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Msg# 9417

MEFA Reviews for Thursday, September 4, 2008 (Part One) Posted by annmarwalk September 04, 2008 - 21:27:10 Topic ID# 9417
Title: The Librarian · Author: Jay of Lasgalen · Races: Elves: Family
· ID: 700
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 01:47:14
Jay, i've already babbled at you once today you must be really good at
this stuff. or else everyone else just sucks.... no you're really good
at this stuff.

readers, if you are fond of the story of beren, then you owe yourself
this read just to see what some people have to put up with as darkness
encroaches.

readers, if you like stories about thranduil raising legalos with the
help of the palace, this is the one you need to read next.

readers, fond of lit'l one stories,,,this is it.

readers, you like that eyebrow raising thing that people in charge
like to do to make you think they know more then they do?

this story cover so many minor issues and just keeps finding one more
way to send that eyebrow twitching. elrond may need to contact a
plastic surgeon to recover from this but i hope that most of the
stitches will fall out on their own once you can quit laughing about
the antics of our hero.

i can not imagine where some of you authors leave your imaginations to
graze but i do know that i hope its been a good year there and that
there is plenty more for you fertile minded people to gather up and
process so that we lesser endowed may continue to feed of the output
of your brains.

and then you find the one way to get thranduil back? who supplies you
with the bunny feed? these are humongous little critters.

Title: Spaces in the Heart · Author: Keiliss · Races: Elves: House of
Elrond · ID: 251
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 02:14:52
i began this category sure that i was going to struggle and fight to
find something i would enjoy, thank you for breaking that mold. i can
honestly tell you after reading your competeters and your contribution
i have put the silmarion on my list of things to pick up over the
weekend. i read it some time ago and was not all that thrilled with
it. now after so many snippets of long, long ago i think its worth
trying again.you paint a lovely scenario for what the grey havens
might be in these part of the second age. you keep ciridan the stodgy
old crust that he has been in so much of my reading. stodgy, crusty,
and white bread soft in the center. still opening his heart and home
to strays. still nursing the war wounded bacdk to battle readiness.
yes you paint a mosaic of elven culture and life.i was under the
impression that glorfindel swore to the valar to protect elrond's
house; must say i like your take on the story better. to awaken so
lost and have to find yourself, then meet such a dynamic young ( who's
truly older here) person that feels you are so wonderful must be quite
a jolt to the systems. anyway it happens, i'm looking forward to
seeing more of this pair in future works by yourself. you are a
pleasant and appealing read with very little humor but i wonder if it
is not just waiting for a more appropriate moment to appear.

Title: My Oaths I Will Keep · Author: Encaitariel · Races: Elves:
House of Finwe · ID: 298
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 04:01:58
this review puts me in a strange place, i don't agree with your basic
story line, it's wrong, he was wrong and should have made better
choices. that being said i think it is the best written piece of work
in this subcategory and i planned on giving my votes the full ten
point value. so let's start with gildor, you explain much of what has
been hazy to be about some of the portrayals i have read of the
mysterious lord of the roaming elves, i had always thought that there
was a gyspy-ish feel for this group, not understood equals easy to
write up as trouble on the hoof. given the background that you write
about here it is easier to understand why gildor sometimes seems to be
sneering at man's never too realistic attempts to overthrow sauron. he
has seen what one idealistic person can do to an entire kingdom. given
the ideals that he seems to embrace and possible embody it becomes
clearer why he does not set up his clan and simply stay in the same
spot for a while, staying means building ties and building ties mean
risking incredible hurt. by not staying in his haven he didn't have to
decide who to allow access to and who to deny. if they got there under
their own power and could build a spot for themselves in the existing
society then they must be destined to stay. he doesn't have to protect
the area, sauron does not have him on the radar. by staying in plain
sight he has kept his people out of site. thank you for enlightening
me. good luck.

Title: Out, Damn'd Spot! Out, I Say! · Author: Alassante · Races:
Elves: Noldor Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 260
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 05:23:43
Spoilers!
as a lord of the rings fan, i had no great insight into celebrimbor
until i started reading fanfic and now, after this haunting moment is
his history i find myself wandering how he managed to put it all
behind him well enough to create the rings and now as i sit here
writing this i wonder if maybe he thought that the rings would do
great good and counter balance the scale a little in his favor. i like
the fact that you don't spend much on background, you choose to
concentrate on the action in the foreground and keep people from
slipping away from the horrific activities that have lead up to this
snapshot from his life.i think that i prefer reading to movies and
television because i like to start each scene as a blank slate and let
the details or lack there of build the stage set of each. sometimes
authors try to fill in a blank spot that should be left and the story
begins to have babbling when it needs absolute shocking silence. as
rites of passage go i would list bloodletting as one that i should
like to into history, but in the warrior state that middle earth is in
there is no foreseeable end to youth losing its innocence by killing.
if theres any chance you will take request how about exploring how
this reaction ties into the creation of the rings and his discovery of
the betrayal of his trust?

