News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| The Young Knights by Soledad | 42 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| Sarasrati | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/7/2006 |
| Never mind, I just realized I missed the explanation at the beginning! | |
| Sarasrati | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/7/2006 |
| I've heard a similar story to the Legend of the Lady Khorsheed... I wonder if you could tell us what the basis of the legend is? I cannot remember where I've read it elsewhere. As for the rest of the story, it's very interesting to get a look at other regions of Gondor and ordinary life, and fun to recognize elements from our own history in the writing. Good luck with the rest of the story! | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/6/2006 |
| What will happen to Madenn, do you know? Will she sirvive tha war? Author Reply: Yes, she will definitely survive; although she is not named in The Books. Nor is she Forlong's daughter there. We never learn much about her, actually. | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2006 |
| Great Lord of Lossarnah! You descripion is so rich and warm. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/4/2006 |
| Boromir and Faramir together are great. They share an understanding that even their cousins can't - and understanding of what it is to be the heirs of the de facto ruler of Gondor and the responsibility that goes with it. Not to mention the absence of their mother - although Morwen, it seems, is also motherless. (Mothers don't seem to have long life-expectancies. A fact of the period, true, but it also works as a literary device. However, becoming a mother seems to be worth avoiding if you are a literary character!) I love the town of Carvossonn! You make it sound truly impressive - and a bastion of pre-Numenorean culture. Excellent stuff. Author Reply: Thank you. The choice was made because I've been wanting to go and see Carcassonne so badly for years by now but haven't succeeded so far. So I spend lost of virtual time there. ;) Yes, women in medieval-like times often died in childbirth and infections related to childbirth. Plust the lack of hygiene destroyed their lungs. Sad, but true. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/4/2006 |
| I do like Boromir and Denethor together! There is an ease to their relationship that you don't often see with Denethor and - well - anybody! An understanding. It's a shame that Faramir and his father can't develop the same sort of connection, but perhaps they are too alike in some ways. And perhaps Faramir grows to be slightly less accepting of the restrictions laid on him. And now Boromir gets to go and party, too! | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/3/2006 |
| By the way, Denethor was no teenager when Thorongil turned up in Minath Tirith. I don't see how Ecthelion's preference predicated Denethor's dislike of Faramir; at least I don't see it in terms of family dynamics, rather like a religios conflict. Since Gandald didn't do any spectacular magic before his reincarnation in TT, I think he was rather seen as a wondering scholar, or saint or prophet. To Denethor, who clearly believes in "Gondor uber alles", he was dangerous because he called for further goals -- like some crusade; and Thorongil tried to channel Gandalf's influence in his time and Faramir gave his heart to wizard. I'm not sure I'm clear enough. And I love this story, and other stories of yours. Thank you! Author Reply: I never stated that Denethor was a teenager when Thorongil turned up in MT. I know he and Aragorn were about the same age (1 year apart). I'm glad you like the story, even though we disageree about Denethor in just about everything. But that's okay. Everyone has the good right to interpret the same events as they will. For my part, I'm all for the Stewards of Gondor and don't believe that mere pedigree would go before centuries of faithful service to the realm and its people. And it *was* Denethor's duty to defend Gondor by all means necessary - it was the only realm of Westernesse left and has been for quite some time. | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/3/2006 |
| Boromir here sound more mature that at forty in Rivendell. Poor thing. | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/3/2006 |
| "Not having Dunedan blood at all made people happier" -- I certainly believe that. Boromir is a sad, doomed character, and his little brother as well. They know all their life they are fighting somebody's else's war. Actually, Men of the Third Age have every right to distrust Elves for starting it all with Morgoth and not finishing on their own... Not that I don't like Dunedain or Elves, I do, but they should be sad, guilty and weighed down by old sorrows to be likable. Author Reply: Why should they? The mistakes their forefathers made (at least where the Dúnedain were concerned) lay millennia in the past. I don't think one should blame the late descendants for the mistakes of their ancestors. It wouldn't be just. And why would Boromir and Faramir be fighting somebody else's war? Gondor was their realm, their responsibility, and the return of the King just a mythical possibility for them. The Stewards have done well enough for 26 generations - better than the Kings ever had, IMO - they deserved all the credit they could get. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/3/2006 |
| I've been to Carcasonne, so I loved your description of Forlong's walled town. Faramir's determination to try the very difficult shot at the wooden falcon on the tower in the archery contest, despite his youth, seems very typical of the character; he is self-confident and would not shrink from competition. I can't wait to see the festivities through the eyes of Faramir and Boromir; this is shaping up to be an excellent tale. Author Reply: Thank you. I'll try to match your expectations. :)) | |