Grey Wonderer
· 15 January 2004
· Chapter 99999: Odds and Ends
LOL I saw this after I had reviewed the last chapter:
Belecthor’s tale will be the next story published, for those of you who wanted more details on the topic of the last conversation between Hirilian and Morwen.
I can't believe that I wasted some good begging and pleading when I was getting what I wanted anyway! LOL I am looking forward to this one a great deal. Belecthor has been such a wonderful brother and soldier! I just know he will make a wonderful husband and father. At least, that is what I am in hopes for with his character. I will now wait patiently, or try to, for this up-coming tale from one of my favorite writers.
Author's reply
Glad you found that. :) But I'm sure you still have pleanty of begging and pleading stored up to last you awhile. That's the kind of thing that almost never runs out, it would seem. ;)
Yes, Belecthor will be a wonderful husband and father, as will be told soon.
Thank you for the honor of being one of your favorite authors. It's an honor unlooked for and yet very welcome. :)
I go to post . . .
Grey Wonderer
· 15 January 2004
· Chapter 9999: Family
I love this family together! I wanted to drop by for a long visit and play with the children and hear all about Belecthor's new love. Are he and his lady going to get their own story still? (does begging and pleading help any? LOL)
My favorite images from this chapter are the three year old playing in the coal bucket and the very wet Eradan with his clean children at his side!
Loved all of it as usual.
Author's reply
I find it just a little bothersome that even *I* can't stop by for a long visit. :)
With a three year old to model Aratamir after, he wasn't too hard to write. ;) You tell them to do one thing, they do another, and their younger siblings follow. It's exasperating!
Glad you like it.
dr_seuss_is_cool
· 14 January 2004
· Chapter 99999: Odds and Ends
hello chigger...i would love to say that i could review all the chapters that i missed right now
but i can't...i'm so very terribly sorry
i will try my very hardest to review them this weekend
someone in my family just died so i have been having a very tough time catching up with schoolwork and quizzes and other stuff
i'm so sorry...i've read each chapter but i haven't found the time to review them
i feel so bad and i would tell u what i thought of them now...but i don't want to take my time in telling you have awesome this story was
thank you and i'm so sorry
Author's reply
Don't apologize! There was no way you could have changed things, and I would much rather you get caught up on schoolwork and quizzes than reviewing my story. First things first, you know. Work before pleasure and God before work.
May God bless the soul of your deceased relative. I will keep them and your family in my prayers.
EomerofEastfold
· 14 January 2004
· Chapter 99999: Odds and Ends
Do you keep a timeline to keep track of your character's ages like I do? I swear, if I didn't have that little piece of paper with me all the time I'd never remember. :)
I need to re-do mine though. I have all of Eogar's future kids on there, but I didn't stop to think about Taurion's, Galpeng's, Arathel's, or Cynric's children, not to mention Eogar's possible one or two grandchildren. But, I've got to find names for them first. I wonder if I am a contender for a "Most OC's" award. :)
Well, it seems Morwen is happy. Should be interesting to see what kind of girl Belecthor has found, or got himself into trouble with. :)
Author's reply
I usually have a peice of paper and a pencil handy to do a load of math and such, but Coriel also has a timeline which has my principle characters, such as Narion, his wife and his kids, on it, but all of Narion's grandkids' dates and such take a lot of remembering and redoing and such (not to mention the forgetting and the revisions of faulty chapters). I really need to get all of this written down in a more accessible place than my mind. :)
Yes, Morwen is very happy. She's a lot like me in that she's more the diciplinarian than her husband, or even her sister. I swear, if my little brother is spoiled anymore, he's going to be a terror the rest of his life! AGH!
