B2MEM 2012, Day 2 - This Year, Next Year, Sometime, Never

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 0-72 for "we" (deep thoughts); "Feanor: Savior of Middle-earth" (Feanatics); and "Elanor Gamgee" (Women of Arda)
Format: prose short story (1,058 + notes)
Genre: character study
Rating: General
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Elanor, Feanor
Pairings: Elanor/Fastred, Feanor/Nerdanel
Summary: Elanor's thoughts just before her wedding, on life, her place in it, and certain similarities to a legend of the past.
Beta: just_ann_now, ellynn_ithilwen, and dreamflower02

This Year, Next Year, Sometime, Never

Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

This was delightful. Very well realized characters.

- Erulisse (one L)

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[febobe.livejournal.com]

A gorgeous and wrenching fic. I can totally picture this.

*shivers*

Amazing.

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

Yours and Engarian's comments have me smiling like a mad smiling thing. I didn't think it was possible to please both hobbit- and Silm-fans in the same story. I am really pleased that you like it.

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

Elanor is a Feanor/Nerdanel fangirl. I LOVE IT. :D

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

This is really lovely. You tie the worlds of the Shire and Silm together so well; there's a wonderful sense of Elanor's sense of history, both of her family and of Arda. The details about the house and the old book and her things from childhood were great. I love how you make the connection between her and Feanor. Your Elanor is such a wise, insightful and adventurous young woman--truly a daughter that Sam can be proud of.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Somehow I thought you'd approve! And yes. Yes, she is.

[telperion1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I have always been a closet Elanor fangirl, partly because she seems so perceptive when we see her in the Epilogue - this was a minor character demanding to be fleshed out if ever there was one. I'm glad you liked her.

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Your Elanor is lovely, and I adored the connection between the Shire and Aman you made so easily. Wonderful work. :)