playing with my dad's old toys. I always thought they were more exciting than the toys I had at home even though they were old and made of wood. Eilian's passing his toys onto Loriel is sweet and will mean a lot to her in the future. The story reminds me of all the news casts and newspaper pictures of our military leaving for Iraq and hugging their families as they prepared to depart. It is very poignant for our time. Thank you for sharing and, as always, I look forward to more from you. Author Reply: I too thought of soldiers leaving for Iraq when I was writing this. Eilian is sacrificing a lot here, so his father-in-law needs to learn to appreciate him more. I don't think I ever saw my parents' old toys, but I did see a couple of books that had belonged to my father as a kid. They were big and had hand drawn pictures, like comics. I've never seen anything like them since. I remember suddenly imagining him as a kid in a way I hadn't been able to do before. Thanks for the review, NN. | |
| mithwen | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/5/2006 |
| When I first started reading fan-fiction I never bothered to read OC-stories. Legolas’s family was also difficult. Every writer had their own image of how many brothers or sisters he had etc… I usually proffered to pretend he didn’t have any siblings, that at least several writers had in common. The first of your stories I read was `the Novice´, and for some reason I fell in love with Eilian right away. And have been loving him ever since, I might add ;-) And Loriel is so adorable! "The chest is probably full of spiders and snakes and mice by now." Her eyes grew huge. "Hurry!" She’s so like Eilian, *grin* Sweet and sad story. Author Reply: All of us who write about young Legolas have to make most of it up because there's so little canon. For me, the OCs have turned out to be easier to write about than Legolas is. I think it's because he's a canon character and I feel the need to handle him with reverence. I don't make him flawed in the way my OCs all are. And it's the combinations of Eilian's flaws and virtues that make him fun, I think. I actually dreamed about him not long ago. Loriel has her father's daring and her mother's stubborness. Eilian and Celuwen had better watch out! Thanks for the review, Mithwen. | |
| Alice | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/4/2006 |
| First things first, happy birthday French Pony! Daw this was so sad. It's awful to think what life must have been like for the Mirkwood elves in the years leading up to the War of the Ring. Poor Eilian. Poor Loriel. She's so young and to go from living in the woods happy and safe to living in a stronghold while her father rides off into danger. It's just awful. I am getting entirely too worked up over events that are not actually real. Which is what happens when I read your stories. While I miss reading your stories on a regular basis, I really hope that your original fiction is going well because I cannot wait to hold your first published book in my hands and start reading it. Anyways, good job and good luck on the original fiction. Author Reply: Poor Loriel indeed. She's too young to understand exactly what's happening, and I imagine they don't talk about some things in front of her anyway, but kids are sensitive to atmosphere, and her ada is leaving. That has to hurt. She'll adjust to the move, but Eilian will be away a lot now. I calculate she'll be a very young adult during the Battle under the Trees. The original fic is fun to write and frustrating to try to get published. I'm learning a lot about both writing and the world of agents, publishers, booksellers, etc. and some of the stuff I'm learning, I didn't want to know! Thanks for the review, Alice. | |