As for Belecthor, I was very tired of writing romances with a battle in the middle. Therefore, the next story is not like that. While the romance is in there (what's the point of the story if it's not?) it's taking more of a back seat than in previous stories. At least, I'm trying. I'll have to leave it up to my readers to let me know whether or not I have succeeded. But she's very nice. :)
EomerofEastfold
· 14 January 2004
· Chapter 999: Things Change
You know, you're little ones make me want to turn them into cameos in "Children of the Commoner," but the only problem is that we've both chosen to develop Faramir's house, meaning that to have our characters together would be like crossing dimensions. Obviously, Rochmir and his family couldn't exist if Narion and his family did, and visa versa. We could consider Eodreng and Ceorl, but they can't count because Eowyn married Boromir son of Faramir in my universe, and Ceorl married Hirilian in yours. Most frustrating....
I'm really just playing, though I did have a brief thought of Ostoher. But, I think he would be in his 50's or so at the time CoTC is at right now.
I'm thinking too much for a wednesday morning. Anyway, great story, and I hope to see more some time in the future.
Author's reply
Isn't that aggravating? I've thought of that, and have come across the very same barriers. If only Tolkien had said . . . But he didn't, and we're all stuck with our own story. :)
What's wrong with Wednesday morning? Admittedly, I hate thinking *any* morning, because I'm still asleep until after lunch. :)
Anyway, more is here.
Grey Wonderer
· 13 January 2004
· Chapter 999: Things Change
just perfect, Chigger! Now if you can just keep your computer from eating the next one we can see what you have planned for Belecthor. I can't wait.
Author's reply
Belecthor is still waiting. I seem to be stuck on four years and three kids; because Morwen waited four years after Hirilian married to finally marry Eradan, and now Belecthor is going to wait four years after Morwen marries to finally meet and fall in love with and marry his wife. Both Hirilian and Morwen will only have three kids, but I decided Belecthor will have four, just for a change of pace. :)
But there's still more to come with Morwen! One more epilogue, and then the Author's Notes. You want to meet Morwen's kids, don't you?
EomerofEastfold
· 13 January 2004
· Chapter 13: Night Watch
Well, at least she got him. I should fancy myself to be like Eradan, in that I would want nothing more on a cold night than to have a woman I loved with me. *Sigh* Now you have me in romantic melancholy. :)
Belecthor needs a lady now. Get him one. :)
Author's reply
Sorry. Hope you emerge alright. :) And yes, I would say that Eradan thoroughly enjoyed that. ;) Morwen will problably continue to keep him company on the night watch after they're married, higher-ups permitting. At least until she's pregnant with their first kid.
As for Belecthor, I'm working on him, but it will be several years yet before he'll listen to me. :) And the computer eating her didn't help either. ;P
Grey Wonderer
· 13 January 2004
· Chapter 13: Night Watch
I love the way that both of the men in this chapter protect the honor of Morwen. She is truly a very lucky young lady to have two men value her this much. How about another plot bunnie? It came to me as I was reading this chapter so it is your fault that I thought of this. LOL
How about a story with Belecthor maybe as a young teenager of say 18 protecting one or both of his sisters from, well, from something! LOL Not a complete idea, but would love to see you write about the three of them in some sort of adventure as teenagers or even earlier.
I seem to think way too much when I read your stories! Don't hit me too hard as I bleed easily.
Author's reply
Yes, I often envy my characters, and Morwen is no exception. While my older brother is nice, I don't think he would go to such extremes to get me a husband. :)
The only thing that I find aggrivating about your plot bunnies, is that fact that they're such obvious ideas, and yet I never think of them first. ;) Yes, I think I can write such a story, but Belecthor and then Narion first as requested.
Don't worry. I won't hit you, unless you do something perfectly awful to the hobbits in your next update. :)
It is so like a man not to notice when a woman is in love! Belecthor just now catching on is something that I find very true-to-life. He adores his sister, yet has no clue about all that she feels. Now that he does know, it sounds as if he approves and plans to help things along a bit. I hope so!
Author's reply
Aren't men lovably aggrivating? Belecthor actually reminds me a lot of my Dad. Very, very nice, but rather clueless about small things (such as our fanfiction craze; but we just won't go into that). :)
Yes, Belecthor intends to help as much as he possibly can.
