I really enjoyed the idea that Feanor and Melian had once held converse. It seems in The Silmarillion that everyone has their place and yet as the book progresses we find a more of a mixture occuring between, elves, gods and men.

I think this story did nicely to bridge the gap between the entities in the book. And I really liked the dialogue between Feanor and Melian. It is always nice to see another side to Feanor.

Oh I love this! This made me laugh from beginning to end. It's so fun and nice to see a humorous side to Curufinwe and Tyelkormo :)

This story is very inventive and original. I love that combination. The character are realistic and charismatic as if they have been plucked out of the LOTR.

This is the first time I have come across this story, but it was a wonderful treat!

Looking forward to more.

Author's Response: Thank you for your kind words! Well, I try to aim for realism (or, realism as it adapts to Middle-Earth). I'm going to update this as soon as I can, now that my little writer's block has been cleared.

My favorite line: “’Bout time, Lazy-gut. ‘Ere!” The Dwarf tossed him a scrap of meat, which Scaldo gulped down faster than Túrin gained names.

It made me giggle my head off. I had been meaning to read more of this but my little elfling keeps stealing my computer away from me. I do love this story. I'm so curious to know what a dwarf wants with a hobbit :D

Author's Response: Heh, by the time I wrote that chapter I didn’t know what the Dwarf was up to either. I have the same problem trying to get computer time from my brothers – it is only reason I bless their x-box: frees the computer up! *coughs, trying to be modest* I like that line too; I was trying to come up with something not trite, you know, Middle-earthish, and Turin came to mind. Please take you’re time reading. I love reading your comments! : )

Lololol: like soup left on a warm stove, leaving only unpleasant globs.

I really enjoyed this. It made me giggle because I had a friend at college, fat and dumb as rocks. Scaldo reminded me of him But seriously, keep writing. This is a really cute story :)

Author's Response: You like it? Really? I started writing it "way" back when I was 14 and only just last year I decided to finish I have to admit my writing was jerkier than now. But I was proud of it. My first complete-and-posted fanfic. Ah, surely your friend couldn't be quite as dumb as Scaldo. I was afraid readers would think me morbid for striking his father with a manure cart. Glad it’s amusing. *slightly sadistic grin* Thanks so much for reading! -Kitt ; )

The portrayal of Maitimo was great! I see him like that, but then I get confused and change my mind. I'm insecure when it comes to him, but your feelings for him shone through and I loved it.

I alway like it when people can put a part of them in the story, be serious and add humor. You did that well.

I think you should continue this. I'd like to see more of them together.

Author's Response: Wow, I cannot believe another Maedhros (I’ll go with Maitimo, since you prefer it) fan actually liked this! I have to admit – as soon as I saw that there was a new review for this story, I just about wanted to sink into the ground because I wrote this so long ago and I’m super embarrassed by my first-written stories. I cannot thank you enough for this review! I read it on my birthday (the 27th) and it cheered me up so much! I’m beaming. Thank you! :D I just re-read it and I think I made it a bit confusing in some parts. I can’t change a lot of it because this was originally a dream I had, so that’s what makes it weird. I switch from thinking outside the dream and actually being a character in it. That’s also why Maitimo has brown eyes instead of his grey (I say silver) eyes. It was just that way in the dream. Aw, thanks! :) I was kind of shy and unsure about writing my feelings in, but it’s so hard NOT to love Maitimo. :) Yeah, it’s really fun mixing humor and seriousness. I can’t get too drone-y without adding Show Tunes ;). A few weeks after this was posted, I ironically dreamed of the ending to this. You know, if I die or not. I didn’t write it because it’s kinda a let down, and to go the other way…I can’t really do anything further because (other than the healing stage) nothing significant happens for hundreds of years (and we all know I can’t push much past three digits). But then again, I could always improvise…that’s always fun! Hmm, I’ll have to get back to you on that. You’ve got my creative horse a runnin’. A million thanks, Fei. :P | P.S. Oh, and I’m reading your, A The Tale of the Feantur. Ugh, it’s so strange it’s epically amazing! I love Celegorm’s and Maglor’s relationship and the thought-shots and the dialogue—it’s all so impeccable! I absolutely LOVE it! It must have been tough on the membrane to write, though…:D

As I read this I felt anticipation. I actually skipped to the end to see who this story concerned. The mounting anticipation really kept me hanging on every word.

I have considered how convienant it was for Celebrian to marry Elrond and thus uniting the two elven realms. I've often found that a bit of a flaw.

So it was refreshing to imagine that for a moment she had another lover and that the whole affair was extremely complicated. I really liked your take and the poetic flow of the piece.

Thanks for sharing :)

Author's Response: Thank you for such a lovely review. :) It was slightly tricky to avoid names the whole fic! It seemed odd to me too, especially considering her apparant ease at leaving her family. It makes you want to think of 'what ifs'! Thanks again, glad you liked it. :)

This was interesting because I had a similar discussion with my husband the other day.

I told him I feel like an outcast because I love writing fanfiction, yet I don't feel like I can share that with people I come in contact with everyday. Being a mother you are always worried what people are going to think.

My husband said to me that writing fanfiction is no different than people who are heavily into sports statistics, sewing, model railways, fashion, any form of obesession or passion or any hobby.

Your friend will no doubt have a hobby or an obsession that others might raise an eyebrow at or think boring or geeky. It's all relative.

But you really brought it home in your essay and I loved all the points you made. And books like Harry Potter borrow devices from Tolkien's own writing, hell almost every fantasy novel has borrowed his ideas.