Title: King Stag · Author: Jael · Races: Elves: Mirkwood Elves · ID: 86
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 05:26:59
Jael, this is the most wonderful telling of some very ancient and
revered lores of a sub-culture that often only gets small stabs taken
at them. in an all too infrequent look at thranduil's love and losses,
you give us a full and glorious ELF not a statesman, definitely not a
king, but an earth bound individual who is bound to the earth by
ancient and nearly ignored customs. you take us from a what have i
done to a universally accepted and anticapated action, and then to a
masculine challenge of i'm tougher than you are. that is in reality a
testing of worth to be offered the adulation that will make thranduil
the legend that he becomes. i enjoy the way you weave the feminine in
and out of the mix to keep it from being a rite of passage, its more a
coming home to the forest. you paint in the backdrop with gentle
strokes that encourage the forest to embrace us and let us easedrop on
moments that have remained private and solitary for yens and yens. you
wrap up the main section of the story leaving us hoping that they will
have a long and prosperous life.and then take that hope and run like a
rabbit but i am still hoping that thranduil will find a way to forfill
his oath and still get to spend some of eternity with his family.

Title: Spiced Wine On A Snowy Day · Author: Nieriel Raina · Races:
Elves: Other Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 558
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 05:53:24
Nieriel Raina, i have decided to tell the world on your platform, that
I, ME, all by myself have decided that these two need a new identity;
we're (all of us) going to call them the snipes. I HAVE DECIDED. now
that i have that off my chest. loved it the first time i read it loved
it the third time. archived it off site so i could read it when i
could not get on line (bad nancy) when reading through the list to
decide who to vote for geuss who got it hands down and i did read your
competeters and i think i fairly judged them some of them were good
but none of them was the snipes. oh these two just keep me snickering
and chuckling, i can't figure out why with all the belly laughing i do
i do not have the flatest abs in the world. wait let me gather up my
chocalate wrappers and go weigh myself again. just don't understand
they say laughing is great abs work out and these two preform so well
at your fingertips. you wind them up and let them go for it with such
grace and dignity its hard to see all the little hit marks where they
nip and each other. i must admit i side with blondie on the flavor of
our next beverage i never was big on designer taste. goes to support
my theory that potpourri is poisonous and should be banned from
existence (on a side note i thought potpourri was the swill you stuff
in sachets and leave lying around to stink people out? are you sure he
should be drinking that?) well to end this you have used the snipes
goodly and its time to let them go back to the book.. thank you for
sharing.

Title: Harmony · Author: Elwen · Races: Hobbits · ID: 195
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 06:28:43
Elwen, your story is nothing short af magnificent, but who ever helped
you write your blurp so shortchanged you that i fear for your totals.
taking part in a rather extensive discussion on how to pick what to
read and what to vote on in the most general of terms there are a lot
of people who use that blurp to decide if they are going to open a
story by an author they aren't aware of. and your blurp leaves the
first two thirds of your story unheralded. your title comes much
closer to the storyline. the idea that you present is very
creationistic in tolkien world the idea that each of us is an
individual song in the greater song of the world/ universe.... so off
to the west and even more competent healers than elrond (in his
opinion). there, i needed to tread carefully because i was walking
that thin line next the the spoiler button. your prose is not overly
wordy and you paint vey pretty word pitcures with nice clear colors
and textures. you weave the story carefully and try not to leave any
knotty problems in your wake. there's a flow and rhtym that you allow
to build and then ebb and flow as you move from descriptions to
dialoug. your story seems at times to be walking along and taking the
time to enjoy the scene and let a wounded hobbit get himself there
when he can and other times you skip and jump over the mundane issues
that would just sock the story in the clouds. thank you for sharing
such a novel expression of song.

