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| Leaving home; Coming Home by Mirkwoodmaiden | 60 Review(s) |
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| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/3/2020 |
| They could be river stones and I would love them because of who they belonged to and that you honor me with their gifting. What a lovely (and loving) scene. And oh, such a wonderful meeting between Eomer and Lothiriel! You have a nice way of bringing our beloved ladies to life, and allowing us to see them through the eyes of others. Author Reply: Shirebound! Yeah! Glad you like it! I really wanted to give Faramir and Eowyn a private scene before going to the hall. And this was early on in their relationship so Faramir would still have been somewhat tentative and unsure. I wanted to show their love and trust growing. As to Eomer and Lothiriel I really thought about the various ways they could meet and this is how it happened as I wrote it. I wanted to show that she was a kindred spirit to Arwen and Eowyn as they tend to appear in my later stories together as three spirited women! Thanks for taking the time to write Hope you and yours are safe and well. MM | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/3/2020 |
| “That is enough of that! You go off and do something kingly—” Arwen said playfully I love that so much! Author Reply: Shirebound! I have to say that I was laughing as I was writing that line!! :-) Thanks for writing! Stay safe! MM | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2020 |
| She filled his heart with love and hope. I'd say that's the perfect description for a life partner. "Does she know you snore?" Ah, Boromir. You'll never be completely lost so long as someone who loves you remembers you. Ah. I, too have had such conversations with a sibling, working through difficult moments in our shared experience... I absolutely adore seeing Beregond so light-hearted, joyful and bantering. He sounds true to Pippin's first acquaintance with him, his curiosity about other people and lands, his ready laughter. (‘At the table small men may do the greater deeds, we say.') Ah, so six months after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, the hobbits are already well on their way home, somewhere between "in sight of the Mountains of Moria" and Rivendell. It suddenly strikes me as a good thing that Elessar has made Faramir prince of Ithilien. He can make a new home, new memories, happier memories there, and not be haunted by the ghosts of the past. Author Reply: Lindelea! Hello! So glad that you enjoy Beregond in the story! Yeah! When writing the story I had to figure out where everyone about six month after March 25 was because I had to figure out who could be at Faramir and Eowyn's wedding. Eomer and Lothiriel get married in 1421 SR so they had to get married before then because Eomer and Lothiriel meet at the wedding. And the hobbits are off to scour the Shire! True I think it is good idea that Faramir and Eowyn will be starting a new life in Ithilien. He does love Minas Tirith but there are many painful memories as well. Thank you so much for writing! Stay safe! :-) MM | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2020 |
| What a moving and wonderful 'homecoming' for Faramir. Your dialogue is delightful. And a standard for Ithilien, such a great idea! I never thought of that. Author Reply: Shirebound! Hello! So glad you liked it! I thought about it and wondered what would Faramir think about his coming home and this resulted as I was typing! :-) He is still doubtful for about his worth at this point. But his confidence does grow as I have written other stories. Thank you for the compliment about the dialogue I'm really glad it comes across well. I aim to give each character his/ her own voice. I hope that comes across. I thought that Dol Amroth has its swan standard (I think I've that somewhere!) so I thought that Ithilien would as well! Thank you for taking the time to write! Hope you and yours are well! MM | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/25/2020 |
| "So are you." Been there. Done that. And Eomer's brotherly teasing. Yes, very true to life. An adventure in a cave! (And from what I know of caves, they were very lucky, indeed, to find their way out again. Yikes.) Ooo, I like Eowyn as a child here! She reminds me so much of Goldilocks Gamgee, who marries hobbit Faramir... I wonder if they'll become friends. Do you have a story that describes how she became a shieldmaiden? One of my beta readers and I were discussing shieldmaidens, and the history of shieldmaidens, and precedent, just the other day, and speculating that she could not be the ONLY one in all of Rohan. Could she? Unless people just threw up their hands with her and said, "Fine! You can be a shieldmaiden! Since you seem to have no interest in embroidery, unless you're stitching up a horse's injured knee... and you insist on learning how to swing a sword... Be that way!" "Are we there yet?" and "We're not lost; I'm just not sure where we are." LOL! Very true to life. Aww, and that's love right there, chipping out that stone for her, putting nicks in his knife, while she sleeps. The scene with their mother