As for our computer (as spoken of in the reviews of Thinking of You) it hasn't started eating schoolwork or anything like that, mostly because almost all of my work is handwritten. But it IS an old computer and my disk is just as old, so the two together make a mess. (It takes two to tango. :) ) And it wasn't the horse story ;), it was Belecthor's tale.
Amaniel
· 10 January 2004
· Chapter 11: Home Again
Ok, the scimitar thing was NOT my idea. :P He just needed an injury that was a little different. I mean, come one, how many people would've thought of bruised ribs? It was a good idea, right! :P Glad to be of assistance!
Author's reply
Fine, so it was actually Coriel who said I should use a scimitar, but you admit that you're the one that bruised him! :D
EomerofEastfold
· 10 January 2004
· Chapter 12: Minas Tirith
Yes, well, if Belecthor is going to try and make her happy, than he had better do it quickly. :)
Author's reply
Give him time, he's working on it. He has successfully lengthened their stay to a few weeks rather than a few days and his plans have been set in motion.
Grey Wonderer
· 9 January 2004
· Chapter 11: Home Again
"His face is also marred. Somebody gave him a rather large scrape on the cheekbone. He will have a shallow groove there for the rest of his life."
I think this character just gets better all the time! I am with his wife on this, bet the scar is a very interesting touch! Just hope it wasn't too painful.
I am afraid that Morwen is going to have to go after her young man as he doesn't think he is good enough for her. Am I getting close? That brother of hers could escort her as it is partly his fault that she is in this situation. He was the one that suggested she give up the others that she wasn't serious about. He owes her. LOL
Author's reply
Not *too* painful, but still enough to hurt quite a bit. And then Celvandil pouring alcohol all over it during dinner didn't help much, either. :)
As Belecthor will mention in my next story, he's rather dense and doesn't even realize she likes Eradan, much less loves him. As far as he's concerned, Eradan was just a stranger who got himself hurt and needed their care. Now he's gone and life can go on as before. He's never been in love before, so we'll have to forgive him his ignorance. :)
EomerofEastfold
· 9 January 2004
· Chapter 11: Home Again
So how long is it going to be before Eradan comes to his senses and comes back to Morwen?
Author's reply
*SPOILERS* He doesn't come back. And I'll just leave you to worry over that. ;)
Grey Wonderer
· 8 January 2004
· Chapter 10: Farewell
I feel so sorry for both of them! Neither one wants to be parted from the other and yet things stand in their way. You better straighten this one out, Chigger. I think you quiet lass has finally found her true love and he just rode away!
Author's reply
Yes, poor girl, he's gone. But do you really think I'm going to leave it at that? Oh, no, we have several more chapters still to go! ;)
Surely you haven't forgotten poor Narion and Belecthor still out there somewhere? They've got to come home before the story can end, don't they? Of course they do. :)
EomerofEastfold
· 8 January 2004
· Chapter 10: Farewell
Lol, she should go after him! But, I know that's not like her character. I hope he does come back. I mean, he already almost died once. It would be a shame if he lost the second time around.
Author's reply
What do you expect? He's a Man! :D
No, she's not like Hirilian, who would have saddled her own horse, and not his, so that she could waylay him along he way. Morwen's not as forceful as her sister. :)
I'm with you, I hope he's careful. How foolish can a person get? To nearly get yourself killed, meet a perfectly wonderful woman who would love to spend the rest of her life with you, and then to leave her in favor of nearly getting yourself killed again. O_o
Grey Wonderer
· 6 January 2004
· Chapter 9: To War
[Narion led his men valiantly, straight into the middle of the enemy forces, his sword flashing in the sunlight, his battle cry ringing through the air.]
My hero! I just love this guy!
[Narion led his men valiantly, straight into the middle of the enemy forces, his sword flashing in the sunlight, his battle cry ringing through the air.]
What an image! I can see this when I read it.
