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| Rhyselle's Library by Rhyselle | 146 Review(s) |
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| Virtuella | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 10/10/2009 |
| Powerful. I'll not spoil this with a wordy review. It's great. | |
| shyler | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/12/2009 |
| Who is Yavanna? I really like this story, by the way :) | |
| Thalanee | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/11/2009 |
| I loved that little story! and poor Legolas didn´t realize just who stood behind him... I wonder if Gimli ever told him. Probably not, he is very stubborn after all. I´m already looking forward to more. Greetings, Thalanee | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/8/2009 |
| That is quite a visitation, to find Yavanna herself greeting him! Lovely! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/8/2009 |
| That's lovely, and a unique way of highlighting just how much Gimli has grown... in perception, and also in the respect of the guardians of Arda. | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/8/2009 |
| ROFL! That was priceless Rhyselle, and poor Legolas is oblivious to her presence. I bet that's one little secret Gimli will take to the grave with him. He wouldn't want to upset the Elf after all. *grin* | |
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/7/2009 |
| This was delightful - I just love the greeting!!! Hooray for Yavanna! | |
| Celeritas | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 3/7/2009 |
| Nice twist on the "talking tree" prompt! My reaction was literally "OMGYAVANNA!!!" once she mentioned her spouse--and I found it fascinating and wholly marvellous that she would decide to show herself to such an outsider as Gimli. | |
| Celeritas | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 3/7/2009 |
| The imagery in that last sentence was sheer poetry! | |
| Fiondil | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 3/6/2009 |
| A beautifully written piece, Rhyselle. Manwë's role is often misunderstood by many fanfic writers and readers of the Silmarillion. Here is an exerpt from Tolkien's essay "Ósanwë-kenta: Enquiry into Communication of Thought" [Vinyar Tengwar 39/28-29]: 'If we speak last of the "folly" of Manwë and the weakness and unwariness of the Valar, let us beware how we judge.... Manwë had the authority to rule and to order the world, so far as he could, for the well-being of the Eruhíni; but if Melkor would repent and return to the allegiance of Eru, he must be given his freedom again. He could not be enslaved, or denied his part. The office of the Elder King was to retain all his subjects in the allegiance of Eru, or to bring them back to it, and in that allegiance to leave them free. Therefore not until the last, and not then except by the express command of Eru and by His power, was Melkor thrown utterly down and deprived for ever of all power to do or to undo.... The weakest and most imprudent of all the actions of Manwë, as it seems to many, was the release of Melkor from captivity. From this came the greatest loss and harm: the death of the Trees, and the exile and the anguish of the Noldor. Yet through this suffering there came also, as maybe in no other way could it have come, the victory of the Elder Days: the downfall of Angband and the last overthrow of Melkor. Who then can say with assurance that if Melkor had been held in bond less evil would have followed? Even in his diminishment the power of Melkor is beyond our calculation. Yet some ruinous outburst of his despair is not the worst that might have befallen. The release was according to the promise of Manwë. If Manwë had broken this promise for his own purposes, even though still intending "good", he would have taken a step upon the paths of Melkor. That is a perilous step. In that hour and act he would have ceased to be the vice-gerent of the One, becoming but a king who takes advantage over a rival whom he has conquered by force. Would we then have the sorrows that indeed befell; or would we have the Elder King lose his honour, and so pass, maybe, to a world rent between two proud lords striving for the throne? Of this we may be sure, we children of small strength: any one of the Valar might have taken the paths of Melkor and become like him: one was enough.' | |