is bittersweet, and I love that she had the stones made into jewelry. Such a loving, understanding, forward-looking thing (when she knew that she, herself, had not much future left to look forward to) to do for her little daughter. Author Reply: Lindelea! Hello! So glad you liked it. It just flowed as I was writing it. On Caves: Yea, generally speaking they are dangerous places but I just didn't see that this time! I don't have a story about Eowyn as a shieldmaiden but maybe I should. I think they are a thing, Eowyn says in Two Towers film, "Women in this land learn long ago that those who did not wield swords could still die upon them!" So Hmmmm..... Yup! Eomer is the kind of brother who would damage his precious knife for his sister. The book hints at that kind of relationship (how Eomer is the one who is the only one who can reach Eowyn after she killed the Witch King and is in the grips of the Black Shadow) but really I have to say it is Karl Urban's wonderful portrayal that really does drive the way I write Eomer. Just that scene on the Fields of Pelannor when he finds Eowyn down and bloodied. It breaks my heart every time. Also when in the ROTK EE when Aragorn is tending Eowyn and Eomer is sitting by her side looking like a hurt puppy. About the scene with their Mum I really want to paint a tender relationship. Eomer at 12 senses what is happening and the reality of it mutes his response. Eowyn at 7 doesn't notice that quite yet and it really allows a real relationship to continue, at least for a little bit. I have small plans for one piece of jewelry and that is all I will say! :-) | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/23/2020 |
| What a sweet and gentle memory for both Eomer and Eowyn to share. I'm sure those "jewels" will continue to be lovingly passed down through the generations. Author Reply: Shirebound! So glad you liked it! I really enjoyed writing it. I think the "jewels" will indeed be past down through generations as well. Thanks for taking the time to write. Hope you are all well and safe! MM | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/23/2020 |
| p.s. I hope this will make you laugh. I've just realized that Faramir (the Man) and Ferdibrand are kindred spirits in their shared experience of conducting guerilla warfare against fearsome invaders, using bows because they work so well from cover, and Eowyn and Ferdibrand are kindred spirits in their love for all that is equine and open spaces. At least, I am seeing them that way. Imagine such a friendship! LOL Author Reply: Lindelea! LOL! *smiles* So very true! The three of them meeting would be fun!! All like spirits! Hope all is well with you and yours! We are well. touch wood. MM | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/23/2020 |
| “Close your mouth, something might fly in.” And Eomer. Happy. (sigh) They all deserve happiness. Oh gosh, thank you for that! You actually made me laugh, and that was after leaving a review on Ellynn's sobering tale and feeling deeply sad. I don't have time to read any further at the moment, but I certainly look forward to returning. Author Reply: Lindelea! So glad I could be of service! My job is to make people happy! That includes LOTR characters and my readers! I love Ellynn's writing but I just can't take too much reality in my fantasy right now! Glad I could make your day a little brighter! MM | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/18/2020 |
| I do love happily-ever-afters! And these two certainly deserve it. :) Author Reply: Shirebound! Yep! Glad you like it! I am really having so much fun writing about people being happy. It is all I seem to want to write these days! Thank you so much for writing. Hope you are keeping well. MM | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/17/2020 |
| Aww. Eomer the mother hen. The horse figures! I collected horses in my younger years. My horses and my books were my treasures. Aww. Eomer speaking his heart, and his sister’s wise and empathetic answer... Loved this! (p.s. I have always respected Faramir-of-the-book... “Not even if I found it lying by the wayside” or something to that effect. I’m glad Eomer approves. And now I would love to see a conversation between him and Eomer about this. Or anything else, really. What fun!) Author Reply: Lindelea! I took my cues from both the book and the film. How in the book he speaks about his distress at not noticing Eowyn's distress and depression and that scene on the battlefield on the Pelennor Fields when Eomer finds Eowyn. That scene just rips my heart out. His emotions and inability at first to express them lead to his impression of a mother hen! :-) Eomer strikes me as a tough guy, manly man but does have a heart as you seen in "A Light in Midwinter." He has deep emotions that are not always expressed. I admit that Karl Urban's wonderful portrayal does really color my view of Eomer. I had many friends who had the horse statues and the books I know how much they loved them. And also what else would Rohirrim children play with. This is just the first chapter of another many chaptered story that I have started to write so a conversation between the two might just happen! Thanks for writing and encouraging! MM | |