Ive had this fic in my favorites for a while but never got to read it. I just read it and i had to stop everything i was doing to finish it.

You have such a way with words, Im very impressed-you paint a beautiful picture.

that's really sweet, moving too. i've never read dark leaf, but i'm trying to find it somewhere in entirety.

anyway, back to your story. really good. keep up the good work!

This was an awsome ficlet, you surely have a way with words.

I really felt Thranduils pain, it fit in perfectly with the emotional roller coaster that is Dark Leaf-and even though it has your own twist-its still amazing.

I really need to go and read Dark Leaf to be able to understand what on Ea is going on...

I had to go back and read this one again. It's so sad and beautiful...sigh. And that's exactly what I do everytime I read it. I get to that last line and just sigh. Perhaps it's because I have not drawn a breath through the entire reading? Dunno, I'm too involved in the story to notice.


SO when do we hear more from the grieving king?

*sob* It's so sad. It makes me cry. *sniffle*

Katharine, you have written this scene so descriptively that I can picture the scene in my mind. It is very touching to think of Thranduil overcome with grief, and being held in the arms of the great Lord Celeborn. Of Galadriel willing him to be strong and live, that his little bird might also.

I can already tell I am going to have to go buy more Kleenex. You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

I'm in. I have to confess, I am new to your work. I've seen the Weeping Wraith about on other people's lists, but I've never managed to get there. However, after seeing this wonderful beginning, I've come to realize I am missing something, and will most definitely put it to the front of my pile (its a very thick pile too). This is a very promising beginning, and I think you have captured the mood wonderfully. Obviously this is going to be angsty. How can it not? But still I am delighted to see something so well conceived and following character. More please, soon.

You didn't tell me you had actually written this! You're just full of surprises, aren't you?

Wonderful!

What a wonderful tribute to "Dark Leaf". I think this will be an astounding addition to Jasta's universe...

An excellent start! Why I subject myself to these tear-jerkers, I don't know, but with the beautiful writing and the deep emotion and the wondrous story-telling (both from you and Jasta), how could I not?!

Wonderful! *sniff* Poor Thranduil... But beautifully done... Will you write more concerning Thranduil, please? :-)

*Quails, then huggles poor Thranduil* What a wonderful, elagent, SAD story!!! *Sniffles* Good work, potraying his emotions. Enough to put your poor readers in tears! Keep it up!

oh Katharine!
how do you do it! every time i read one of your tribute peices it sends my heart hurtling down a long cooridor of stunned admiration for your work!
i humbly confess that i have not read Dark Leaf... which of course, i must go read RIGHT NOW!!!!

Okay, I am geared up for the angst! Or so I tell myself. Here we go!

Oh, Kate. What a wondrous start. Poor Thranduil! I would be in utter agony if that happened to either of my children, and I would be ready to rend anything I could just to get at them. It would be so very hard to be strong in a moment like this, when it would be so much easier just to give in to the grief and die! But as long as Legolas is alive, there is hope. Ai, Valar, but we know it will be alright...eventually, but the wait is agony. Thranduil's first days and weeks, months would be a torture almost too great to bear, feeling helpless and hurting so. This is going to be a hard one to read, nin melaglar. Very hard, even though we know the outcome of it all. Or perhaps because we know the outcome of it all. Crack or shatter indeed.

Elenath sila am le!