Reviews for "Once in a Fair Green Country..."

Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:39 pm

Great chapter. I liked the canon that you wove into it. I'm glad to see your muse is happy again.

Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:29 pm

Really great ending. Very creative. I really liked this one for how completely different it was from your typical drooling romance. This was much more interesting and well written.

Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:50 pm

Again your skill humbles. I'm really glad you didn't succumb to a cliche ending. I liked how you used the canon to describe the passage of time.

Very, very good read.
Inglor

Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:34 pm

Wow! I wondered how you were going to end this i.e. what you were going to have happen Gandalf's love. I never expected that! What a great idea. I really loved the canon that you worked into this and the exploration of Gandalf's character/past. Great story!

Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:57 am

Heh, drunk Elrond fell asleep and missed all the saddest stuff. Poor Gandalf, I just adore how you've portraying him here Space. I love this fic too.

Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:39 pm

This is really great. I love how Gandalf is portrayed here.

Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:43 pm

That was an absolutely beautiful story. I really enjoyed how very real and true it seemed. So little is known of Gandalf when he dwelled in Valinor, and it's nice to see a little glimpse of it. Yet very sad too...

Thanks for writing this for the challenge. He is very dear to my heart, and I enjoy reading anything of him that rings true.

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Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:27 am

Space Weavil does it again. I don’t know how, but this story is so full of beautiful descriptions that I am amazed by the elegance and richness of it. It feels like poetry and yet it is only a short story. I can’t help myself to think that I want to read more of this wonderful prose.

By now I am fully convinced (well like if I ever doubted that before) that you are a writer that writes the characters emotions so deeply and profound that the reader truly feels their pain of missing a loved one. No matter if they ever married or not. I love the insight in a life of a Maiar in Valinor you are giving us Space, the way you write the dialogue, let Ëonwe speak for example feel very genuine. When I read this story, I was amazed how much time passed in this small amount of pages and words (yes, again I am blasted away by this unique talent of yours). Time truly doesn't matter for Maiar and Valar does it? I love the way how you illustrate this with the story of Finwë/Miriel/Fëanor. For elves time passes slowly and I was pleasantly surprised how you demonstrated this for the Maiar. Your Olorin is incredibly well and believable written, I feel very sorry for him and yet, I get a warm feeling that he still hopes to meet the one he truly loves, just like how Elrond hopes to be reunited again with Celebrían.

How on earth do you pull this of Space? In one line you catch so much of what is happening in the story, you cover so much in so less sentences and on top of that, you also spent a lot of time in well developed characters: both canon characters and original characters.

Ai.. Elbereth, I can only bow to this magnificence in awe and wonder..

Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:04 am

This story was so well written and constructed that I am almost speechless with admiration (and so I fear it will be a short review). All I can say is that I will never think of Gandalf in quite the same way again. You've added a depth to his character that makes his years of selfless service for the greater good all the more poignant.

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