| Author | Review |
|---|
Senta
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
Reviews: 57
Location: UK
|
|
Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:11 pm
|
|
|
I loved this,especially as it challenges the widely held view of Rivendell as a place of supreme comfort for humans.I liked your feisty Gilraen very much.
You've a minor typo ,you might wish to fix
"He took Gilrasen’d cold hands " |
|
|
| Author's replied on Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:18 pm |
Thanks much, both for the review and for pointing out the typo! *blush... I fixed it* I'm sure Rivendell was a perfectly comfortable place for elves, but I sometimes forget how different elves and humans are, and I have to remind myself.  |
|
|
|
|
 |
lurker
Joined: 19 Jan 2007
Reviews: 4
Location:
|
|
Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:26 pm
|
|
|
| Well done. I liked how you really seemed to get into Gilraen's head. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Xenarwen
Joined: 06 Jul 2008
Reviews: 8
Location:
|
|
Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:13 pm
|
|
|
It must be very unpleasant to be growing old among the Elves, especially for a woman. No wonder Gilraen wants to leave...
Great story! |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
lissaselves
Joined: 28 Dec 2007
Reviews: 42
Location: Right here!
|
|
Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:55 am
|
|
|
Wonderful description! I like this plain, sturdy woman a lot.
Those wet, cold feet are simply a perfect way to give substance to her mortality, her being so very different from these graceful immortals. No wonder she would spend her last days with her kin; growing old and dying in Rivendell would feel bitter, indeed. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NancyBrooke
Joined: 12 May 2003
Reviews: 558
Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
|
|
Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:10 pm
|
|
|
| I enjoyed this very much, Viv, particularly your characterization of Gilraen as a less than lady-like lady. She is a very human embodiment of contradictions - dreamer and realist, spent but proud, knowing her hopes are few but still acting in hope of her own betterment, perhaps for the first time in her life. So many times Gilraen is portrayed as something of a madonna, just accepting that her fate is subsumed in the greater destiny of husband and son, But your vision is of a different, and to me, far more interesting woman. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
curiouswombat
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Reviews: 249
Location: An island in the Gulf of Lhún
|
|
Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:13 am
|
|
|
| How beautifully written - and also how sad but true. Gilraen is one of the sad figures of Tolkien, I think. Sometimes I think the prof didn't either like his women much, or really didn't think of them as anything but plot devices... |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Live Journal Feed
