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| Elf, Interrupted: Book One: Glorfindel Redux by Fiondil | 13 Review(s) |
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| DJ | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 1/27/2007 |
| Hi, Fiondil, This is a wonderful story, and I am enjoying it tremendously. I love how you've developed your characters, not just Glorfindel (who is a charming big elfling), but also Gandalf/Olorin, Arafinwe, Finrod, Ingwe, and especially Lord Namo. Somehow I think this is the way Namo (and the other Valar) would be--not just the stern and forbidding Doomsman, but loving, kind, and understanding, although sometimes it's tough love. I love your depiction of the Halls of Mandos, where the fear learn to feel safe, and then to play with others again. You've provided a perfect continuation with your gardens within the halls where each reborn learns to live within a hoar again. Then, in Lorien, you have them learn to live and interact with others and recover their memories. Your whole conception of the progression the reborn go through just makes perfect sense to me. Watching Glorfindel, Finrod, and Sador grow up again is by turns happy and fun, frustrating, and sad. I think Eru's idea is for the once born (love that term!) to welcome the reborn, and to help them through the growth process. What a disappointment the current attitude of most of the once born must be. I hope Arafinwe's three "elflings" will begin to change that. Glorfindel in Vanyamar looks to be interesting. I wonder why he is not allowed on Taniquetil yet? And what questions does he want to ask Manwe? Namo himself showing up to tell Glorfindel not to climb Taniquetil suggests to me that Glorfindel was planning to do just that, and with a determination that any lesser messenger might have been ignored. I wonder if even Namo's warning will keep him off the top of the mountain? I confess I'm a terribly selfish reader, and seldom log in to leave a review. It's only when I've read so much by an author that I've enjoyed, or a story that I reread over and over that my conscience kicks me to say something. I've reread this story about five times now, and anxiously await new chapters (Thank you for updating so regularly!), so I had to tell you it's wonderful. DJ BTW, I do know that many of the "Tolkien" words I used should have accents, etc. I don't use diacriticals in e-mails or on anything I post on the web, since I work on a Mac and diacriticals aren't mapped consistantly from font to font, let alone cross-platform. Rather than have stuff garbled up with strange characters (that are not the characters they are supposed to be), I just stick to plain text. Author Reply: Hi DJ, Thanks for reviewing. I'm like you. I don't always review every chapter of a story I'm reading or every story immediately. Sometimes I need to step away from the story or reread it a couple of times before I can come up with a coherent review, so don't worry about it. I appreciate you taking the time to review it now. And you don't need to apologize for not using accent marks. Some people do, some people don't. Even my Dell computer won't let me map all the accents I like to use when working outside of WordPerfect, so I don't always use them consistently either. I'm glad you've enjoyed this story so much that you've read it five times now LOL! I have always 'rated' a story by how often I'm willing to reread it, so I'm flattered that you have reread it that often waiting for the next update. While the main focus of this story is of course Glorfindel, the other characters, canon or OC, are just too interesting (for me) not to develop them and give them their own stories to tell. It makes for a more interesting tale anyway. I tried to show how being Reborn couldn't possibly be as simple as people would like to make it out to be. There has to be some sort of an adjustment period, both on a physical and on an emotional level. The physical adjustments would come the easiest; the emotional adjustments would take some time, and if that's one thing elves have plenty of, is time, so why shouldn't it take a hundred years for a Reborn to mature? What's that to an elf? So thanks for reviewing and I look forward to perhaps receiving another review from you when the story is complete. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 1/27/2007 |
| Scary flashback. And as for Turgon not allowing his followers to choose to return .... Well - that was not kindly done. And I hope Glorfindel pays attention to the instruction not to climb Taniquetl! He seemed to be having a bit of an adolescent reaction to the instruction. Glorfindel should have an interesting time with the Vanyar. Author Reply: Turgon has a lot to answer for and maybe one day I might write about his judgment. I think Glorfndel is beginning to wonder if all this atttention by the Valar is a good thing or not. And like most adolescents, he probably is sick and tired of everyone telling him what not to do. I think that as you read future chapters about Glorfindel's time with the Vanyar, 'interesting' will not be the adjective that comes immediately to mind.... | |
| MithLuin | Reviewed Chapter: 33 on 1/24/2007 |
| I was so happy to see your update! I just started on your story, and already there are new chapters :) Poor Glorfindel, he is having a rough time of it. In these chapters, he sounds so much like...a teenager. Complete with roiling, incomprehensible emotions. The Valar do seem to meddle quite a bit, though! It's good Ingwë is so used to dealing with them. Visits from Namo are a bit...disconcerting. Author Reply: In many ways, emotionally, at least, Glorfindel is a teenager with all the angst that goes with it. Visits from any of the Valar, I think, would be a bit disconcerting, so having someone like Ingwë around helps. | |