Reviews for "Aftermath"

Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:39 pm

Wow, when I thought you couldn't surprise me anymore, you create this outstanding piece. This one shot was perfect, as everything you write! It was touching, poignent, real. And creating a warrior and virgin Haldir was really brilliant. Bravo! Wave smiley face

Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:54 am

Weavil:

I guess I am not the only one to see Haldir as the "virgin warrior!" This story is like a dream come true for me! I always wanted to see Haldir at Dol Guldur. Very Happy smiley face

The title "Aftermath" was appropriate because I saw the carnage in my mind's eye. The love scene was tragic and touching.

As always, I love your way with words.

Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:34 am

This is one of those priceless, brilliant stories which can give quite a shock and deserves 10 stars.
You borrowed the bookverse Haldir. That can be rarely seen, as far as I know (I suppose it's Mr. Parker's fault Wink smiley face

). You portrayed a common-as-dirt, like Eruanna said, marchwarden in a different perspective and perfectly captured Haldir's uncertainty and desire.
The atmosphere is thick with despair, sadness, homesickness, and yet there is also hope. I love the final conversation between Haldir and Celeborn. Also your description of Dol Guldur and its surroundings is so detailed that I have a clear picture in my mind.
Thank you for sharing this one. I'm really fascinated.

Binka
*bows and pays her respects*

Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:23 pm

I just may have to open the SW Fan Club.

Priceless. The hesitant, tentative virgin is not a facet we usually link to Haldir. It is a character so strong...

Everything was flawless, from the weariness of post battle from the despair and longing from the loosing in each other's bodies.

Sat Jun 25, 2005 6:30 pm

Okay, wow hardly seems adequate. The description of the battle scene through Haldir's eyes, was just so evocative. I could see in my mind's eye the lifeless skull and sense his questioning and doubts trying not to think of those that had so recently perished. His thoughtfulness in the intitial encounter with the lost girl was also easy to imagine the way you wrote it. The physical encounter, with hardly a word, was well done. Then the lost, was that a dream feeling upon his awakening to find her gone. The meeting with Celeborn, well done, and the longing for home. Just Wow, again. Bow smiley face

Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:44 pm

Loved this Space! This is so much more than PWP. In a short piece, you gave the OFC a lot of depth and made me care about her and wonder about her. And I loved the way you portrayed their...ahem...union... Smile smiley face

I liked Haldir's uncertainty and inexperience. Great job!

Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:29 am

I am so totally blown away by this piece Space. I have never read anything quite like it. Everything about it was amazing. This is exactly what is meant when someone says they were transported by something they read. I was literally picked up and taken to a place and time so foreign yet starkly real. I felt the cold and the despair and confusion of Haldir. I just...words fail me, seriously. What a beautiful thing this is. You have hit on something in recent days, your writing, esp. this and the Glorfindel piece has simply risen to a new level. Wow.

Jes

Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:31 am

It looks like everything that can be said, has been said already. I'll only add a little. It was all so real. You didn't write about characters, you wrote about people. Real living beings who are as imperfect and fallible as reality makes them. Wonderful job, wonderful writing. This piece was truly touching.

Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:37 am

Sometimes poetry meets prose and in the darkest hours, there is light. Hurt can be healed by something so pure as love. In this beautiful and well paced story you convey so much with an incredible depth. Haldir tells her he will take care of her, but no line spoken by her because her actions do say so much. In this very beautiful and intimate moment, Haldir gave her something she craved for, maybe that part of humanity they took from her, or just to feel something like this again. And deep down, I think Haldir understands that. What a gem of a story Space.

Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:20 pm

I am normally not a fan of the "sex with a stranger" theme and I never really got what made Haldir so hot.

Then I read this story.

It is very rare to find a piece that is both spare and lush at the same time. Spare in that every single word works, not a phrase is superfluous or wasted; but lush in the detail and the intimacy created. Good Writing lets you see what is going on, Great Writing makes you feel what is going on. I had thought to pick out a phrase or two to illustrate that, but it is nearly impossible to pick out just one, because the whole piece is so tight and well constructed.

This is Great Writing.

I read this story before RL took me out of Middle Earth for a while, but it was one crossed my mind on more than one occasion because it is so haunting. It may take me a while but I intend to read everything you have written. Thanks for a great story.

Roh
(climbing on the Haldir bandwagon)

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