Reviews for "Tolkien in Love"
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curiouswombat
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
Reviews: 249
Location: An island in the Gulf of Lhún
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Mon May 31, 2010 6:02 am
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I really enjoyed your essay and found myself nodding my head in agreement in lots of places.
I have to admit to crowing as I have written a cross-over, girl-falls-into-ME where I set out to avoid all the pitfalls you mention.
There is a logical reason for her dropping between dimensions, she does not arrive during the Ring War, she does not fall for Legolas, or him for her, nor any of the other big heroes. She is badly injured and spends a realistic time in traction, strapping, 'plaster casts' , and so on, unable to do anything for herself - and is really embarrassed when she realises that for the time she was unconscious and being carried to the House of Healing, her male rescuers took care of changing her urine soaked linen etc... (Um -yes, I am a nurse who has worked in orthopaedics...!)
And, on finding a copy of LACE in the library at Minas Tirith, I have five elves both indignant and amused at how the human writer has so many things wrong... |
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| Author's replied on Mon May 31, 2010 8:05 am |
Glad you liked the essay! And glad some nurses out there write fanfic to bring the nursing back where it is. You have all my admiration, your job is not easy. (A friend's mother's a nurse, and I have used her expertise for research in the past, which has brought me shaking my head in disapproval to all the edulcorated brow-mopping fics).
Eheh, and glad I ain't the only one disagreeing with LACE either.  |
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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Reviews: 1118
Location: Wherever I may roam
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Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:26 am
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This is very, very good! Well constructed, enjoyable, witty, and your approach to some of the problems mentioned made me really want to hug you  So, a big, fat, great thank you for posting this essay 
All the best,
Binka |
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| Author's replied on Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:56 am |
| A big fat thank you to you for reviewing! Glad you liked it. |
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