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wiseheart ([personal profile] wiseheart) wrote2007-06-08 09:14 pm
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"The Shoemaker's Daughter" is one of my favourite stories. Granted, it's not exactly the kind of story that would attract the average Tolkienfic reader: it deals with a bunch of OCs, it has an ungodly abundance of trivia and long, loving descriptions, and it's updated about once in a year or so. Still, I've hoped that at least the handful of people who seemed to like my other Halabor stories would be interested.

Well, not so much luck. The two recently posted chapters not only didn't get a single review (together), despite having been posted to four (!) different places, on SoA, they didn't even get a single hit! Yeah, hit counters can be depressing sometimes. On FF.Net and TFF at least they had a handful of hits.

I know, we aren't living in the times when people would be willing to crack open an epic novel - or start reading a fic of the same proportions. I know the reasons, and I'm sympathetic, really. It's still depressing, though.

Well, at least it hasn't attracted any malevolent "critics" yet, either. I guess I ought to count my blessings, small as they might be.
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[identity profile] phyloxena.livejournal.com 2007-06-09 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
I actually like "Shoemaker's daughter". The thing is, exactly, that it is almost original work. It doesn't work as a quick fix for a fanfic junkie, you see... I know I'll read the current (or next) installment when my brain defries itself.

[identity profile] wiseheart.livejournal.com 2007-06-09 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know it's an acquired taste - and not exactly an easy read. I didn't even expect anyone else than the people who've already grown interested in Halabor and its inhabitants to read it. There are too many OCs, too little link to the most popular canon characters - although Gildor Inglorion will appear in the next chapter, and in the future, more and more canonical ones will be coming. The second part of the story takes place in Lossarnach and Minas Tirith, after all.

But personally, it's all about Halabor for me. How the people lived there under the shadow of Mordor, what the perils of daily life were - again, in the next chapter you'll see that Orcs aren't the only problem... in short, what life was like in Gondor outside of Minas Tirith or Dol Amroth.

Plus, as I have a vexed interest for the Middle Ages, I get a major kick out of all the research, of course. *g*
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