Reviews for "The Trees Remember"

Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:29 am

Oh God! What an ending to this chapter! Poor Elaneth. I hope someone somewhere has something up their sleeve to get her and Haldir out of all this. I have a feeling I'm going to need a box of tissues for the next chapter, which I hope will be posted soon.

Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:31 pm

Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:52 am

To be honest, the former concentration camp in Auschwitz is located 70 km from my hometown, so... maybe I could help? I would gather a group of partisans to attack the transportation and rescue Haldir.
What a heart-wrenching ending Sad smiley face

I'm very happy to see Alatar's decay, and I'm really dying to see the next chapter.
Still, I want to quote my favorite lines that sum up this chapter in a very powerful way: The Brown Wizard dropped the cracked iron staff onto the Turkish carpet. His face twisted in anger at the sight of the ruined iron against the red carpet. The symbolism did not escape him. Blood and Iron had united Germany, and his iron staff now lay broken on the blood red carpet. And I had "There's always hope" in my mind while reading these lines. Again, a fantastic chapter Vana. Thank you Smile smiley face

Binka

Fri Dec 23, 2005 9:26 pm

that's my face right now.
congrats on the chapter.
please continue!

Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:58 am

Excellently written ending - there was such a ring of finality to it! I've enjoyed reading this (and following the last few chapters), and look forward to seeing more of your work, either LOTR, HP, or Narnia based. Thanks for writing such a great story!

Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:34 am

*gasp*

Vana,
I just want to say thank you for this magnificent, beautiful, captivating, touching, sad and funny at the same time, story. What an ending! I went like: okay, it's over. Now what! What am I going to read Shocked smiley face

I really enjoyed reading this, from the first chapter to the last. And I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing the sequel, hoping your muses will convince you to continue the story. Thank you once again.

Best wishes,
Binka, your fangirl Smile smiley face

Fri Dec 30, 2005 9:27 am

A beautiful ending to a beautifully written story.

Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:20 pm

Well done, Vana. Absolutely....wonderful. Congratulations on the completion!

Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:59 am

Whoa, totally loved the ending!! I'm now hoping for a sequel! Hrmm... meeting the dead parents after released from Mandos, continued healing after ordeal in Germany....oooh...!!!

Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:10 am

Oh wow, Vana! I have been really sick (like hospitalized sick) for the last months and I missed a lot of updates--yours and others. I was just getting caught up and I have to say, I am really glad I was forced to wait to read these last chapters all at once--I think waiting for the updates would have killed me (or you because I'd have been nagging you Wink smiley face

). This was incredible. I picked it up at Laws and Customs of the Eldar--what chapter to have missed for so long! I love the way they finally came together. The pursuit/anticipation is the sweetest part of romance and you did a great job building up to this. And the reward was wonderfully done. But as I was reading it, I could help thinking--this is too perfect, something is going to go wrong. Boy was I right. I was so shocked in the next chapter when Sárëawë passed (great description of that event) and when Legolas and the twins arrived after Fánaséro's passing. That really had me worrying. The next chapter I think I read so fast that I had to read it again just to be sure I'd got it right. I knew they were going to be captured after all that bliss! The fight was very well done and the interrogation was too. Alatar's story was a sad one, of course, as were the revelations about E's past. I thought it was a fascinating contrast--two beings that expereinced essentially the same events/torments; that both were tempted to react in the same harsh way--but we know the final results of how E and Alatar turned out. A very powerful conversation. And the fight between Alatar, Legolas and the twins! This is where I would have gone crazy--I can't believe you left that chapter where you did and then let us hang through the next chapter! Evil author! God I could barely read the chapter where Haldir and E are tortured. That was terrifying. I was so relieved to see Gandalf appear in the next chapter. “I am still a messenger. This time I come on behalf of Námo.” -- I loved that line. And the ending of that chapter--obviously I was bawling like a baby at that point. "As long as there are trees to remember me." Great! So powerful.

So, from Gandalf's words and the fact that they granted her request to take her to a forest, did Radagast have a hand in helping Haldir escape with her? Did Radagast's allies help? I hope so.

I absolutely loved the end chapter. I couldn't believe it as I began reading it that Thranduil et al were leaving and there was no word of E. That was too sad. And when she appeared, it was even sadder. The description of her finally seeing the Straight Path was incredibly well done. And I loved the scene in Valinor. Like Celebrian, she can heal and she is strong enough to do so.

This was a wonderful story, Vana. Absolutely perfect. I loved it and I am sorry to see it end.
Kneel, Suckers smiley face

Great job!

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