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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Reviews: 1118
Location: Wherever I may roam
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Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:54 am
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This is a powerful and evocative chapter -- and heart-breaking. Somehow, reading about honorable deeds, heroes, battles etc. we may forget that such casual deaths must have happened to people in ME too. Only we don't agree with the idea of our favorite hero to die in such a manner, do we? I feel so incredibly sorry for Elladan. On the other hand, it seems that it was fate that decided instead the twins as far as their final choice was concerned.
I love how you portrayed the relationships within the family so far. And I love Glorfindel here -- a side character, but a real friend who cares.
Great stuff! |
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| Author's replied on Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:40 pm |
Thank you so much - it occurred to me that during the years after their mother's torment they must have been aware that one or the other might die - they might even have discussed it. But fifteen or twenty years after the end of the Ring War they would simply not expect it - it would be very, very, different.
I realised it would impact on everyone - the question was 'how?' Writing it has been quite painful - sometimes a bit like drawing teeth. But it is completed at 3 chapters - the second is with my beta, and the third is ready for his input. |
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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Reviews: 1118
Location: Wherever I may roam
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Sun Dec 05, 2010 11:21 am
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This is such a beautiful and moving chapter that I had tears in my eyes while reading. The idea of Arwen trying and not knowing how to die is especially moving, I think. Well, it wasn't easy to be immortal, but on the other hand it seems very believable -- in her case -- that once having been immortal, she had little idea of what it was like to lay down and die. Then again, Elladan in Valinor, poor thing  I love that Gimli was beside him in that very moment.
Beautiful chapter! |
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| Author's replied on Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:03 pm |
Thank you. It occurred to me quite a long time ago that, if Arwen knew just how Aragorn was able to die at the time of his choosing, she would almost certainly have done likewise, and quickly. It will figure in a short Returnverse story that is not yet written, and it seemed right for it to be part of this tale, too.
Poor Elladan had been so convinced that Elrohir would be waiting... I have been very cruel to him in this story. |
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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
Reviews: 1118
Location: Wherever I may roam
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Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:06 pm
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I knew he would come back 
Loved the idea of both Estel and Arwen saying farewell to Elrohir.
Beautiful and moving story. Thank you! |
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| Author's replied on Thu Dec 09, 2010 5:41 pm |
| I am so glad you liked that meeting in Mandos Halls - and that the twins were reunited in the end. I wouldn't have been so cruel as to leave them apart any longer :~) |
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Rebekah
Joined: 26 Mar 2010
Reviews: 13
Location: anywhere...
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Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:30 pm
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| Wow. I'm exhausted after reading that emotional roller-coaster. That was heartbreaking, poignant, and beautiful. |
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| Author's replied on Sat Jun 18, 2011 3:25 am |
| Thank you so much for letting me know that you read it - I'm sorry I left you exhausted - but it certainly lets me know that the story works! I was on the emotional roller-coaster when I wrote it, it used to wring me out, too. But I think it is one of my favourites of my own stories, to be honest. |
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