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Title: Mistress <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=635>
Gilraen · Author: AfterEver
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-25 01:06:22 Score: 5
Apologies, AE, I'm going to resort to an older review! I enjoyed this
story—there aren't many Gilraen writers out there, and the Elrond-Gilraen
relationship is left something of a cipher in the books (as is pretty much
everything Gilraen). It's good to see her as a young woman who makes
mistakes, but who is determined to do her duty at any cost. This isn't a
funny story per se, although it is comical in how badly Gilraen misread or
rather, wrongly assumed, what Elrond's intentions were. It ends on a bit of
a WAFF moment, but it's enjoyable WAFF, I think.

Title: Dance of
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=3312> Terrible Grace
· Author: Adina
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-25 01:06:59 Score: 6
I greatly appreciate the much emboldened and distinctly scary Legolas in
this fic. It certainly makes sense of later significant Legolas-Gimli
interaction in TTT, and the idea that Legolas first saw beauty in Gimli
during the skirmish in Moria works well here. I also simply love this line
for its in-your-face defiance of fanon:

"I love to kill.... Does it not fit your image of an elf, care-free and
ethereal, Fa-la-la-la-laley, welcome to the valley?"

The valley of the shadow of death, perhaps! Short but worth a few reads,
especially when one grows tired of frolicking, peace-loving Elves and wonder
where the Legolas went who counted coup with such glee at Helm's Deep.


Title: In the Deep
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=4897> Places ·
Author: Lamiel
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8> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural · ID: 751
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:33:22 Score: 10
Without a doubt, this is the finest and most detailed account of the journey
from hostile mistrust to the blossoming of friendship between Legolas and
Gimli that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Lamiel does justice to
both Gimli and Legolas as culturally and essentially different beings and
personalities, which, among other things, means not simply leaving them by
themselves or (the same thing) reducing the other Fellowship members to a
line or two of facile fortune-cookie style lines before they more or less
vanish from the story. This is a great Legolas-Gimli fic, in effect, because
the other Fellowship members with whom they interact and who form their
social context are well-portrayed and given a depth and individuality and
set of struggles all their own.

At the same time, the major focus is on Gimli's and Legolas' interactions
with each other. It's very easy to go overboard on their hostility; Lamiel
avoids that route. Argumentative explosions are rare enough and well-placed.
They are given time to build, and time and events that help diffuse them.
The road is rocky, but not so much so that one ends up wondering how the two
could ever repair the damage of any particular exchange. The more friendly
exchanges never move to the level of the two weeping together or anything of
that sort, but remain at an appropriate distance, using humor, irascability,
even giddy exhaustion to maneuver them together closely enough to get
something from the exchange but also to keep them distant enough for their
own comfort.

Beyond all that, style and substance suit each other; Lamiel pulls off a
blend of book and movies, without managing simply to repeat either. She
finds the open spaces in those two narratives, so that lines borrowed from
Tolkien feel fresh and lively once more; they don't just limp across the
page, pallid, worn-out echoes of themselves. There is absolutely nothing of
emotional or verbal preciosity here; no superfluous angst or anything of
that sort. There's drama, there's humor, there's grief, and there's action,
all of it very well handled, both taken in itself and together. I highly
recommend this fic not only to lovers of Gimli and Legolas and their
friendship, but to anyone who likes to see the Fellowship written well as an
ensemble. Beautifully done, Lamiel. This was a pleasure form beginning to
end.


Title: The Wisdom of
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Author: Finch
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:35:21 Score: 3
I particularly liked the shock that Finrod endured when he realized how
short Men's lives were. It's one of those facts one takes for granted, but
seeing Finrod experience it for the *very* first time lends a freshness to a
stock mortal/immortal confrontation.

Title: An Unexpected Gift
<http://www.freewebs.com/aure/anunexpectedgift.htm> · Author: Marta
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> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Drabble · ID: 584

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:36:36 Score: 1
Hm, for someone eager to see the back of the old wizard, Denethor doesn't
seem to be in a mood to hurry him along!

Title: Beyond the
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Author: Marta
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> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Vignette · ID: 578

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:37:04 Score: 2
Leave it to Elrond to find the right gift for newly curious hobbits and
their soon-to-be school masters! Also, it was nice to see the extent of
change in the North after the return of the king.

Title: The
<http://www.libraryofmoria.com/legolasgimli/theflowersandthesun.txt> Flower
and the Sun · Author: Ezra's
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:37:38 Score: 3
There's just enough tension in the banter to keep this story nicely out of
angst-land, despite the *cough* flowery metaphor games about the distance
between the earth and the sky, so to speak. I at least found it an enjoyable
tale of the first confessions of love.

Title: Dropping
<http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Head.php?STid=223> Eaves ·
Author: Paranoidangel
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:38:07 Score: 2
Nice to see Frodo and Sam's early relationship, even if as a retelling. I'd
thought a little more might've been made of the encounter with Gandalf,
though.