Many of these people who write on this site, like Xfanarix could be published in my opinion. Just because it happens to fall within a predefined world really doesn't matter. It is still excellent writing regardless. But some people aren't adventurous and they want to be part of the accepted norm, even if it stifles creativity. And it does.

And I agree about the Mary-Sues. The whole name Mary-Sue pisses me off, because it's just label given by someone who wants to feel superior. People need an outlet for their writing, especially teens, and they should be allowed to express themselves in any manner they choose. Those who make fun of them are obviously childish and have an inferiority complex. I say that as a mother who nurtures a child, so should we nurture writers and support our fellow fanfiction writers.

Many of them grow and learn from the seasoned writers and produce outstanding stories. Even if they continue to write Legolas romances so what? There are no rules and if we restrict them then we are now stifling the very creativity we value.

I started by writing Mary-Sues. I still write them when the mood takes me, but I call it romance because Mary-Sue is just a stupid name. Internet speak has a lot to answer for in my opinion.

In the end, we do this for the love of it and like you said we keep the Professor's memory alive. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

There is no such thing as a purist. Tolkien is the only purist and his writing the only canon. Anything outside of what he wrote, no matter how supposedly true to the character or his ideas, is fanfiction, because we do not know if he would have agreed with our assessment of the character. I say this as one who writes mostly within the framework of his stories, but never would I have the ego to say that is canon. It is simply an interpretation and so it is with everyone else.

I hope your essay gives strength to those who waver because someone has judged them by what they write or want to write. It inspired me and I thank you for sticking up for what you believe in :DDD

Author's Response: Hi!! I'm really sorry it took so long to respond to your review, I didn't realise it was there. I must have missed the email notification; as I've said on LJ, my hotmail account's been playing up something chronic over the last few days. I'm really glad you enjoyed the essay and agreed with the points; I'm amazed at the number of people who've posted their own thoughts, both on the Round Robin and in the review section. It seems to have struck a chord, which I'm really pleased about; I thought there must be a fair few people out there who were scared of what people would think about their fanfic hobby, but you're right that it's no more geeky than sports stats or making model railways. It's something that gives us all a lot of pleasure, and we should be proud of what we do because (as Pink said in her contribution) we are all writers here - REAL writers, whatever others may say. Thank you for your review, and I'm sorry it took me so long to respond!

Poor Anna. It is just heartbreaking what she is going through, but it is really well done. I love it when I can feel for a character.

I feel like Anna is almost being haunted by Izzy. But I loved how you described her grief, though I know that sounds morbid. It felt real and not soppy like I read so many times in other stories.

Suddenly, Anna was seized by an urge to see her sister again – even if it was just in a photograph, she had to see her face. She switched on her lamp and sat up. Her hair, salty and damp from tears, clung in tendrils to her cheek as she scrabbled about in the bedside drawer for one of the few family pictures she kept in her bedroom, a snap of her, Izzy and their cousin on a beach in Spain. Having found it, she gazed hungrily at the scene, her eyes devouring the flawless blue sky and the sugar-soft sand and the smiles on everybody’s faces, but most of all they feasted on the girl in the middle, tall and slender, tanned and truly beautiful in her white bikini. And yet...something wasn’t right. Izzy. That was it. Izzy didn’t look right. Her nose was a little longer than that, surely? And her legs a little slimmer? Or maybe the picture was right, maybe Izzy had looked that way. Maybe Anna’s mind was already playing tricks on her, even after a mere matter of days, warping the image of the sister she had loved more than anybody or anything else in the world. Feeling cheated, she flung the photograph to the floor, jabbed at the switch of her lamp until it turned off and lay back down.

The description was beautiful and the need to hold onto the sister just heartbreaking. I loved that part.

Strangely I like Aldhem's imperfection. It was realistic.

Is this based on the LOTR movie plot or Tolkien's original?

I'm not sure about them leaving the mare to foal alone?

Now I'm intrigued about the blue eyes!

Loved it!

Author's Response: Thank you again! There are elements of this story that are movieverse, but I use material from the books too, so it's kind of both. And as for the foaling, I'm not a horsey person myself, so I did some reading around, but if it's not accurately written then I apologise. Any suggestions for improving it would be greatly appreciated :)

I wish I could write faster, because every single time you leave me a review I laugh so hard I am in tears. And I really needed a good laugh this week. Can I just write nonsense and have you remark? You're like taking a happy pill. *hugs you*

Of course this story is kind of psychotic nonsense.

Now for a review of your reviews. hehehe, because honestly they are more entertaining than this story.

This: “WARNING: Elf at breakfast.” My husband died laughing and he doesn't even like Elves. I am so getting a sign of that made!

Nah, Maglor's bit of fluff was never mentioned until this chapter.

ROFL! Like he’s got them facebooked or something? Kitt seriously you are funny.

Goodness! Close the Netherworld and toss out the Overlords till the second coming. But coming from him, I believe it!
Just another day at work. ;)

I couldn't deny 'Timo his grand entrance. Elf in armor always very sexy.

It makes me think of Gandalf said in TTT: I’m dangerous, you’re dangerous, we’re all dangerous.

I'm smiling again. You crazy girl.

I have to love Aidan’s order to Maglor: just go posses a body for a while. Yep. Why not?

ROFL!!!! Aidan has a weird way of looking at the world.

Action in next chapter promised.

Hugs you. LoL! I still cant believe you are reading this. Hugs you again for making me laugh.