Title: A Promise · Author: Golden · Races: Hobbits: Childhood · ID: 149
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 06:45:47
i really wish you people would quit making me cry. horrible way to
know that this is the best of the ones in your subcategory, you made
me believe and i felt the loss as if i was there. very mean of you.
but it is what makes your story the one getting points, you do the job
so well. there is nothing harder than the first loss of each and every
part of life. i say that because people might lynch me if i saythe
loss of a pet as a child is more tramatic then the loss of a family
member as a teen. each is devastang and even more so when you have
never felt that seperation before. don't get me wrong here either the
loss of the fourteenth cat was hard but one i'm older and i knew more
about the whys and wherefores, did i cry less,no. but i understood
that the afterlife is a very real possiblity. i wish you had mentioned
the story you used as a legend in the blurp because it makes
explaining things so much easier but i do not want to use the spoiler
button. i'm also glad you brought in outside help for his grief
counseling, of course i don't know if either one of them would agree
with me, (he's family after all and they are not into psychology). i
think your ending shows a deep an d profound knowledge of the healing
process. i would warn people that each healing happens at it own pace,
but pippin is generally in fast acting mode.

Title: The Best Sword Ever · Author: Linaewen · Times: Mid Third Age ·
ID: 290
Reviewer: Larner · 2008-09-04 07:00:37
Spoilers!
Once a child in Minas Tirith discussed swords and indicated the wish
to see "the best sword ever," and the man with him promised to show
him one day, should the time to reforge a particular broken sword
should come. Now that day has come, and the man who once was that
child can barely remember it, does not yet acknowledge he knows the
man....

Poignant. One can feel Aragorn's pain at the lack of recognition. Well
told.

Title: The Vault of the Dead · Author: Soledad · Genres: Mystery · ID: 103
Reviewer: Larner · 2008-09-04 07:12:37
Spoilers!
A fascinating tale in which a group of the Avari whose city lies
hidden in the White Mountain sends the request for certain of those
now dwelling within Minas Tirith to come to them. For it appears
certain from among the dead wish to communicate while it is still
possible.

A strange request; a strange journey to a strangely hidden community,
some triumphant last counsel between living and dead....

A fascinating tale, well told.

Title: A Treasured Piece of Cloth · Author: Golden · Races: Hobbits:
Family · ID: 600
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 07:13:19
Golden, two back to back you must realize that in most of my reviews i
have to worry that i will not have enough to say to get the full
credit. not a problem with yours there is so much to rave about that
the problem maybe come the two hour cutoff. i read this and thought he
was so lucky to have these freinds and family members. mine was a
second hand stuffed cow. i was told it was "gifted" to me because i
refused to let go of the leg i was eating. my only 'slightly older
aunt' (she insist that shes really not that much older then me)
decided she didn't want baby drool-led animals on her bed. besides the
steady that had gifted it to her was about to bite the dust. she'd
spotted him TALKING to another girl at school. it went away to college
with me. i know exactly what his cousin is afraid of and it does
happen. once again we have to give credit to the storyteller for
making a legend and making it believable enough that one distraught
child can see the wisdom and find it in his heart to grow and mature
for his bestest friends (especially those related to him).noted that
even without being there gandalf provided the flash in the finale. i
do wonder though if they have enough pints in minas tirith, will
anyone have the nerve to tell the story and get leggers take on the
situation? i thank you for yet another adventure in the mysterious and
wonderous world of life in translation. i often have thought that to
read you in your native language must be like sipping extra fine brandy.

Title: Legacy · Author: Raksha the Demon · Races: Men: General
Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 500
Reviewer: stefaniab · 2008-09-04 19:43:17
Spoilers!
"Legacy," written for the US Memorial Day, is a reflection for adult
Elboron on the service of his late uncle Boromir. On the anniversary
of Boromir's death, Elboron joins his father Faramir and King Elessar
to celebrate Boromir's bravery and contributions in the War of the
Ring. Elboron compares them to his own experiences as a
soldier--terrible to be sure, but nothing in comparison to the perils
faced by those of his dad's generation.

"Legacy", to me had another, unspoken, parallel--the feelings a 21st
century young American, possibly a soldier, might have when reflecting
on his/her parents or grand parents' service in the Vietnam War or,
especially, in World War II. "Legacy" is another illustration of what
I think Raksha does so well--telling stories that have multiple levels
and making us think.


Title: Philosophia to Philomythus and Misomythus · Author:
pandemonium_213 · Genres: Poetry · ID: 50
Reviewer: Jael · 2008-09-04 20:17:26
Forgive the fact that this review will be so short, but words
sometimes fail me when asked to explain my reaction to art.

Poetry in fanfiction is rare, and even rarer still is it actually
good. Yours is, and I'm in awe.