[Narion was offering encouragement and advice, finding those that needed care for their wounds and directing the healers to them.]
Everyone's hero!
[Narion fell to the ground, an arrow protruding from his shoulder, his stallion galloping back to camp.]
Easy now, too close for comfort!
Well, don't just sit there, get Narion to safty and medical attention. He needs you! I will be waiting on the next chapter.
Author's reply
For now, Narion is under the care of Ostoher while I journey back to Ithilien. :) Don't worry, he's a tough little booger with a long happy life ahead of him.
I'm glad you enjoyed the battle. I've always thought of Narion as the leader, warrior type, and so it was only natural that he be the one to charge the very mouth of the beast, even though his father told him not to. ;)
EomerofEastfold
· 5 January 2004
· Chapter 9: To War
Well, even though I've read it already, good job. :) But, you aren't going to do anyting mean to Ostoher, are you? I've grown to like the guy.
Author's reply
He just seems like a very likable guy, because he's kind of grown on me too. :) No, I plan on using him in my next story, so I can't do anything *too* bad to him.
Grey Wonderer
· 3 January 2004
· Chapter 8: Tears and Frustration
I don't know about the men reading this, but I felt as if you had been to war when I read it. Are you sure you aren't a soldier on leave writing to pass the time before the next conflict?
I respectfully request that you don't kill Narion in battle as I would be heart-broken. I love the image of Morwen as a bare-foot child seeing him off to battle. He still remains one of my favorites among your characters. Also hope Belecthor isn't getting too sure of himself.
Also love this : ["Do not be ashamed of your tears, my Lady," he said gently. "For the tears of a Lady bring a slight amount of joy to the hearts of men, even as they bring pain. No man wishes to go to war thinking the women of his country do not worry for him, or grieve for him should he die.]
This is my favorite part in the entire story so far. It is like a line from a John Wayne movie! Something the hero says to comfort those left behind! Perfect! Keep it up as it is only getting better.
Author's reply
I'm pretty sure. I'm just a 14 year old girl sitting at home on her computer with a stuffy nose and a bad cough. :)
*Spoilers* I don't plan on killing Narion anytime in the near future. Now . . . it will have to happen sometime, but he'll have reached a ripe old age before I kill him. After all, I like him, too, you know. ;)
I'm sure Morwen was a cute little barefooted kid. I can see her running around like that. I love the little sound of tiny bare feet hitting hard stone floor. :)
And Belecthor knows enough to be careful. He's just a man trying to act tough in front of the ladies. ;) He'll be careful.
When I read that line, I usually don't have all the pauses in the right places for John Wayne to be talking. :) I guess it would have to be something more like this.
"Don't be . . . ashamed o' crying, ma'am," he drawled. "Men LIKE to see a Lady cry . . . when they leave for war. Makes 'em happy . . ., even when it . . . makes 'em sad. They don't like to leave . . . thinkin' . . . the girls don't miss 'em . . . or want 'em t' live." :D
Thanks a lot. Since EomerofEastfold has now been nice enough to read over my battle chapter and let me know that he couldn't find much wrong with it, I plan to post sometime in the next few days. Anyway, here's hoping. ;)
EomerofEastfold
· 3 January 2004
· Chapter 8: Tears and Frustration
I actually think you captured that feeling quite well. And it's not exactly a feeling unique to men, but rather those born with a warrior's spirit. It isn't a feeling that you can easily put into words. Lord knows I have tried and failed on many occasions. Those without a warrior's soul struggle to understand, and the ones that do understand the way you think and feel almost effortlessly. Some people's feelings are stronger than others, but that's the way I see the world.
I, for one, feel that I would rather take an an army of Orcs armed only with my teeth than to run for the hills.
Author's reply
I'm with you. I may not want to go into battle, and I know I'm never going to enlist in the Army or anything like that, but if some CREEP comes storming into MY house, threatening MY family and tries to KILL us all, I am NOT going to simply let him do so, if I have anything to say about it. I hate it when people act like cowards and let jerks take over their lives. DO something, for crying out loud. Don't run outside and call the police using your cell phone, because by the time they get there, the idiot will have gotten whatever he wants, maybe killed you and already run.
