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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…
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"Move farther north," Caranthir says to her a month after the attack, gaze steady on her even as his hands continue briskly gutting fish. "There is plenty of land closer to my fortress, and my people can help protect yours if there is another attack."
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…
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I just wanted to leave a quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed this story. The romantic angle is beautiful, but your political and cultural subplots were intriguing as well. Thanks for sharing this! :)
If I have reviewed this somewhere else forgive me for repeating myself. I really love this story. Also, just wanted to let you know I borrowed a bit of your younger Elrond's personality for a ficlet I posted here (of course I mized it all up and for my own wicked purposes--please forgive me). It is a chapter (8-Forbidden Lore) in my drabble/ficket series here "It Gives A Lovely Light."
No, I don't think you've reviewed it before... thank you so much for commenting, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I read the ficlet and see the resemblance in the paragraph about him and Elros, yes. The interaction with Gil-galad was your own *smiles*. I've only written them together once, and I struggled - though I really should look through the rules and see if I could post that here. It goes from First Age through to Valinor.
Thank you, my dear, you've paid me a lovely compliment. I must go and read the rest of your series now.
I loved this story! I thought it was really great how you put in a lot of detail about culture and historical events as well as romance (though the romance was really great XD). The various forms of narration were very effective, too.
Oh wow, thank you so much for the lovely review :) This was a birthday gift originally, and was a projection of what might have happened during that final day to the people I'd been writing about in Even Quicker than Doubt -- sort of a spin off, I guess (Doubt is set at the beginning of the second age) I'm specially glad you enjoyed the historical and cultural background, because I like playing with those themes.
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