Your rhyme and meter are perfect, your metaphors and imagery sublime.
And your defense of the poetic soul in scientific knowledge moves even
this Elven primitive.

Thank you!

Title: A Taste of Home · Author: Pearl Took · Races: Hobbits:
Friendship · ID: 138
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 20:34:48
if you ever felt that merry pandered to pippin just a touch too much,
you need to meet this side of merry.

on behalf of sir pip i challenge you to kitchen knives at two oclock.
oh wait it's a quarter of four if they hurry they have time to get to
the citadel and tea with faramir. he gets much better service and
bigger cuts of the pie, he's made some long time friends in the
kitchen. you know that thanks to this prank they are going to be
offered some very unusual treats in the coming weeks as all those
people pip spoke with try and make merry what he wanted. i think they
need to plan to spend a lot of afternoons visiting the schools and
taking them 'treats'. that way they can keep the ones that come
closest and let someone else enjoy those near missed. does not every
head cook have a candied fruit recipe? how can they call themselves
master of the art if they can not make basic food like that? it just
goes to show that sam understood it years ago when he said they made
ceremonial food not regular meals. oh but the things poor pip did to
make merry happy. are you proud of all the ways you made him miss the
mark? if it hadn't been so entertaining i might have to sharpen my
wit. but it was entertaining and its one i look forward to rereading
on depressing day so thet i can get that silly grin that no one else
understands. thank you.

Title: Of Cake and Crumbs and Distant Dreams · Author: Lindelea ·
Races: Hobbits: Hurt/Comfort · ID: 688
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 20:55:36
lindelea, this was my first glimpse at this story and i commend you
for not overdoing the lesson on what is minor and what is major. you
have frodo take pippins concerns in hand and let him know that frodo's
major concern is, was, and shall always be his pippers. no matter what
the issue it is better to find someone to share it with who can give
you physical support if not emotional support, and frodo being the
hero from pip's earliest memories once more is just there. right time,
right place. no questions, no editorial comments, just pure love.

at least thats what i read in your writing, and never so clearly as
this one. i have it up in the window next to this one so i can refer
to it as i go along and never do you (frodo) cast doubts that what
ever is troubling pippin is major but you give him (me) comfort and
santucuary in the loving embrace of family, hearth and home.

and such a cute tale with in a tale. i think we need to check the
re-born list and see if they have released hans christian yet cause i
think i know his new address.

this so differs from your long works and proves that no matter the
size you have mastery of your craft and control of your keyboard.
looking forward to many many more tales in a tale. thank you.

Title: The Flute · Author: Golden · Races: Hobbits: Post-Ring War ·
ID: 150
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 21:15:25
Golden, seem like just o little while ago i was burnishing you ego, is
there no end to your abilities. this is one very nice volley of view
points and plays so well with the musical theme that is so inter woven
thru tolkiens works. the appeal of long distance communication seems
to be a multi-versial idea, and you give it a unique note.

i truly was enraptured by your beginning, the old fellow was so
concerned and caring and you carried that theme so beautifully through
out the piece. you paint a softly melancoly scene and let love and
care move us gently from locale to locale, each setting have the soft
(started to say night air, and realized you didn't specify time in the
second locale only placement) sentimental, soul-searching clime that
adds depth to the pitcure but not sadness.

you use your words to paint such great canvas' of middle earth that i
wish sometimes i could set my vision in front of other people and say
why doesn't reading give you these pitcures we read the same words but
you see nothing and i get techno-color---just one reason i prefer
words to film; i pity my younger relatives because they think jackson
got the whole thing. even he says (said) that the picking and
selecting was hard. so many gorgeous scenes and only so many hours of
viewing.

please continue to write so that the pitcures keep growing. thank you.

Title: Reparation · Author: Isabeau of Greenlea · Races: Men · ID: 296
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 21:40:13
Isabeau, i have said it so many times in choosing the one per
subcategory that i am allowing my self to give a ten vote. when i
began reading lort fics off a seach engine hunt; big time novice; i
found your work and feel in love. fortunately there are only about six
of you that it occured with, and luckily there's about twenty of them
i can vote for. your heth sublines have been wonderful, i loved the
blurpy beginnings of andrahar and boromir and really crave more of it,
your dol amroth set is great, and i think this attempt to merge them
into a meeting place is one immense challenge. the addition to brand
to the mix has opened avenues that scream for exploration and your use
of this moment is so embedded in the integrity and honor that you have
placed in all of your players. you expect your characters to have
characer and you make them toe that line, embarrassed--you won't do
that again will you? i am becoming more and more aware as i work
through the list here at mefa just how many morals and life lessons
are covered with a slim coating of fiction and sent out to find those
of us in need of the reminders. thank you for caring about the
character of your characters, it is a worth while endeavor. good luck
and please write faster.

