Comments on Some Futile Hope

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How horrifying. Eeps! You capture something real I think in the idea that the tears come only as long as there is some glimmer of hope that everything is not over yet. When he realizes his situation is totally hopeless he turns numb.

It's a beginning. Are all the chapters going to be so short? Or is this an intro only? It does say a lot in 300-plus words.

Welcome to the site!

Oh, I like this chapter. They are developing nicely. I want to get to know them better. I love the pretty Elrond and macho Gil-galad and am loving Glorfindel's POV. He is a great point of view character, observant and not too lost in his own head.

Elrond's hair reminds me a lot of Elrond in Keiliss's Even Quicker Than Doubt. Have you read that one? It's one of my favorites and stands the test of time for me.

Enjoying this so much. I am always a real sucker for a good Elrond/Gil-galad story.

I always admire writers who are able to people their world with a good number of OCs--although I do enjoy reading about the major characters I love so much. As fanfic writers, we seek to deeper and embellish the basic skeleton of the canon, and it is hard to be effective at doing that without adding some additional people. Tolkien only mentions the most outstanding ones. I always feel just the opposite, like I do not include enough secondary characters in my stories. (Naming them always stumps me!)

Still really enjoying this. Squirming in my seat to know where you are going the amount of UST that poor Glorfindel is suffering at the moment.

I thought the "yellow flower" references were conscious. Yellow is a color I would more often associate with flowers than golden, despite Wordswoth's "host of golden daffodils!" I think I can forgive you the license in light of how much fun I am having with the story. What a way to end a chapter!