Reviews for "... and hear the song of salt and sea"

Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:48 am

You have taken an original idea and written a very perceptive and deep chapter on the rarely written about, married life of the steward and his wife Finduilas. This was VERY good! I loved the way you presented your tale with the retrospective angle and then the present, not an easy thing to do, yet you managed it effortlessly. It served to give the reader a peek into the mind of Finduilas at each stage of her married life and made her more 'real'.

Your writing is very talented and your use of language very poinant - "Her lord was still there, but her husband was gone. "

The ending left me feeling so sad - but then the art of a good writer is to make the reader experience emotions, so in this case 'sad'- is good!

An excellent tale, hope to see more,

Rohannion
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Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:54 am

Very poetically written, I love the way you describe dawn breaking and how it reminds Finduilas of her home, also the way you manage to interweave the present and the past.

A sad story, but it goes well with how Denethor and his sons are characterised in LOTR.

Keep writing!
Lia

Thu May 25, 2006 8:45 pm

Excellent! You make the reader feel her grief, showed how she
fle trapped like a bird in a stone cage. And you showed her relationship to Faramir. Well done.
A perfectly miserable story, but you pulled it off!

Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:43 am

An effective and haunting story, showing Finduilas' increasing isolation and loneliness. The way she clings to little Faramir, perhaps unknowingly clinging too much and expecting too much from so young a child, is heartbreaking.

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