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Erestor lay up against a tree, brown washed to black in the wet of the snow. The black disc of the new moon sailed across the dark sky. Erestor wished it were gone. He had no need to look into dark eyes any longer.
He was dying.
(AKA Erestor unwittingly travels back in time to the…
Fëanor shrugged, studying the contents of his wine glass. “Something must be done about that house. It will fall down eventually.” “It does not follow that it must be you that tears it down single-handedly. Are you sure you do not want help?” “It’s not as though I…
This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
Concerned by his responses to the paraphernalia of healing, Fingon steals Maedhros from his room for an impromptu garden excursion. Maedhros battles with dark thoughts.
Rescued from a brutal Angband hunt, an ex-thrall with a strange and powerful artifact embedded in his spine is brought to Himring, for it is one of the only places in Beleriand which welcomes such folk. Though he has no memories of his life before, Anniavas slowly becomes accustomed to his new…
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In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Bilbo, the strange old hobbit with the wandering feet, senses something special in young Frodo the first time he sees the lad; as they become close, they find in each other a cameraderie not well understood by other hobbits. Five poignant moments between Bilbo and Frodo Baggins over the course…
A Chieftain is dead. And whilst the events surrounding his death are unclear, a son tries to come to terms with his loss.
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Yes! I've been slowly uploading a story a day to SWG from my other accounts, and of the stories about the Bór I've written five in total, and have ideas and inspiration for more. The next one in the series does involve Kreka's family reaching the Isle of Balar, meeting some of the Host of the Valar on the way, and the fifth is a small piece of a much larger narrative about the overall War of Wrath.
Desperation and the existence of a large number of outlaws wandering Beleriand gave me a possibly answer for who, aside from fanatically loyal servants, would still be following the Fëanorians after their repeated sacks of other elven (and mortal) settlements. Nobody decent would accept them, so they band together. The quote about how Morgoth considered the Oath and Kinslayers never a threat and always an aid to him, even if they didn't always realize it - blind or just too far fallen to admit how fallen and trapped by pride and Oath and terrible past choices- sums up my approach to them with pity (never sympathy) that mixes in with all the disgust. But yes, that Kreka and her people are better off for finally cutting their ties.
Hello, I am strucked by the answers to my little poor reviews!
There are two reasons for me, to review, once, to honor the author of a ( in my opinion) good story, and, I am always curious about getting the right message.
Okay, on this platform there aren't REALLY much of my reviews, but I just started reading for about a year, and there are other communities and sides I am watching ( and reading).
But seldom received an answer so promptly, extensive and kind, if I get one at all!
I try to answer most of my reviews - what few I do receive ;) - especially if a reader is kind enough to spend the time writing more than one or two statements.
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