This is a great story. Complex and difficult to read, in the best of all possible ways. Elwing? Crazy as a bag of cats! I read the other reviews here and found “heartbreaking” was a common response. My heart breaks for Elros and for Elrond also, for totally different reasons. My heart does not break for Elwing.
I admit to finding the canon story one of the most annoying ones in all of canon. And Elwing not a very sympathic character. Contrast it with Sophie’s Choice, for example. Discussing this over the years, I have found that the majority of mothers find Elwing’s choice hard to swallow, myself included. I find the stories which try to motivate Elwing’s choice as palatable unsatisfying with perhaps one exception, Darth Fingon’s Blood as Warm as a Bird (http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter_view.cfm?stid=7745&spordinal=1) is a valiant effort that almost makes me sympathize, at least to suspend my repugnance for a moment. This version is thought-provoking and far more realistic for me than the canon version.
Where is the Silmaril anyway? My question too.
Faeleth is a great OC and very canon actually, despite the AU storyline. Followers of the Feanorians,, who had managed to justify everything up to that point, did desert in significant numbers at the Havens of Sirion.
I do wish I knew more, but I respect the artistic choice to leave us with a bundle of questions. Unlike others, I rather like the way you left it. Very nice work. The descriptions and the characterizations throughout are compelling.
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Date: 2014-03-05 08:31 pm (UTC)I admit to finding the canon story one of the most annoying ones in all of canon. And Elwing not a very sympathic character. Contrast it with Sophie’s Choice, for example. Discussing this over the years, I have found that the majority of mothers find Elwing’s choice hard to swallow, myself included. I find the stories which try to motivate Elwing’s choice as palatable unsatisfying with perhaps one exception, Darth Fingon’s Blood as Warm as a Bird (http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter_view.cfm?stid=7745&spordinal=1) is a valiant effort that almost makes me sympathize, at least to suspend my repugnance for a moment. This version is thought-provoking and far more realistic for me than the canon version.
Where is the Silmaril anyway? My question too.
Faeleth is a great OC and very canon actually, despite the AU storyline. Followers of the Feanorians,, who had managed to justify everything up to that point, did desert in significant numbers at the Havens of Sirion.
I do wish I knew more, but I respect the artistic choice to leave us with a bundle of questions. Unlike others, I rather like the way you left it. Very nice work. The descriptions and the characterizations throughout are compelling.