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Title: Split <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=477>
Second · Author: Aralanthiriel
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5> · Genres: Movie-verse: Vignette · ID: 662
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-15 21:02:12 Score: 2
A movie-verse vignette, based on the scene in the snow, when Boromir picks
up the Ring: his thoughts are more chilling than the setting.

Title: Abrecan <http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=3053>
· Author: Rhapsody
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Reviewer: sulriel
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· 2005-08-15 21:06:45 Score: 3
This is one of my favorite tales, you know I have a weakness for stories
that show the bond and the relationship between a rider and his horse. Mares
can be especially, ...well, 'marish', and you captured that very well with
her catch me if you can attitude.

Title: Captain of the
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=3665> Guard · Author:
Arandil
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9> · Genres: Drama (includes Angst): Mirkwood · ID: 119
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-15 21:14:27 Score: 2
An interesting gap-filler for both The Hobbit and LotR, dealing with both
the escape of Bilbo and the Dwarves, and of Gollum. Very well-written.

Title: Duet <http://www.lightindarkplaces.net/DuetIndex.html> · Author:
Aratlithiel
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1> · Books/Time: Post-Ring War: Gap-Filler · ID: 886
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-15 21:16:51 Score: 4
This was the first piece I ever read that truly moved me to tears; it still
does. The grief expressed by the two cousins is so deep, and so rich and so
filled with the love they still have for the absent Frodo. To know how
bereft they now are without him in their lives is so beautifully painful.
These two vignettes are a powerful and emotional experience. I have seldom
seen grief so well expressed.

Title: La Belle Dame
<http://www.quillsandink.com/fiction/viewstory.php?sid=1> Sans Merci ·
Author: sindohte
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> · Genres: Drama (includes Angst): Incomplete · ID: 1291

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Reviewer: jillian
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baade · 2005-08-16 00:42:01 Score: 7
This is such an original idea. The whole bit of the Ring being called
Isildur's Bane or Precious makes sense of the way she ensares people. Always
men too, Galadriel resisted. The mean, the names given the Ring do suggest a
personality, a life of it's own, and to have a spirit attached to the Ring
explains this nicely.

I'd also never considered how Sauron made the Ring. Of course, the Dwarves
would be the perfect craftmasters to learn from! Sauron's memories of Aule
are also brilliant; I'd never considered that Aule didn't think to animate
the Dwarves, not that he couldn't.

One last comment. The Ring appearing to all Isildur's heirs and trying to
corrupt each generation is so good. As is the fact she seduced Gil-Galad and
was responsible for the radiance that gave him his name. I can't wait to see
what happens next!


Title: Wisdom's <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=451>
Thrall · Author: Mouse
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6> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: First Age · ID: 1011
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:11:48 Score: 4
Tuor clings to some semblance of sanity by a thread, and one can see why.
He's so confined, so shuttered off and nearly beaten, he can hardly breathe
in the first chapter. The story of his gradual awakening to the fact that he
has still a will of his own and the means to act lead to his escape, half on
a kind of quasi-instinct, half on a sense that if he stays too long, when
he's only just managed to remember how to love another human being, he'll
simply go mad, is an interesting one.

Title: Shards of
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=4003> Memory ·
Author: Ellisande
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1> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Gondolin · ID: 1007
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:12:17 Score: 3
Finduilas has never been a particular interest of mine, but Ellisande writes
her beautifully. Even if I find I can't be drawn into the story, it's still
a lovely piece of writing that comes far closer than I'd have expected to
making me feel something for Finduilas.

Title: Shining <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2453>
Black · Author: Salsify
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4> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Gondolin · ID: 996
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:12:50 Score: 6
Salsify does an excellent job in finding an entirely plausible rereading of
Eöl's tale, in all its bitterness and darkness, and showing a man who isn't
the villain we take him for. The entire situation becomes a much more grey
and complicated one, as prejudice works its ugly deeds and drives Eöl,
Aredhel, Curufin, and the Elves of Gondolin to a completely untenable
position. Eöl becomes a sort of aggressive Job figure, with every insult
heaped on his head for no reason he can discern, unless it's the taint of
Noldorin arrogance, and he's not entirely wrong. You feel for him as you
likely never did reading this version of his story, and I appreciated that.
Well done, Salsify! Another brilliant, bitingly ironic story!

