Forgotten Allies (R)
by JMac.
Chapters [21]
Reviews [ 25]
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Thu May 06, 2004 7:26 am
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I originally found this story on another site, which only went up to Chapter 11, so I'm glad to have found the conclusion here. A well-written and engaging tale which can, as other reviewers have pointed out, be very moving in places (notably the scene with the dead hobbits in the barrow). My only two quibbles are that firstly, as with much American (presumably) fiction set in the UK the language at times is clearly wrong for the setting and/or period, and the geography is odd (Fife is very near Edinburgh, so even a wartime railway journey from Waverley station wouldn't take hours), and that, secondly, the Occupied France scenes are pretty dodgy historically (communication between England and France seems overeasy, there wasn't much of a Resistance in 1940, it is never explained how the characters get into France, nor that the border they cross is [presumably] the internal one between the Vichy [Free] Zone and the Occupied Zone, nor what passports they are travelling under [they would have to be Axis or Neutral, probably the latter, so US passports would be good for 1940). However such errors also occur even in wartime films (Casablanca is hardly accurate, being really set in Tangier!) and indeed some of them give the story the feel of a wartime flagwaver that might have been written if LoTR had been published in the 1930s rather than the 1950s. I'm looking forward to reading the final chapters. Congratulations!   |
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Last edited by Catalanman on Thu May 06, 2004 7:34 am |
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