| Date | 2008-05-19 |
| Your Favourite Story | Aearlinn |
| Requests? | please update soon |
| Message | The past few chapters are really good. Thranduill is getting to be quite a complex character. Switching between his serious and stern side and his fatherly side in an instant. Hope the new job is going well and that you are happy. |
| Date | 2008-05-18 |
| Message | Hi Ceren Cae! as always you wow with those wonderful words of praise. thank you seems so inadequate a word for how i really feel. I have been working on aearlinn and have written about 12000 words, none of which please me in the least.sorry, but a re-write is the only answer.i will be working on that today and hopefully will have energy to do so all next week as well. you'll have to exert some forgiveness my way, started a new job and have a vastly different schedule i'm trying to adjust to. i do adapt quickly, takes a bout a week to switch gears and so i feel like i'm back on track again. i am a person who needs a set routine in order to function properly. yes, i do work on Meril Thafn from time to time, and lately i've had some long scenes play out while i work out at the gym. trying to decide between stopping in with Oropher in New Greenwood or moving Legolas and Erestor right into the Severed Realms. have both scenarios running through my mind, have only put the SR one down as yet, but after this re-write of aearlinn i might be able to do so. thank you again for all your support and compliments! |
| Date | 2008-05-12 |
| Message | hi deborah, wow thank you! i originally intended to end cuthenin at the chapter where the soul-exchange takes place.that was all there was going to be. then i continued,and gradually got disappointed in how i was handling the story.especially the low key way the wood elves reacted to legolas' additional 'failure' in the pass and his inclusion in hte ring quest.so i backed off. i have about half the next chapter done, which is the same for the next feud and the next meril thafn,too. next aearlinn should be out soon, doing some revisions. thanks for your patience,just started a new job today. |
| Date | 2008-05-04 |
| Message | more great feedback! have i mentioned that i love you guys to pieces? Dawn: thank you so much. i am trying to make Thranduil a balance of parent and king, but i want him to be a more playful and mischievous Thranduil than maybe is common.someone who loves fun and games but has a limit,and once it is reached then all bets are off. i think maybe his guilt about Legolas' situation mitigates much of his anger against Elrond. Having thought Thranduil would be hostile,Elrond is now on uncertain ground and he is easily fall for whatever tricks Thranduil lays for him. stef: thank you very much! glad you like the 'extras' i've invented thus far.i hope to make Legolas' mum an interesting character, someone who strives to balance her husband's zeal and impulsiveness with steadying wisdom and insight. at the same time,her lineage is going to make it very hard for anyone in imladris to talk down to the wood elves any more. i'm working hard on the next part now. thanks again everyone ![]() |
| Date | 2008-05-03 |
| Message | Loved this last chapter so much. Thranduil can be so soft and caring sometimes, but he does it with style that a person does know what to think of him. |
| Date | 2008-05-02 |
| Message | Thank Vicky! So glad you liked it. Well, about Aras and Legolas I could say you're right and thus hide the fact that I made a big goof-up, but really I'm grateful it was found so I could fix it. I fixed that reference to Faron being the son of the eldest of Oropher's sons, so now it jives with all that stuff i ran on about making the crown pass only to the eldest son's eldest son and so on. Faron is now the son of Thranduil's youngest brother. what can i say? sometimes, i go looking for wherever i must have left my brain, only to find i left it in the pocket of my jeans, washed them, and the poor fried neurons are now stuck in the lint filter. sigh but yes there is something amiss between the two princes and you are right, it is more than the fact that Aras blames Legolas for his Adar's death. that's a substantial reason for him to be so blatant in his disparagement, though. I am going to let Aras be the antagonist now that we've corrected Erestor for the most part and the Noldorin nobles are too scared to insult Legolas any longer. ah,so glad you approve of Thranduil's restraint. he is a cunning hunter and will find numerous ways to lure Elrond into unpleasant situations, thus avenging his son's humiliation, all while being perfectly civil and courteous. ![]() And not a rambling review at all, very much on the mark and as always i am so grateful! i think you are probably right about the idea of how leadership would be passed down among immortals. |
| Date | 2008-05-02 |
| Message | Thank you for yet another wonderful chapter. I'm impressed with Thranduil. Although a part of him must want to tear Elrond limb from limb, the fact that he's managed to restrain himself and remain civil shows just how deeply he cares for Legolas and wants him to be happy. I'm also really interested by the undercurrent of hostility between Aras and Legolas. It makes me wonder whether it is simply due to the fact that Legolas survived when his father did not, or whether there is more to it. Would he feel his status as Thranduil's heir was under threat with the revelation of Legolas' survival? I must say I'm curious about the way succession works in Mirkwood, given the fact that it turns out Thranduil had an elder brother and yet the kingship passed to Thranduil rather than his brother's heir. Although I've always thought that being immortal, Elves might not have such rigidly laid down laws of succession as humans. A rambly review, I'm afraid and probably way off the mark, but it just shows how well you've brought the various cultures to life that I should think of these things and want to know more! |