Reviews for "Going Under"

Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:12 am

*teary eyed*

Well....mercy on the sorry worm... mercy on him...

Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:37 pm

Wonderful.

I didn't think it possible to arouse sympathy for Grimi but you have created a credible past for him and gave humanity to him while remaining true to the character and canon. Very well done.

Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:54 am

Majestic! You managed to write a excellent fanfiction about a less-known/less favored character. Congratulations! This was wonderfully done. Very Happy smiley face

Thu Apr 08, 2004 4:56 pm

Wow! Never thought I'd feel sorry for that character, but we all come from somewhere and we're made of the damage and the love life brings us. Very well done! Your piece even speaks to the complete wreck Grima becomes later in the story, as well as his motivations before. Thumb smiley face

Wed Aug 10, 2005 6:16 am

OH GOD. You have complete mastery of this character. How unbelievably sad this was and so true as an explanation of the man. I will always think this of him now as part of his character. I wept freely reading this and felt such sympathy for Grima.

I loved the pivot of the story:

"I shook my head. Lies. These were a wizard’s lies. But my whole being reeled with a new yet gnawingly familiar pain. It was like remembering in a dream that one has had this dream before, an unconscious familiarity with an event to which the conscious mind has long since broken ties.

And with a wrathful wizard’s power Saruman reached past the stone walls built long ago by my own willful mind. Slowly I felt him begin to turn the key."

Lovely words and feelings and a sense of the inevitabilty of Saruman's cruelty about to destroy Grima even further. The wizard's words too, telling such a complex story of Grima's conception and childhood, a huge scenario conjured in a small space. Wizardry from you indeed. Brilliant, the whole thing.

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