Title: Shadow <http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2168019/1/> · Author: Celebsul
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9> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: First Age · ID: 775
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:14:54 Score: 2
Hm. Very interesting confrontation. It's the end that gives the pay-off, the
realization that Morgoth's fall will not undo the hurt of the world, and
that that being so, darkness can claim anyone, including an Elf of Valinor.

Title: Saying <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=159>
Farewell · Author: Finch
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4> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion · ID: 730
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:17:13 Score: 2
Bittersweet, as one would expect since this isn't labeled an AU. I loved
this: "Almost. One of the saddest words of Arda Marred." That sums up the
story, doesn't it?

Title: Melyanna <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=593>
· Author: Finch
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4> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 729
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:18:44 Score: 3
The idolator in Thingol may puzzle Melian, but I rather wonder whether she
shouldn't have caught a glimpse of that in the way he adored his daughter.
Nevertheless, Melian is wise enough to see at least the ultimate futility of
such love as he has for the Silmarils.

Title: The City of
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterlistview.asp?SID=2855> Stone · Author:
Elvenesse
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> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 717

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:19:17 Score: 4
Nice bookends, these two poems. Aredhel's defiance is caught in that last
line of the first sonnet, as she determines that evil shall not confine her
to any prison, and her hard-won experience of the way love and hatred, good
and evil, are inextricably bound up together is the substance of the second.
One wonders whether she would've seen Gondolin differently, in those same,
explicit terms, if she had lived.

Title: Foreshadowing
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=1588> · Author:
Zimraphel
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9> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Second Age · ID: 610
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:19:41 Score: 7
Zimraphel could as easily have called this story "Foreboding" and been just
as right, for it certainly has a nice strand of darkness and anxiety flowing
though it. Inziladûn's visions, and the grief and fear that they subject him
to, being often of dark things, are portrayed very well here through they
eyes of a young Míriel. The little family drama—of a lost mother, of
ill-mannered cousin Calion, and a child's too-observant ways—opens onto the
darker court dramas and ideological fissures of Númenor just prior to the
Downfall. Zimraphel's usual skill at crafting believable characterizations
in short spaces is once again in evidence and gives us a beautiful, if
tragic, image of a father and his daughter, both of them in the path of a
storm that will eventually devour all their dreams.

Title: Sirion <http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2551>
· Author: Wild
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7> Iris · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 607
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:20:18 Score: 2
A bleak sort of exhaustion comes through this one, hammered home by the
repetition of the act of giving the dead to the sea, and finishing up, after
the lyricism, with the simple fact that now the survivors must walk long and
far to find water.

Title: The Dead
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2920> City · Author:
Wild
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7> Iris · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 606
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:20:43 Score: 2
There's a slightly eerie feel to this, which is wholly appropriate to the
subject matter. I like the image of the wild things and stone claiming their
mastery of the city, which has no one now to defend even the ivy growing
wildly.

Title: High King and <http://www.freewebs.com/aure/highkingandhalfling.htm>
Halfling · Author: Marta
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> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Drabble · ID: 581

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:21:09 Score: 3
Ah, the persistence of hobbits! No wonder Gandalf thinks it indispensable
for a wizard to have a hobbit or two in his company—they'll keep him
suitably challenged with their tenacity, as Argeleb discovered. And for
people in power, not to get their way the whole time but be confronted with
the proverbial brick wall is a good thing.

Title: The
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/challenge/chapter_view.cfm?NGID=166&STID=3864&
SPOrdinal=1> Tale of Isildur · Author: Tanaqui
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> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 550

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:21:33 Score: 4
I quite liked this as a highly stylized retelling and filling in of the
minimal tale in "The Silmarillion". One imagines there must've been many
songs about the stealing of the fruit of Nimloth that were popular
underground hits among the Faithful, and that they'd have grown bolder in
naming their hero in such songs once they no longer had to worry about the
King's Men harrassing them in Middle-earth.