Title: Relief · Author: Tanaqui · Races: Men: General Drabbles · ID: 446
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 22:01:08
now i feel really stupid and very silly, i read and enjoyed the lead
in to this drabble so i hit the link and read this one, moved down and
made a couple of comments. now i pull up the number read the blurp and
think this needs posted with the other nekkid gondorians. not
competing with by closer together. so i hit this link and what's the
first thing i notice, BIG button says nominee; how did i miss that sucker?

so color my little yellow kitty a bit redder, ignore the catty remarks
as posted ( i use a kitty for more then one reason).

you are such a brilliant and talented writer that before next february
i am going to be spending time with my thesarus. there must be better
words for the awe and wonder that is generated at this list of
nominated works.i do not believe any of the writers are getting tired
of the same wonderfuls and fantastics and such but i begin to wonder
if there are not so superlatives that will give me more punch for some
of you, just getting to the list should be an indication that you are
top tier but how can i say this story is less fantastic than that one,
how can i take an olympic gold medal performance and say but 1968's
was better? i'm so glad that there are so many others adding to the
scores and i hope the majority of them agree with my choices.
so many wonders i feel like a kid locked in a toy store over christmas
holidays.

look, but don't touch-- ARE YOU CRAZY i'm going to snuggle as many as
i can before they kick me out of here.

good luck and great life.

Title: Oathbreakers · Author: Thundera Tiger · Times: Late Third Age ·
ID: 470
Reviewer: Virtuella · 2008-09-04 22:15:57
This is a very insightful story with sound psychology and an
interpretation of canon which is sensitive as well as original. The
prose is immaculate and though it is heavily based on dialogue, the
story never falters. In the conversation between the brothers, this
one concrete point in time and space opens up to the wider scenario of
the struggles of the peoples of Middle-earth and skillfully places the
encounter between Aragorn and Eowyn in the context of several major
themes of the Tolkienverse. Elladan and Elrohir are eminently suited
to convey such a story line. I like this story very much indeed.

Title: Of Dreams... · Author: Avon · Races: Men: General Fixed-Length
Ficlets · ID: 7
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 22:24:10
babbling about drabbles has been one of the truly fun things i've been
doing lately but this one should be alot easier one its a double
drabble, two it's an aragorn i believe in. this is the character i
want to see win thru, this is the character that has class and couth
and should be the king....not that sometimes thing that people seem to
think was the personification of generations of breeding and battling.
i thank you for taking the time to give us this small introspective
moment that gives such depth and character to one of the most written
about member of the fellowship. it is interesting how your site page
even adds that light touch of class that light gray gives to a
gentleman's stationary. it seems i may have to do some babbling
because if i do not want to give your story away i can not say much
more about your writing style, i can not marvel over you brevity
because it is not a single. if i comment on the way he dreams i will
need that spoiler button, and i think everyone should get to read this
with a clear, clean slate so that the vast and wonderful fullness of
the piece can inspire them. you present a theory that has long been my
interpretation of aragorn and his methods of getting where he's going,
i wish more of the players that we read so often could have so
delicate a hand as yours exposing their "humanity" it's so hard to do
with elves and dwarfs but there is no politacally corrected word that
i have been exposed to yet.

Title: Scholarship · Author: Raksha the Demon · Races: Men: Steward's
Family · ID: 43
Reviewer: Virtuella · 2008-09-04 22:26:20
This is an amusing little tale that shows Faramir as a gifted father.
It is charming to imagine that his young son would confide in him on
such a delicate topic, and Faramir handles it very tactfully. The
Karmasutra reference at the end is a nice wee joke.

