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| A Journey through Arda by Larner | 95 Review(s) |
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| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 5/6/2011 |
| Sad to face such devastation, but I also feel that survival means a new life in a new place will be forged and new delights will hopefully be found to replace the ones ones. Powerful little bit here! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Am so glad you enjoyed this one, Antane. But so it has always been in the wake of such destructive wars, and not all take well to having to rebuild from scratch. Thanks so! | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 5/2/2011 |
| Isildur made a tragic mistake indeed. I never gave thought to how his choice to keep the ring would grieve the Valar. But, how could it not? Author Reply: I so agree, Tari. Yes, that failure to have given up the Ring must have caused much pain to all who observed it. And the Valar themselves have yet to fully appreciate just how much power Sauron packed into that small golden trinket! Thanks so, and thanks for your patience in awaiting a response. I see the distractions of the time kept me from responding properly to a number of comments. | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 4/26/2011 |
| This chapter was the best yet. So totally awesome that it gave me goosebumps. I never considered that the souls of those lost in the Dead Marshes were trapped there. This was an amazing release of them. Author Reply: Man, I was certainly distracted during the last weeks of March, wasn't I? I have so many comments I never responded to! We don't know that those whose seemings haunted the pools of the Dead Marshes actually were trapped there, but it seemed very possible! And it was wonderful to imagine how, if this premise were true, Aragorn and Arwen's coming there on that first anniversary would have freed them from the land to follow Namo's call at last. Thanks so very much, and for the patience you've shown in awaiting responses! | |
| Mirach | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/8/2011 |
| I had to stop reading for a moment after this chapter, to cope witht he sadness and emotions it conveys. Chosing mortality is one thing, but watching someone you love doing that choice must be much harder, and watching it twice... Author Reply: I'm humbled and pleased to know that this moved you so emotionally, Mirach. Yes, how hard it must have been for Galadriel.... Thanks so, and thanks also for the patience you've exercised in awaiting a response to your comments. The end of March was a rather hectic period for me. | |
| Mirach | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/8/2011 |
| I had to stop reading after this chapter, to cope witht he sadness and emotions it conveys. Chosing mortality is one thing, but watching someone you love doing that choice must be much harder, and watching it twice... | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 4/4/2011 |
| LOL!!! Very nice! Aragorn should be glad about any distraction he can get. And the pages learn to be creative instead of stupidly following instructions ;-) Last but not least, Pippin has ensured that he won't be forgotten!!! Author Reply: Ah, but I doubt that anyone who met Pippin could ever truly forget him. And Aragorn and Arwen will need not to come to think of themselves too highly, of course. This was a good deal of fun to write! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 4/3/2011 |
| Sometimes people need a reminder of how brave Frodo really was. And not only that. He was still in Rivendell and he already knew that it might come to the point that he had to sacrifice himself. And still he was willing to bring the Ring to the fires! Glorfindel's reassurance and comfort must have given him new hope in a rough time. Author Reply: I grieve that I did not respond to this at the time--am not certain how I missed it! Yes, Frodo had his own courage, and he learned a good deal about reticence once he suffered from the Morgul wound, I suspect. And Glorfindel was one I suspect he truly needed reassurance from at the time. Thank you so very much, Andrea! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 4/3/2011 |
| Poor Oropher. A nice account of his imprisoning and then, so many years later, the freeing of all the imprisoned souls from the Dead Marshes. Author Reply: We don't know, of course, what happened the fëar of those who died here, but if they were caught within the battleground, how strong a release they must have known when Sauron was well gone and the Renewer King came with the Elessar on his breast to breathe new life into this beleagured land! Thanks so very much, Raksha--how distracted I was at the end of March, apparently! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/3/2011 |
| I really feel sorry for Elrond here. Galadriel may be almost all-knowing, but Elrond has had to watch those he loved most leave him; and is only trying to protect his beloved daughter. At least Elrond is not locking Arwen up in a treehouse! A fascinating symmetry here. Elrond, by sending Arwen to Lothlorien, practically guaranteed future romance between her and one of his mortal fosterlings - if she had stayed at Rivendell during all of Estel's time there, it is likely that she would have viewed him as a dear little brother, having known him from infancy through childhood and into his teens. Nicely done! Author Reply: I know, Raksha. By allowing Arwen to spend so much time with her grandparents he did make it possible to meet Aragorn only after he became a young adult, which strengthened the likelihood she would in the end find her heart stirred by him instead of accepting him as a younger sibling as the twins must have done. Thanks so! | |
| Ellynn | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 4/1/2011 |
| I love how you describe their reactions. Author Reply: How horrible it must have been, watching that one fateful decision. I doubt that the Valar themselves appreciated at the time, however, just how much power had been granted to that Ring, and how swiftly and fully It could take Its victims. Thanks so, Ellynn! | |