I love this. It helped in a way to make me want to read more fanfiction. By the way I read this on a different site. It was with green writing instead. You have made the Elder Days much more realistic and scarier. It is darker which is a good thing.

This is a different way to think about the Glorfindel of Rivendell. Before I always just went the way that the two Glorfindels' were the same.

Also an your site I read the prequel to this. It was so sad and tragic. Your Valinor was not a perfect utopia. I admire that you even included a type of caste system there. The Valinor in my mind is very different. The kings rule a more democratic place. The monarchy is more constitutional in a way, but the kings still have more political power than does let's say the Queen of England, or the Emperor of Japan. Your Valinor in a way reminds me o;f medieval times.

I fell in love with your version of the romance between Finrod and Amarie. It sounds so much sadder. It actually made me want to cry. I am not kidding there, and I usually don't cry about things.

Well, do you think you could write more Finrod stories?

Thank you for an excellent story. I look forward to the next chapter.

I've just got a couple of questions:

How does Glorfindel know any Sindarin, if he's just come from Aman?

Is Glorfindel a vegetarian, or is it just fowl, beef and pork that he won't eat? If he ate no meat, why had he used his knife to kill a goat?

You could do with a marker where the scene changes mid-chapter eg in chapter 5 after Fingon swims with Maedhros, and in chapter 8 between Glorfindel falling asleep on the bearskin rug with Fingon, and waking. Also in chapter 8 where the scene changes from Barad Eithel to Lailaniel's house

Wow, this is such a different view of the characters! It's very refreshing and some of the rivalry is just priceless. Please continue, I'm desperate to know what happens next :)

After 6 years of being a total hobbit person, you practically singlehandedly (along with Fiondil's Elf Interrupted) have turned me into a elf person. While I have followed your adventures of poor Elladan for a few years now (I still laugh when I think of the line "we are killing orcs and stealing their wallets"; I love these newer stories. You have made me care about these characters; however, the warped view of them you write will probably having me permanently confused as to their real character. I guess I had better go back and finish the Sil and UT.

This is excellent. Really. So good, in fact, that if you took out the canon characters it could stand equally well on its own as an original story. "Never Speak Nor Sing" is character assasination of the finest calibre.

The only thing that could make me happier is if you updated "The Old Ways" and "Dream A Bitter Style" on the Henneth Annun archive.

Please? Pretty please? You see, I really, really want to find out if Glorfindel gets out in one piece from... well, I can't say anymore in case I spoil potential readers.

Thanks for writing this.

Oh, Homer . . . why?

Leave it to you to say that about a sublimely crafted story of human (Eldar) intrigue. I don't think you'd recognise a good piece of literature if it came up and said "mae govannen" really loudly and slowly.

Just read it. You may not like the people or what they are doing, but you might learn a bit about plot, character and writing in general. You might even grow to care about the protagonists, as flawed as they are.

Get past the agenda, would you? It's about quality, not morals and politics.

Nice work, Claudio. This made a First Age fan out of me, where I was not before.

*sigh*

Why?