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Reviews For: Playing

bean 2007-12-03 ch 1, anon.	abuseThis was a very good fanfiction! I enjoyed it a lot! I can totally see little Adaon trying to play that big harp just like his father. :) You did an excellent job! Now, as a side note, I'm concerned about you, and about anyone who will read this review. Have you ever thought about what will happen to you after you die? I want to warn you that hell is real. But so is heaven! I'm a baptist, born-again Christian, and I believe that everyone is a sinner. The Bible says "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." We've all done something wrong, including me and you, and the Bible tells us that sin cannot get into heaven. Because of our sin, we deserve to go to hell when we die, and that's where everyone will go if they do nothing about it. But the Bible also says that there is one way to get to heaven! Being a good person or doing good works won't get you there, but you can go to heaven after you die if you go through Jesus. Jesus is God's perfect Son who came down to earth and he died on the cross for the whole world's sins. The Bible says "For the wages (payment) of sin is death", so we deserve to die for our sins. But Jesus died in our place! And then he rose again and returned to heaven! The Bible says that "the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." You can go to heaven when you die if you will realize that you have sinned (done wrong things), ask God to forgive your sins, believe that Jesus is God's Son who died for you, and ask Jesus to save you. If you do this, Jesus will come into your life and live there, and you will be able to go to heaven when you die! I'm not forcing you to do anything, and I'm not trying to shove anything in your face. The choice is up to you, but I'm here to tell you that when you die you will go to heaven or hell. The choice is yours. I hope you will chose Jesus! You'll never regret it if you do. God bless!
Ladyofthebookworms 2007-07-20 ch 1,	abuseAw, sweetness itself!
adaon45 2007-07-19 ch 1,	abuseWell, I know that I’ve already had the pleasure of commenting on this in draft, but I thought I’d record some of those responses—and a few more—for the permanent record. And I must say your detailed reviews are such models of the genre that I would like to do my best to emulate them! Thank you, by the way, for the thanks you give me in your note at the end. I must say the inspiration goes both ways; as you know, “Fading Summer” really influenced me to try my hand at fanfiction. In particular, your portrait of the Adaon/Taliesin relationship in the second part of that story shaped my portrayal of the father/son bond in my stories. What I love about your depiction of father and son here, as in “Fading Summer,” is the way you emphasize both the love between the two AND the mutual respect. Obviously, Adaon is a lot younger in this story than he is when we meet him in canon (isn’t it fun to imagine a little boy Adaon?), but that level of respect between two artists is already present. Little boy though he is, Adaon is already a musician-in-training, and I really love the representation of Taliesin as music instructor. Both Adaon’s Mozartian-prodigy talent is in evidence and his stick-to-itness. He’s very diligent, and we can already see that famous stubbornness in action, as he tries to make the instrument, and his own fingers, do what he wants them to. What a lovely, delicate portrayal of Taliesin teaching his little son; one can learn so much about someone based on how he/she deals with children. Taliesin is every bit as patient as I’d expect him to be, as well as impressed at his son’s unusual expertise. I really love the part where he reminds himself not to get his expectations up of other children. I also love the way Taliesin repeats his son’s mistakes to show him how hard it would be to play with only two fingers. It says a lot about Taliesin’s character that he wouldn’t mind playing imperfectly himself in order to reassure his son, who is already displaying, in addition to stubbornness, that perfectionist tendency I’ve sensed as an inherent aspect of his character. Like CompanionWanderer, I love the detail of Taliesin looking at his son through the strings of the harp and also think it an apt symbol for the artist-vision that the Chief Bard embodies. Details are a lot of fun: I love the description of Adaon as “raven-haired,” and, like CompanionWanderer, I love the description of the Fair Folk instruments and the others—they sound so lovely (the wooden flutes engraved with ‘vines and leaves,” the silver ones “etched with runes”). Your own musical knowledge is very much in evidence here. Were I to write more about Adaon and/or Taliesin as musicians, I’d have to do research on harp-playing. I know nothing about it, but you do such a wonderful job of describing the real difficulties a little boy would have managing a large harp. A wonderful pun on “playing” structures this piece; for Adaon, playing-as-fun and music-making are the same thing (even though the latter requires a lot of work). As you’ve commented in your review of one of my stories, by reading this fic we really get a heart-wrenching sense of what Prydain lost when it lost Adaon so young. I have always found Fflewddur’s confidence that Adaon will one day be the greatest of the bards so poignant. Finally, I find it very moving that you wrote this upon hearing of Lloyd Alexander’s death. What a lovely, fitting tribute. His work is so much about art, and the necessity of art and the artist to remind us all of what’s really important. Dare I hope for more? I know, I should be—and am!—so grateful for this return to Prydain on your part, but you can’t satisfy a Prydain-iac (Prydain-maniac). Maybe I should make that an “Adaon and Taliesin maniac” as well.
CompanionWanderer 2007-07-18 ch 1,	abuseOh, what joy. I've been a fan of your Fading Summer ever since I discovered it, and I've been hoping your correspondence with adaon45 might rekindle some Prydain-related inspiration. I was delighted to see your name at the top of the list. What a sweet portrait of little Adaon, clearly defining innocence and adorableness without being saccharine. I love the image of Taliesin looking at him through the harpstrings; doubly symbolic, I think - as the way T. sees things as an artist, while also representing A's budding artistry. Lovely detail in your descriptions of the flutes. The idea of Fair Folk-wrought crystal flutes is inspired...I can just hear those in my head, clear and sharp and piercing. And the image of a four-year-old Adaon skipping around with pan pipes is just bewitching. Well, this has made my day. Thank you! I hope the trend continues. :)

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