Whether it is because your world is so well-realised or because Gildor has less JRRT canon to nay say, I found it a seamless (if painful) chapter. Of course, you are a lovely writer and I am a willing suspender-of-disbelief when the 'verse gives me reasons to follow it through. For me, yours does.
I could woffle for hours (and did, at some length, and have since deleted it - I'm not a writer and my theories are no doubt miles off target).
As to why people don't comment (as with many stories, I believe that the number of comments is not representative of the number of readers - nor the level of interest), it may be that some don't comment on longer stories until they are finished, or that they have stashed it away to read later, or that they don't comment much about anything. I have an on-line friend (who I have since met, and know well in RL) who is a far more voracious reader/follower of a particular aspect of LOTR fandom than I could ever be, and I have never known her to comment on a fic. Not once, despite her desire to immerse herself into the world of ME being so compelling that she spent a year here. It (in her own words), changed her life.
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Date: 2007-08-18 11:42 am (UTC)I could woffle for hours (and did, at some length, and have since deleted it - I'm not a writer and my theories are no doubt miles off target).
As to why people don't comment (as with many stories, I believe that the number of comments is not representative of the number of readers - nor the level of interest), it may be that some don't comment on longer stories until they are finished, or that they have stashed it away to read later, or that they don't comment much about anything. I have an on-line friend (who I have since met, and know well in RL) who is a far more voracious reader/follower of a particular aspect of LOTR fandom than I could ever be, and I have never known her to comment on a fic. Not once, despite her desire to immerse herself into the world of ME being so compelling that she spent a year here. It (in her own words), changed her life.
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