Anyway, that's how all my characters feel too. ;)
dr_seuss_is_cool
· 2 January 2004
· Chapter 8: Tears and Frustration
i think you did really well with getting the right feeling...i'm not a guy...but i think that u probably did get that feeling
well...i'm glad that Eradan won't be joining them just yet
man...i almost started crying cuz i don't want Narion to leave
i'm gonna cry if and when he dies
aww...and Belecthor...aww
i feel really really bad for Eradan...i wish that he could go into battle...but...i'm still glad that he gets to spend more time with Morwen
really excited to see some fighting
awesome job!!
Author's reply
Eradan's not as happy about staying behind as you are to see him stay. ;) Still, he has to admit that Morwen isn't exactly the worst company he could be keeping. :)
Don't worry. Narion actually wants to go. Of course, like all happily married people, he would rather stay at home with his wife and kids, but he's also a fighting man who loves his job. :)
The next chapter may take a little while. It's going through some extensive editing and such. I'm not very good with battles, really. Still, it's up to five pages so far.
coonzalas
· 2 January 2004
· Chapter 8: Tears and Frustration
I think you captured the feelings of military men perfectly. Though I'm a girl as well, my dad is in the USAF, and has been in combat before, and shortly will be again. He has described the feeling for me, and what you said pretty much matches up. I look forward to the next chapter. I'm really enjoying this story!
coon
Author's reply
Give my best to your dad. I've always been facinated by the Air Force. I'm also glad I captured the feeling right. I don't think I was exactly sure what I was going to write when I started this chapter, and I just put down what came to me. It really didn't even take that long to write, which surprised me.
Glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for the feedback.
Grey Wonderer
· 1 January 2004
· Chapter 7: Muster
I kept thinking how hard it must be for Faramir to send his sons and grandson into battle! It is difficult enough to know that your family will be fighting and may not return, but to know that you were the one that sent them!
Author's reply
Let's just say that I don't envy him. Not only is he sending his family to battle in Gondor proper, but he's also expecting to risk the lives of the rest of his sons and grandsons in Ithilien should the South attack there too. It's something that would drive me crazy, I can tell you that right now.
Grey Wonderer
· 31 December 2003
· Chapter 6: Return Home
Morwen is so different from her sister. She is calmer and has a very sweet way about her. I enjoyed the way that she managed to keep Eradan in bed with a bit of teasing and stories about herself. She comes off as a natural born care-giver in this chapter. Very nice.
If people reading this story have read "The White Horse and the White Banner", they can see the differences between Morwen and her sister, Hirilian. Both are strong characters, but they are two very different young women. Very like real sisters.
Author's reply
Morwen is very docile. She would be more than willing to live a life as a commoner, raising a nice little family somewhere. Where Hirilian was more the Eowyn type, rather wild at times. (But Ceorl managed to change that with just one letter. Kind of.) ;)
dr_seuss_is_cool
· 29 December 2003
· Chapter 7: Muster
i really love Faramir
hes so cool
i'm still worried about narion
i hope that he comes back alive
and everyone else too
i really hope that there's gonna be a farewell with morwen and eradan
if there is...then i can't wait!
great job!
Author's reply
I can't promise you anything, because Narion is a very reckless person at times, and it *will* get him killed one of these days. I just don't know when or where he's going to get it, yet. ;)
As for Morwen and Eradan, he can't go. (He's not too all-fired happy about that, either.) Since he's still got a pretty nasty and, for the most part, unhealed wound in his shoulder and he can't use his left arm, he has to stay there and get better before he can go fight.
EomerofEastfold
· 29 December 2003
· Chapter 7: Muster
Well, that was short, but well written. Are they off to battle then?
Author's reply
They await only the order to leave, and then they are off.