Hi Geale!

Thoroughly enjoyed the story, thank you for sharing!

Among the other things, I really, really love the style! I can see why you would call it a parody, but in saying that it does ring very true to the original – or even more so to what the original itself would be based on, the official medieval chronicles. As I read I kept imagining this being written in a parchment tome by a scribe in the Gondorian library, someone who perhaps has had little direct dealing with the heroic exploits of those times, but feels nevertheless the need to embellish every other sentence with a reference to the Valar or someone’s lineage or good character. I also imagined this being read out by a herald from a scroll in the great hall, looking all serious and important, hehe.

I think it makes for quite a smooth transition from the book events, as indeed some of the action and pretty much all of romantic interactions in particular – from the point of Aragorn refusing to take Eowyn to the paths of the Dead, and all the way through to the appendices – are written in a very formal style, with all the thees and everything. Which had always made me wonder what those conversations had actually sounded like in reality. It’s cool to see it played the other way around for a change, to get an idea what our favourite scenarios would look like in Middle-earth verse.

Thank you!

Dear Geale!

The JRRT team from russian Fandom Combat 2015 would like to request your permission to translate your wonderful piece of Silmarillion sequel to Russian for russian audience.

We have done a few fic translations already, and they mostly get very positive response. We can promise also that the translation will be thoroughly beta-read. On the whole, we would like to add that we will do our best to give your fic the great treatment that it surely deserves, and will send you the links any reviews it will get.

We’re planning to post the translated version of your fic at diary.ru and ficbook.net and send you the links to the posts as soon as they are up. You can either translate them to English with google.translate, or count on our help with that!

Thank you in advance,
JRRT 2015 rus

Oh, severe case of author-forgot-to-say-thank-you! :( Buuut…

I’m glad you all enjoyed it :D I could say a lot about this piece I guess but, all in all, the only thing I’ve done is to describe your most average day in post-war Tolkien land. Most average.

Thank you so much for your lovely comments!

Oh, and raven, I cannot for the life of me understand what you are saying! To me, reading on trains has always been a perfectly respectable pastime ;)

Oh, great. Yes, I was also laughing at Aragorn’s bright remarks on the dawn. And the combination of the solemn Tolkien style with the hot subjects is so funny. It’s even Tolkien-credible most of the time. And then so many exquisite moments, ranging from Faramir’s lovely shyness (“lest he, in his turn, should to say too much”) to his surprising eagerness (“Little experience do I have in these matters…”) to Aragorn’s slyness (riding “is an art most dear to me”) or Arwen’s fear (poor girl, she should well be worried, seeing how Aragorn’s roaming expeditions usually last for decades at a time). This was the perfect fic for me tonight. So many thanks!

Oh MY WRGSTFGLXXX!!!!! I… I can´t… (takes deep breath).
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MMMkay. I think I can control it now. Weeeeeeell…. some fics are hilarious. Others are written as skillful as if the master himself had wielded the quill. Still others are red hot as the smoldering temptation itself. And then there is this one. The three-in-one, so to say. I was giggling over sentences like ““And so the Sun rises anew and the day is dawning,” he said, and all nodded for they knew he spoke truthfully.”, I was delighted by the wonderful way you have with words. I was writhing with, err, pleasure, when I realized, that even a parody, when done by a master, can be incredibly sexy (and please note that, against all common sense, I read it on the train). So many tiny details, so many hidden hints, that make the whole – Haha, indeed Aragorn has a fondness for, err, “riding”! Yeeeees, Arwen and the lady of Rohan have a lot to talk about… XD

I can´t thank you enough for lighting up my day by posting this gem! There is no doubt Professor Tolkien would have appreciated your writing skills – even though I´m not sure he would have fully understood the rather, cough, modern, cough, parts of the story…

Thank you for this until the fifth age! May your genius never cool down!!!

This is such a fine read! Loved it :)

Interesting way to write ;)
Seems familiar in a way ;)