Title: Heirlooms
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3594&cid=13632> · Author:
maranya14
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0> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Drabble · ID: 481
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:38:39 Score: 2
A very rare interaction, made the more unusual since we don't have a lot of
stories that show Denethor as a young man. Thengel reminds us that the
Rohirrim have a much longer history than their current country.

Title: Dancing in the
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Author: Marnie
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:39:10 Score: 4
It's good to see the arts that don't result in an immediate product shown in
their proper light, as vehicles and expressions of great power and craft
that needn't stand ashamed before smithying or the like. The constant battle
of remembering that there's a fault in valuing purity too highly, that it
becomes narrow-minded and divisive, is well portrayed, as Celeborn comes to
recognize that he is not free of the very mindset he wishes to dispel.

Title: Childhood
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/challenge/chapter_view.cfm?NGID=102&STID=2359&
SPOrdinal=23> Ends · Author: Marnie
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:39:42 Score: 6
This story, short as it is, exemplifies that transition from a mythic age to
a mundane one, and the pain and dislocation of that transformation that will
be felt for some time, as memories fade both too quickly and too slowly for
anyone's comfort. That Eldarion, in a sense, reiterates Arwen's choice to
surrender immortality, but on the scale of an entire people, is an apt
parallel, very well-played. A hard choice, to liberate oneself from the
self-imposed tutelage, but then Enlightenment was always a painful process.
Exquisitely written, as usual, with that something more that Marnie brings
to all her stories.

Title: One Breath
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=4351> · Author: M.
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3> Sebasky · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Vignette · ID: 472
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:40:23 Score: 3
The answer to Aragorn/Arwen fans who feel their favorite Ranger spends far
too much time frolicking around the slash literature to satisfy! Erotic,
definitely, but not simply erotica. It is also elegantly written and has a
bit of a deeper point to it. I like that Arwen ends on the indrawn breath—in
anticipation of what awaits her, not dread.

Title: Toy Story
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=3912> · Author:
Gwynnyd
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:41:08 Score: 5
This goes very nicely alongside "Not Without Hope"; I like the use to which
old toy soldiers were put in this story. It's always a bit strange to
remember that most people who lost a parent or a relative very young would
never see that person's likeness—blame it on the photographic revolution
that is so pervasive! In that sense, Aragorn is very lucky that Elrohir
chose to model toy Rangers on real people. He does have that visual link,
and an answer to very old questions and strange memories that help him to
more easily pull the different strands of his life together.

Title: All In a <http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=1380>
Hand · Author: Gaslight
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:41:42 Score: 4
This is an unusual interaction, and it could have been terribly angsty, but
Gaslight avoided that route in favor of preserving Éowyn's youth
determination and good spirits over her actual youth. It's good to see
Legolas be unsettled in this way. It's not a long moment, but it's clear he
needs his mortal friends' guidance when dealing with the phenomenon of
aging.

Title: Maturity
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1887&cid=11551> · Author:
Forodwaith
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> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Drabble · ID: 381

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:42:13 Score: 2
A rather sober comparison of the meaning and mark of maturity among two
peoples, and a bit beyond. Lordship goes beyond maturity into something
perhaps deeper.

Title: Mushroom <http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3515>
Lore · Author: Werecat
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> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Humor · ID: 365

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:42:43 Score: 4
A rather mouth-watering interlude which certainly makes sense in the context
of a long journey. Food, its preparation, and the social setting of meals is
so central a theme for any culture that it would be surprising if the
Fellowship never once talked about recipes or memories of helping to prepare
a meal. I felt a genuine moment of pity for Legolas, who doesn't get to have
mushrooms in Mirkwood since the only kind that grow there are poisonous.

Title: Grasping at
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3272> Moonbeams
Glistening · Author: Werecat
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> · Races/Places: Cross-Cultural: Post-War of the Ring · ID: 363

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-07-27 00:43:51 Score: 5
Ah, Werecat brings a welcome breath of fresh air to the Legomance, and I
think does do justice to the Bloom phenomenon (intensified to the nth degree
in the "real" Legolas). Nanwen's journey, from nightmare (death of husband,
death of patients) to fair dreams (Legolas) to reality (Beregorn) progresses
believably, and there's a great beauty in a woman who can look past a
missing leg, ravaged face and body that will never properly heal to think
she might well fall in love with the man. Proves she's wise enough to know
the difference in the end between elven glamour and something more
substantial.

Title: Defense <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2198>
Enough · Author: Nessime
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> · Races/Places: Rohan: Vignette · ID: 492

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Reviewer: Marta
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> · 2005-07-29 19:10:43 Score: 5

This story has a quality I am always glad to find: loving engaging of canon
that doesn't seem to overwhelm the story. That is, Grimbold's and Elfhelm's
reasons for how best to defend the fords are an interesting extrapolation of
the material from Unfinished Tales, so this vignette expands on the books
that I love so much, the reason I read fanfic at all. But this piece also
doesn't read like an essay; the characters respect each other but disagree,
and Nessime paints an engaging picture of how that would affect the
political discussions. This was a good read.

