Great Story!

Ouch.

I have a really bad feeling about hwat side willow will be one in the final battle :/

Really, really hoping i am wrong.

Mh.

Interesting how differently the ring affect willow than the dark magicks did.

With the dark magicks, she was always motivated by her relationship to others- it was a key element.

Here, it is her relationship to the ring, and she is twisting things around quite dramatically :/

Damn.

I hope she gets better Y_y

Shudder at Willow's attitude, eerily reminiscent of season 6. Bad, indeed. I do hope she gets better with a little bit of help from Elron.

:-)

A Ring?

Oh No...Damn, this is bad, really is Willow's main fault, her lack of confidence in herself and want to be someone else Y_y

Great work.

nice to see the scoobs are not the big bad around, though i don't think they are so weak compared to orcs.

Hope they mature, though.

Wow...Very, very good beginning.

I really like the awkward scoobies, and i can't help but want to see how they grow up :-)

Hopefully this willow will have a mentor in magic and won't do too many mistakes :D

Please continue.

While your knowledge of Arda is generally impressive, there are a few uncanonical inaccuracies. The one that bugged me most is in this chapter. Elves go to the halls of Mandos after death to repent their sins and await judgement and rebirth, but mortals and mankind do not. Their fate is severed from the Eldar, and they travel beyond the circles of the world into dark mystery etc. therefore Elenya's (did you know that the word meant 'Monday' when you chose it as a name?) declaration to Giles 'Look for me in the Halls of Mandos' does not make sense. She is not exactly unversed in the ways of the world or elves either.

It seems like Willow really falls to the influence of her ring WAY too quickly. This isn't the One Ring, and even that takes a while to work its mojo. Frodo carried the One Ring for somewhere in the range of twenty years, and only in the end did he finally fall to it. Sure, Hobbits have a greater resistance towards that sort of thing, but even so, it can't be THAT much greater. Willow's had her ring for what, a few weeks? A month at most? And already she's totally alienated from her friends because of it?

Aside from that - I do like your story. Well told and highly enjoyable.

Um, question, did you just write this statement for JEWISH/Wiccan Willow Rosenberg . . . '... what sort of people Buffy, Giles and Xander really were; jealous, envious and conniving back-stabbers - a bunch of plotting Judases.'

Umm, I'm not the only one who sees the error in that sentence, right? That JEWISH raised Willow would think such a thing, that not even most CHIRSTIANS would come up with? (Seriously, they wouldn't, only the most devout would come up with such a statement . . .)

But I just had to point that out. It was just too wrong.

The rest of the story is great though. I love seeing how the ring is effecting Willow! It's just so much fun.

This is fun...
[inner purist] But Buffy & Co. don't speak Westron! And what happened to the creature they were hunting? And-
*kicks inner purist in the shins*
I think I'll just enjoy the zanyness of the story-for now. More reviews later, after I see where this is going.
Jay

Must find the next story...hope you've written it.

*goes to look*

Oh my goodness. _

This fic seems curiously unnoticed for such a high-quality piece.

That does it! This is going on my favorite stories list so I don't lose track of 'ya. :-D

And I'll review other chapters so you know I've actually *read* the story. _

*Story added to favorites*

*Author added to favorites*

Incredible fic! The cliffie at the end is just shamelss, though... I can't wait for the next story! Thanks for writing. :-)