Well, if you insist on criticism: "Himland" in ch. 3 should be "Himlad." That's it.

I'm yet another person who loves this story to pieces, but so far I don't have much to add. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it . . .

I like how real you portrayed the emotions. Its realistic, fits into the world better then some of the other stories I've read, is well-written and it still makes me think about how cute a couple they are! ^_^ Wonderful story!

Oh how I adore this. It's so subtle. All that suppressed desire and misunderstanding.

And yet it's humerous at the same time - "the Duelling swords of Glorfindel and Ecthelion" indeed!

you think you still need constructive criticism?

i think this is great! (not even my most critical orc found something to grumble about)

This was great! I loved it to pieces. Romantic and funny! And I loved those comments on Maedhros and Fingon...

P.S.: the songs were hilarious!

oh whoa... i REALLY want to listen to "where is his other hand?" if you wrote the lyrics i'd love you forever! :D

Awesome! I like this story!

That was great! Spitting Elves, Glorfindel reciting the names of the places in Gondolin, and hot elf-slash that is well-written. What more could someone ask for?

I had the greatest joy to read your story which was highly recommended to me! Your style is wonderfully smug, yet so enchanting. And I marvelled at the sharp view on so small aspects as the poor drowning spiders , not to mention the “Athrabeth Glorfindel ah Ecthelion”. A very interesting discussion about desires and the question about what really is natural - I liked it a lot!
Liriel

dont mind me...just forgot to put this on my Favorite stories list when i read it..so i had to leave review...

Alright, I just wrote you a really long review, showering praise on you, and THEN decided to sign in, which of course erased my review. Lovely. So I'll summarize.

Humor: Perfect. Dry, witty, sharp, and uncliched. "Where Is His Other Hand?" LOL. I'm a huge Maedhros fan, so I loved how they seemed to hold Maedhros and Fingon as their patron slash saints. Haha. "I almost had a Fiwian cousin moment." Lol. Great stuff.

Characterization: You made me love them. Both of them. And even Eglamoth and his brightly colored outfits. That's the thing about romance: your audience has to want the characters to end up together, so they have really come to love them. You did a wonderful job with them.

This story is fantastic. I loved every moment of it. When countless, idiodic fangirls ask me WHY I read slash, I'll just have to show them this.

Just finished reading this!

Once again, it was amazingly good. I loved the quiet humor present, and the smut scene. I'm not really sure what else to say, but it had that undefineable quality...I'm not sure how to put this...it's one of those stories that one could read over and over again without ever getting tired of it. I know I certainly will. I wish I could give more concrit, but I honestly can't think of anything remotely constructive to say. Well, just dismiss me as being one of you admirers who simply give you mindless praise. ;)

Thank you so much for writing this. Please keep writing!

-Sarah

*cries*

Why are absolutely wonderful, well-researched, canonically accurate fanfics like yours virtually ignored (no offense), while rubbishy OOC Legolas/Mary-Sue fics are lapped up by the fangirl masses?

I've only read the first chapter of your fic, but I adore it. You are absolutely brilliant. I wish I could give a more coherent analysis of your works, but that's all I can say at the moment. Can't wait to read the rest!

Your newest fangirl,
Sarah

So I read through - breezed through - Flawed and Fair yet again. It's different when you're not waiting for the next chapter update even as you finish a current one. And now my brain has gone on its weekend vacation, thus making it difficult to say everything I think deserves to be said, but here I am. One of the first things to say is that ff.net genre slots do no justice to stories like this. It's really a dramatic romance, or a romantic drama - oh, and of course there is action/adventure! - told with brilliant insight and flashes of punchy, well-pitched, informed wit. And the comedic effect is exactly the kind that any writer ought to study for precisely this reason - neither sitcommish nor caricaturish (well, except where the Ekfelion and Bianca shine through :D) nor purely derived from wordplay and stylistic devices. It is the wonder and charming cleverness of twisted angles and sleight-of hand, humour internal to the story. And this is Silmfic. Behold, all ye who enter here, it can be done!

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Then the characterisation. To expand on the point of caricature - I adore how you haven't indulged in it. Ordinarily one forgives, and indeed expects comedy to make characters behave OOC (to good purpose), outlandish and, well, silly. Not so here. F&F has some of the best characterisation and atmosphere I have read at all. The unbearable lightness of Glorfindel, Ecthelion, uptight and unhappy and yet so competent, so kind, so alert to others. *Turgon* - oh, the perfection of Turgon! Exactly as I would imagine him to be!! Right down to the minor characters, this works as characterisation should work, a subtle nuance, a shift in PoV, and the character is revealed in a line or two. Its easy to miss the profundity of the dialogue, too, or rather, to skim through it in search of the laughs, but its there, and appreciably blended to make one really stop and think about the fundamental conflict of duty and desire (and come to think of it, the Symposium offers a way out that is almost too easy, which is mimicked nicely by the last chapter, isn't it? Not that it jars or anything, the climax is very nicely unfolded.) while jabbing a metaphorical finger at Ekfel's head and telling him to shut up and kiss the boy.

And then all the clevernesses of the writing, which I really can't list here. You'll be interested to know that this time, I fell over laughing at the Ekthelion-Salgant exchange in the last chapter. And the use of the word "slashing" in Egalmoth's orc ditty. I is on to you, Tekfa, I is. In conclusion: I'm all for Ecthel/Glor for President. Or you. Or them. But not Salgant. [/blather] I love this thank you very much plzkbye! :)

Tehta, you know I have not said this before, but, really. You are A GENIUS (with all the capital letters).

Coherent review when coherent. I apologize. Love your people too much.