Title: Autumn · Author: Linda Hoyland · Races: Men: Gondor Drabbles ·
ID: 489
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 23:09:58
hi Linda i forget does your aragorn have a good singing voice cause i
foresee a rousing rendetion of "let it snow" coming in the near future.
nice, comforting images. you have once again taken one hundred or less
words and made a warm fuzzy feeling blossom in the crisp fall air.

you make the warm fuzzy even warmer by adding his favorite gal and a
little cottage ( boy what an understatement). but really if i was not
assured that he is most likely in one of his homes i could see a
little cottage some where between rivendell and the shire so they
could make little jaunts to visit family in both places. now where did
we leave the fuzzy friends that were so missing from his childhood and
ranger-days. i have often thought that once he settled down he was one
of those people who could not help adopting every stray he meets. he
is such a champion of the underdog. ( i do not see him as a cat
person, too independent for his needs.) so let's see where you can
trim five words so we can tag on.... with his dog lying near.

aren't you glad i don't ask for much? tell you what don't mess with
this perfection, i'll settle for another stand alone story with
aragorn and arwen visiting faramir and eowyn and finding a litter of
puppies for them to raise and share between the four of them. think of
the many little my pups better then yours you could play on.

thank you for giving so much pleasure to so many besides myself, i
know cause i've read the comments under other stories. you are loved.

Title: Engineering · Author: SurgicalSteel · Races: Men: Minas Tirith
· ID: 696
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-04 23:41:51
surgical, note name and date please. this is such a great stand alone
story that adds just a nice little history to a story that i adored
reading. learning more about serinde is one of the joys of reading the
works of an author who is as talented and prolific as you are. the
idea that you took a small aside in a larger tale an posted it off to
the side in more exquisite detail makes following your story easier.
you alluded to the fact that serinde had oppurtunity to doctor a young
fari before she was driven out of gondor and it is a humble little
piece that should be taking bows to a standing ovation if the support
i have seen off this list find the time and leisure to come out and
vote. given the amount of education it takes to achieve the level of
professional height, i would expect you to be able to express
yourself; given your profession i would hope you are able to translate
tech to an average intellegence; what blows me away is the artistry
and delicacy of the ballet you perform moving us from the heights of
human emotion and the depths of human despair. you make readers cry
over the losses and soar with each wind current as fate takes us on
that rollercoaster ride that is lotr. you give us a strong and
wonderful embracable woman who i would be overjoyed to have over for
dinner.

Title: The Chieftain of the Dunedain · Author: Avon · Races: Men:
Pre-Ring War Fixed-Length Ficlets · ID: 623
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-05 00:08:19
Spoilers!
Avon, you were a total unknown to me before mefa and i hope that after
mefa's i will find many more of your works they are such intense
little snippets and seem to reflect much light on some of the
characters that i like. it is so much easier to be word-y about the
characters that i enjoy. your use of a more mature halabarad makes
this moment mean just that much more. i think one of the numbers i've
seen thrown around would say the aragorn is one-sixty-fourth elf, but
never have i seen him as so elf-ish. i geuss so much of what we see of
aragorn is his expression of himself, he seems to be able to dress the
mood he wants to portray on each occasion as he approaches them but i
had never thought about it untill reading your post. i would geuss
that early in his time with the rangers it was comforting and not
deliberate flaunting that kept so many of the elven parts and pieces
close to the surface, also as halabarad spends more time with aragorn
he will become more and more an independent idea rather then an ideal.
but it may never be easy to loss that giggly little guy that was so
dear and cherished. my aragorn and from the looks of it yours too is
one of those souls who collects various relations and friends and
makes them FAMILY. he has such a giant heart that the more rooms he
fills up the more room he makes for more people. thank you for sharing
a tender ranger moment.

Title: Leaving Home · Author: annmarwalk · Races: Men: Steward's
Family · ID: 39
Reviewer: nancylea · 2008-09-05 00:42:03
if everything i read had to have deeper meanings, this story would be
in so much trouble with the pscho analizers. but since i read to enjoy
myself this story was pure mother-lode, pun not intended but not too
bad either. eowyn is grown and has found her place in life and now we
can all just follow along and wait for the laughs, she has had it with
dark and dreary, and having a child has given her new purpose in life.
jealousy is a hard thing to wrestle with and you have found a method
of grappling that let's the rest of us sit on the side lines and call
out advice to the particapate of our choice. and young elboron seems
to want to test all the choices. by giving the solution you do, you
move the oppenent into position to be a major ally and then you give
him a unexpected oppenent that he won't want to challenge (at least
not right now). i'm not sure if the authors write the blurps or not
but i think next year i may start reading them earlier. several of the
blurps i've read today just don't seem to be beneficial to attractong
readers. i know my note to self when reading and evaluating choices
seems so much more succent and i think if this is not long enough now
i may hit the button and give it to you free of charge. as luck would
have it by the time i wish you luck and long life our thousand
characters will be spend and i won't have to be the spoiler/