Reviews for "A Tale of the Sixth Age"

Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:00 pm

I had to review Chapter One before I went on to review Chapter Two. My reaction is the follwing in the series of emoticons shown here: Smile smiley face

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CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You Space Weavil are amazing. I especially liked the parts where you described Gandalf showing up at "Eomer's" house unannounced like he did to Bilbo on his fiftieth birthday. Brings joy to my heart. You have gotten me hooked. I agree with Vana over the BBC and the Mordor Burgers! Oh man, I thought for a second I was hallucinating but then I read it over and I laughed. Oh man, the evils of technology and the joys you can get from using it. Oh man, the Industrial Revolution, got to love that and I enjoyed the fact that you introduced cars and vespas. Very Happy smiley face

Oh and the degree in Elvish is forever etched in my mind. *sighs* Well moving on to bigger and better things.

Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:11 pm

I definitely love Faergi (the symboly thingy won't work on here for me. Grr). He's a well made character and a dwarf shoplifting? Oh how damnable it is to see the race of man, dwarves and hobbits fall short of honour. Chivalry is dead! DEAD I say! Hehehe, yes I love the propaganda against smoking. "Those things will kill ya. They've gone and researched it, the elves in Rivendell have. One elf says it rots your lungs."

Classic! Very Happy smiley face

I love your fic. You know, you SHOULD write an original fic and see where it takes you. I'd love to read it whenever you have time for it. Anyway on to Chapter Three.

Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:28 pm

Ah ha! The introduction of the naughty twins Twisted Evil smiley face

it warms the soul. Oh dear, Poor Eomer, he's being compared to his ancestors when in reality he's his own person. When will those golden oldies learn? Never compare the scruffball perhaps smaller descendant to the kings of old because they may just surprise you! Hmm....Fraegi reminds me of Gimli but not quite. Hahaha, Appare Winfárë, oh man. Got to love the Arda translation of Oprah Winfrey. Laughing smiley face

"No, the other mad woman from last month, that kid doesn't even look like me!"

Sorry, I'm reading Chapter Three while reviewing so I can straighten out my favourite parts which is stupid and strange but I believe that it's for the best. All in all, the wit and humour and 'seriousness' is well written. My favourite line from it so far is:
“No,” he replied. “If I want to use my Senior’s Railcard, I have to travel before nine o’ clock.”

Ah, man I missed wit when it came to reading things about Lord of the Rings and Gandalf's wit is the greatest thing ever! Oh, is Fraegi there for not only comic relief but a 'substitute' (dare I say it) for the lackage of Gimli being present? Oh and is Legolas ever going to show up? Oh and what about descendants of Aragorn, Faramir, the Hobbits oh and others? Will they become present in your fic too? Another thing, no wonder I didn't like watching television often, evil was radiating off the screen in waves. Then again some of the stuff on the tube is fun to watch. Anyway, I'm getting off topic as usual so I'll end this review with a please update soon.

Fri Jan 21, 2005 5:56 am

*snorts* haha...i do love the dwarf as well Spacey! I'd review more but i gotta head to school (great Chapter though.)

~Christina

Sat Jan 22, 2005 4:48 pm

The first line lays out the whole setting in one vastly amusing sentence. Do you know how *hard* that is?! You make it seem so effortless. Great style, great mechanics, gut-chortling lines ... Morder Burgers! Barad-dur Broadcasting Company! *Sprfle!* Write more humour! This is classic stuff. Reminds me (a lot, actually) of Claudio's elf-twins comedies, only with some sort of Grand Epic lurking on the edges of all the funny bits. Wink smiley face

Plus, well, there are those twins again ("and that is old?" ... and leather pants. hee). I'm so hooked.

Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:38 pm

“Besides,” added Gandalf, “as you yourself bear witness, sometimes it is not the people in the highest places that prove the most useful.”

How very true. Very Happy smiley face

Again, very well done! Nothing to say except HUZZAH!

Sun Jan 23, 2005 12:35 am

Have you read Diane Duane's "Stealing the Elf-King's Roses"? This story reminds me of that in a good way.

I like Eom- I mean, Alderman. You managed to take a character I had little interest in and make him into a believable protagonist. I really like how you keep his spirit but place him firmly within his environment. You get the sense that Alderman's jadedness and cynicism are not intrinsic aspects of his nature, but things he has had to learn to cope with the world he lives in. Despite this, he still has 3rd Age Eomer's no-nonsense attitude.

I enjoy Elladan and Elrohir. Their grave demeanor is a refreshing departure from the merry pranksters in so many fanfics. What I especially enjoy is how you handle their differences from Men. The tendency in fanfic is to make them just like us but pretty and immortal or to make them completely beyond our understanding. I really like how you have Alderman contemplate what it may be like for Elves to live in the 6th Age. You have really showed me a different perspective on the idea of sailing West. At first I was inclined to think that sailing West was the Elves abandoning the world, leaving it to the filth that people put it in, but now I think that maybe it is with resignation and regret that they do so because they truly can't do anymore.

I thoroughly enjoy the way you gave evil an upgrade to the modern world. Unlike in previous Ages, when all you had to do was look to the nearest Dark Lord to explain most of the bad things that happen, the evil of the 6th Age is more complex, subtle, and pervasive. The way you describe the world makes me think that most people aren't willing servants of evil. They are simply apathetic to the larger context of what's going on. Particularly interesting is how you show this apathy not just on a grand scale with politics or the environment, but with the smaller things such as the Hobbit family on the train. If people find it so hard to even care about their own lives, what can you expect them to do to fix the world? What I'm interested in seeing is whether this apathy is the cause of the ills in the world, or merely a symptom.

Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:52 am

*THUDS* yet again...another WONDERFUL chapter. Very Happy smiley face

~Christina

Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:53 pm

Gods Bree sounds worse than it did in the third age! Love what you have done with the twins characters brooding Very Happy smiley face

Gandalf sounds as criptic as ever.... awaiting next chapter Smile smiley face

Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:21 pm

i love it! So unique and creative! I can't wait to see more of the Tolkien characters embodied.

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