Reviews for "A Liminal Patience"

Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:35 pm

This is great stuff, and so richly expressed! I particularly liked the wonderfully complete vision your portrait of Grima gives us of Eowyn, and that what he loves about her is so intrisically Rohirric. It's so tempting to think of Grima as being alien to Rohan, but here you've clearly made him a product of that culture that prizes beauty, horses and land so highly.

Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:00 am

I always have such a hard time thinking of Grima as a man. I think his betrayal makes him seem very human, but here you've done an excellent job of reminding us of the other traits- his jealousy, his fear of Theodred and Eomer, the longing that he can only indulge in from a distance- that make him more than just a villan. The line about wishing to be a drop of her sweat sticks with me as a great image and sentiment. Very nicely done.

Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:14 pm

Although Grima was not a favourite of mine - as was the success of his role, your short piece managed to delve beneath the evil and show us the man that he once was and wanted to be. Great stuff.

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