Reviews for "Celestial Quartet"
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SilverMoonLady
Joined: 14 Jul 2003
Reviews: 251
Location: Breaking in a Brandybuck... *wicked grin*
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Fri Dec 26, 2003 8:19 pm
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This is a very neat piece, or pieces actually Oh the flaws and circumstances that lead us into our choices for ill or good... I haven't read much in the way of fiction set in Numenor, but I didn't feel the lack because your characterizations are very catching and I got caught up right away. I like the way various elements of the four sections connect together, the falling stars in the first and last, Grima and Ancalime's rejecting gesture of throwing the stone in anger, Merry's granddaughter's name linked to that of his great-grandfather's mistress by pure coincidence All quite neat! |
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Thevina
Joined: 20 Nov 2003
Reviews: 31
Location: U.S.
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Sun Dec 28, 2003 3:00 pm
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SilverMoonLady said
This is a very neat piece, or pieces actually
My #1 fan!! Thank you so much for reading this one. It's one of my absolute favorites because it's so different and set in the most obscure time periods I could find - just to do it.  But because of that, I think people tend not to read it. Plus it doesn't have (m)any characters that they are familiar with.
Oh the flaws and circumstances that lead us into our choices for ill or good...
Isn't that the truth?!
I haven't read much in the way of fiction set in Numenor, but I didn't feel the lack because your characterizations are very catching and I got caught up right away.
Thank you. There isn't much written that's set in Numenor because I think people don't read Unfinished Tales as much as either LotR or The Silmarillion. But the story of Aldarion and Erendis just fascinates me.
I like the way various elements of the four sections connect together, the falling stars in the first and last, Grima and Ancalime's rejecting gesture of throwing the stone in anger, Merry's granddaughter's name linked to that of his great-grandfather's mistress by pure coincidence All quite neat!
*blush* Many thanks. I did try to link them all by several elements, and you've found most of them. Did you catch the "Farmer Giles of Ham" bit in the second chapter with farmers Giles and Ham? That was completely gratuitous on my part, but I realize not everyone's read that work by Tolkien. The other little bit is that both the mistress and Lunawyn are left-handed. I keep trying to add left-handed people into M-E.
I am so pleased to have a fan!! It is the ultimate compliment. Once I get home and am not on vacation I'll see if you're a writer as well! |
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Last edited by Thevina on Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:40 pm |
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