Title: The
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/challenge/chapter_view.cfm?STID=3258&NGID=169&
SPOrdinal=3> Death of Glaurung · Author: Tanaqui
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> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Poetry · ID: 533

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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:22:11 Score: 3
Cleverly turned phrasing in this poem; I'm not sure the words "uplifting"
and "Túrin' are capable of being said in the same sentence, unless there's a
negation of one or the other, so I find this quite well matched to (and
happily much shorter than) to the original story.

Title: House of Dust and Memory <http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1864382/1/> ·
Author: Itarille
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7> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Feanor and Sons · ID: 523
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:22:42 Score: 6
This seems a very plausible meeting to me. The edginess and discomfort that
comes of two very different personalities confronting each other is only
compounded by grief they are too acutely aware that they share across the
gulf of their particular manners and ways of looking at matters. The wife of
a murdered man and the wife and mother of Kin-slayers desperately need
comfort they can only give each other, but Itarille captures the difficulty
of even finding the means to express it without insult, without rubbing
something raw. She also returns to the elemental truth that neither Indis
nor Nerdanel will grieve forever for "This is life, and there is nothing to
do but accept it."


Title: Forsaken
<http://www.tolkienfanfiction.com/Story_Read_Chapter.php?CHid=1144> Kin ·
Author: Meril
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3> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Drabble · ID: 483
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:23:22 Score: 2
Interesting that Finarfin's decision stems as much from a desire to forcibly
spare his wife blood on her hands as from a personal abhorrence of blood on
his own hands.

Title: Wreath of Steel
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=166> and Silver ·
Author: Kielle
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7> · Books/Time: The Silmarillion: Feanor and Sons · ID: 454
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Reviewer: Dwimordene
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· 2005-08-16 01:23:50 Score: 7
Galadriel is also not my favorite character, but Kielle does justice to her,
in all her complexity and turbulent history. Like Deborah Judge's excellent
Elrond fics, this story is preeminently a story about forgiveness, and
forgiving oneself, but it differs in its ambiguous end. Galadriel keeps
herself and keeps her secrets; we cannot say from the reddened water of the
mirror, which shows her that she blames herself still for the death of her
Teleri cousin, whether she has passed this final test of spiritual maturity
and learned to strike the fine balance between respectful repentance and
forgiving oneself. Moreover, I think the story would be lessened if it were
made too clear—Galadriel is before all else a figure of enigma, and it seems
fitting that she remain in some sense closed to us, perhaps especially after
so intimate a glimpse.

Title: Bed
<http://www.livejournal.com/users/blackbird_song/1449.html#cutid1> Time,
Part 2 · Author: Blackbirdsong
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-16 04:57:36 Score: 1
Very poignant and believable.

Title: Departing
<http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=2606> · Author:
Celandine
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3> Brandybuck · Books/Time: Post-Ring War: Final Partings · ID: 183
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-16 04:59:02 Score: 3
This is the first fic I have ever seen dealing with the journey of Legolas
and Gimli to the West that included other Elves. Most of them have the two
of them travelling by themselves. Yet this story makes it seem logical and
fitting that other Elves went with them. Nicely done.

Title: Farewell
<http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=1887&cid=9416> · Author:
Forodwaith
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> · Books/Time: Post-Ring War: Final Partings · ID: 362

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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-16 04:59:34 Score: 2
Gandalf's task is finished, Radagast's is not. An interesting contrast
between the two wizards and their missions in Arda.

Title: Sunstar
<http://www.west-of-the-moon.net/servlet/ReadGenStory?storyID=138> ·
Author: illyria-pffyffin
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3> · Books/Time: Post-Ring War: Final Partings · ID: 705
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Reviewer: Dreamflower
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5> · 2005-08-16 05:00:48 Score: 2
Sam's acceptance of the Gift of Passage after Rose's death--how did he
decide to go on to the West, and how did his children feel about it?


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