Seriously, despite my usual reluctance to read A/L these days (my Issues) I loved this. If that's the right phrase for something that left me sniffling into a tissue. (That, of course, is one reason for avoiding A/L in the first place - if it's good I get all over-emotional, and if it's bad I want to smack someone.)
The central image of the storm was a powerful one and cleverly used. The beginning and end may have been fairly obvious choices, but I liked your decision to set the middle part at Helm's Deep, showing Legolas's vulnerability as a contrast to him 'besting' the ranger in the first section. As for the ending, with its references back to their first meeting - with such poignancy as that, you'd have a very hard time convincing me that this wasn't a slash story. *reaches for another tissue
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Well, it might not have been quite under the three hours, but it was all written in one evening. I wrote the first section between about 6 and 7 last night, went away to do other things like watch a video, go shopping and eat, and then came back to it around midnight, finishing it around 2 - so it might have been about 3 and a half or so hours of actual sitting and writing, but with a big gap in the middle
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Elves aren't elves without an excuse to hit things. And dunedain aren't dunedain if they don't get to have a good brood every so often. A bit like a few floppy coated broody vampires actually...
Thanks. When I submitted this fic to Henneth Anun it was actually the middle chapter that several of the reviewers disliked and declined it over - they really didn't like my innocent Legolas.
I'm can't now remember where the storm metaphor had come from originally, but I'm glad you liked it.
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Mine!
*g*
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Awww, Puss. Saw Shrek 2 last night - I want Puss.
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Seriously, despite my usual reluctance to read A/L these days (my Issues) I loved this. If that's the right phrase for something that left me sniffling into a tissue. (That, of course, is one reason for avoiding A/L in the first place - if it's good I get all over-emotional, and if it's bad I want to smack someone.)
The central image of the storm was a powerful one and cleverly used. The beginning and end may have been fairly obvious choices, but I liked your decision to set the middle part at Helm's Deep, showing Legolas's vulnerability as a contrast to him 'besting' the ranger in the first section. As for the ending, with its references back to their first meeting - with such poignancy as that, you'd have a very hard time convincing me that this wasn't a slash story. *reaches for another tissue ( ... )
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I am not usually a big LOTR fic reader - but I think you've turned me!
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Glad you liked it so much.
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And then the last bit, with this line was wonderful: All the death you had seen was violence and pain. But this is death, too.
I also like how you used the storm as a metaphor.
Am off to read your other one!
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I'm can't now remember where the storm metaphor had come from originally, but I'm glad you liked it.
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