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| Spectrums by Eärillë | 52 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 30 on 1/21/2013 |
| A terrible thought, that one of his potential enemies might once have been one he'd loved dearly in the beginning times. Just as well that there is no time for more thought once they reach their destination. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 1/21/2013 |
| Yes, Tuor's priorities do appear to need a bit of setting in order! Lovely series! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 1/21/2013 |
| And for what has his life been spared? Perhaps the waybread is not the blessing he at first thinks it. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 1/21/2013 |
| What a pleasant occupation, to be carving roses of marble for Amarie! I'd have loved to find Finderato caught in the midst of such doings, I think. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 1/21/2013 |
| Oh, but for a dragon, what better playthings are there? He has indeed come into his own today! And his ending will come only from one bearing something even more shiny than what he plays with today. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/21/2013 |
| Unfortunately it is likely he will not see them again on this side of the Sundering Sea. No wonder he wished to immortalize them in his drawings. Author Reply: He might still see his grandson, if Voronwe survived the Third Kinslaying in the Havens of Sirion, but it would not be the same. People who survive shipwrecks are never the same... In a way, Rawe would indeed never see his family that side of the Sundering Sea, alas. Drawings would be just a pale imitation of a life they could have had, but drawings were all that he had. War is a terrible thing, indeed. Rey | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 1/21/2013 |
| Aha! The little brother-cousin only wishes to be included, after all! So many he loves, so many whose plans he wishes to be part of, so many he will be robbed of one day.... Author Reply: Yes, in hindsight this piece would feel chilling, given that the pesky little boy died so young and before his feet touched firm land after the hellish journey through the Grinding Ice too. But here I hoped to show how he might have been, and how his death -- by implication -- might affect his kin afterwards. He was always present, annoying but present and still playful. People like him are hard to forget about, and dearly missed when/if departed. Rey | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 1/21/2013 |
| And what a terrible idea he has of the nature of "glory!" So great a waste! Author Reply: I think all the killings he had done twisted him somehow; things that might be evil to other people would make sense or even be glorious to him and his brothers -- and father, too. Sad, really; and yes, it's a great waste of potential that should have been worked for good, too. Rey | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 1/21/2013 |
| A most terrible race indeed he's found himself caught in. At least he is not left behind when his family is drawn westward. Alas that he should have come home to find still another terrible kinslaying! Feanor's oath takes another series of terrible sacrifices to its potency and its obsession. Author Reply: I tried to capture the devestation of the First Kinslaying in just a drabble... It wasn't easy at all, no less because of the subject itself. Yes, it's terrible that the whole family must die in one fell swoop like that; but sometimes survivor's guilt would take its own toll and it might be better, in the Elf's point of view, to die alongside his family rather than mourn them most bitterly -- lesser of two evilssoort of thing. The Teleri were said to wish nothing to do with the remaining Noldor in Aman after the Kinslaying, and I always wonder why, so I tried to capture random moments of it in short stories. All those quite unnecessary deaths just for an oath and three jewels... Rey | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 1/21/2013 |
| Gimli must have been one of the few of his kind to overcome that innate terror, and for the sake of such a deep friendship! Well done, Rey! Author Reply: Love can overcome things thought impossible -- be it platonic or romantic. And yes, I fear Gimli was one of the very, very few Dwarves willing to be near the sea, let alone sail in it. This titbit always interested me: that children of Aule fear Ulmo and his people so. I'm glad you enjoyed it too. Rey | |