Title: Victories
<http://www.livejournal.com/users/talechallenge08/2119.html#cutid1> Won ·
Author: Garnet
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Reviewer: Marta
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> · 2005-07-30 00:04:12 Score: 3

This was a cute tale about Pippin's birth and new-death. (He does seem the
sort to be too excited to wait until the proper time to be born.) I
particularly liked how you recognised the PTB of the West would have placed
more than just Frodo at that juncture in history.

Title: Creatures
<http://www.livejournal.com/users/talechallenge04/8907.html#cutid1> of Habit
· Author: pipkinsweetgrass
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Reviewer: Marta
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> · 2005-07-30 10:16:58 Score: 7

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

This piece reminded me of this quote from Laurence Binyon's poem "For the
Fallen". You seemed to capture that spirit of remembering others when we are
separated from them very well, which is all the more commendable that the
person we are remembering is not someone who has died, but merely someone
from whom we are separated temporarily. (The fact that it is later extended
from Faramir to Boromir at the end makes this piece all the more poignant.)

Beyond that you do a first-rate job of writing in an underwritten space:
bothy in the journey before Moria, and in a way that reognizes Pippin's
maturity. It's really touching, and you did a great job in this short piece
of staying in the moment.

Title: Kingly <http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=2310>
Gifts · Author: Dreamflower
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Reviewer: Marta
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> · 2005-07-30 20:23:23 Score: 5

This story reminds me of why I love gapfillers so much. It reminds me of the
first time I read Lord of the Rings (not that long ago!) when everything was
new. Gapfillers like this one hypothesise a series of events that connect
the dots where Tolkien left narrative space. There are lots of moments in
here that I liked, but I think I particularly liked Legolas's and Gimli's
gifts to the hobbits, and the scene between Faramir and Eowyn back in Minas
Tirith. This was av ery enjoyable read.

Title: Life in the
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3325> Angle · Author:
Leaward
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Reviewer: sulriel
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· 2005-07-31 00:07:28 Score: 10
Delightfully delicious conflict following the Northern Ranger Tarkil and
Poppi. Tarkil returns home from the War of the Ring to ask Poppi to marry
him. Follow Poppi as she adjusts from being a simple country girl and a
barmaid, leaving Bree and moving with her new husband, who she barely knows,
to live in the hidden Dunadan village of Maple Leaf as a wife and new
mother. It quickly becomes painfully obvious that in addition to the normal
adjustments of married life. Poppi has a lot to deal with in regards to her
new neighbors, how awful to have to live across the street from your new
husbands ex-finance when he's out of town and she's up to no good. -
*really* no-good. Titheniel is deliciously malicious and exactly the kind of
villain we love to hate. Thank goodness that Tarkil’s Ranger buddies, not to
mention his brother Haldon, keep a close eye on Poppi. And what about those
twins! Talk about delicious! They are a little overly obsessive about the
babies, but who can blame them. What an introduction to Elven-kind for
Poppi, she’ll be right at home with them before she knows it.

In addition to all the conflict, Leaward shows her usual attention to
detail, both historical and canon that make her stories a delight to any
reader.

currently a work in progress - I can't wait to see the rest of it and find
out what else she's dealing with and how she handles it.




Title: Two of <http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3132>
Thirty-One · Author: Leaward
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Reviewer: sulriel
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· 2005-07-31 00:10:10 Score: 10
Leaward has a gift in telling the story that was not told, the one that
weaves between the lines of what JRR Tolkien wrote and it shows again in
this fan-fiction. The major events at Gondor and the Black Gates, during the
of the War of the Ring are central to this plot, but the very personal
perspective of her original characters flavor this tale to make it an
original. I can't stay away from my favorite two Rangers Tarkil and Haldon,
and I love how Leaward blends and contrasts the brothers and shows their
love even when they're fussing at each other.

Leaward follows Halbarad’s trials in gathering the Thirty-one men to lead
south. It seems like they would have made more of a difference staying in
the north, defending their own homes, but such men as Halbarad, Tarkil, his
brother Haldon and all the others would never shirk their duty to the
‘Captain’. And I'm glad they got to stand beside Elessar and see him
crowned. Leaward does an especially good job on this fan-fiction, as on all
of hers, in that it is keyed into her series and yet works well as a
completely stand-alone piece with a beginning, middle and end in its own
right, although I'm sure that anyone reading this one will want to pick up
the others as well. The plots are cleverly woven with each story have its
own plot and subplots yet still working into the overall arc of the series.


Title: Blossoms
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ErinRua
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7> · Books/Time: Post-Ring War: General Drabble · ID: 287
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Reviewer: Werecat
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> · 2005-07-31 11:03:01 Score: 1

A tender, heartwarming drabble. I could just see Aragorn't surprised look!
Good work, Erin!

Title: The
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3594&cid=13632> Protocol
of Princes · Author: maranya14
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0> · Genres: Humor: Drabble · ID: 26
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Reviewer: Werecat
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> · 2005-07-31 11:04:49 Score: 1

Lovely! An unexpected moment in their relationship.


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