Hi!  This was a most enjoyable first chapter!  I enjoyed the details and how you set the scene from Nerdanel's POV.  Their first meeting was deliciously filled with tension--I liked how you fleshed them out--their personalities shine through very well for me.  I loved Feanor's expression when she told him that she doesn't know him--how priceless!  Her reaction when she finds out his real identity was juicy as well. Looking forward to the next chapter.

Lyra, this is wonderful! It's hard to know where to begin as far as my liking for it. You know, of course, that I admire your writing to start. Your characters of both Feanor and Nerdanel seem perfectly drawn to me ... but especially Feanor, whose little quips completed his picture and added a nice touch of humor to the chapter.

And, okay--fangirl moment--I must say that I enjoyed right alongside Nerdanel your lingering description of him parading around naked. >:^D

I'm very eager to see this continue!

This is wonderful!  This is the kind of story that although we know the ending, makes you want to keep reading. Great characters (of course, this is Feanaro in his teens) and also a marvelous description of the uses and customs of Elvish society in the (aptly named) golden days.

I hope the plotbunnies keep cooperating. Really looking forward to the next chapter

I'm enjoying this immensely and was so excited when you posted this new chapter.  I like how you portray F&N very much--they are such a great match for each other.  Looking forward to more.

Well, what can I say? The nomination is definitely deserved! Despite the end that we know this is working toward, I can't help but sit here and wibble a little waiting for the next chapter. More of this, please. I should probably say something about the chapter as well, but then we've talked about that via IM, you know I love it. Keep on writing, dear, and you can count on the continued support (even if I still don't know what I did!).   

I'm afraid I should warn you to expect me to keep on telling you how much I am enjoying this. Nerdanel doesn't seem to be aware that she has fallen for him.  ;-)  Feanor's presence was very strongly felt in this chapter, even if he wasn't physically here.  I'm very interested in how things are developing  the role that Erenwen will play and when F&N will get together again.  

I felt like squeeing when you mentioned that this will be longer than planned--I really enjoy reading this story.  This chapter is my favorite so far--I wonder how Feanor would have reacted if/when he finds out that she heard him!   And it's like it was Nerdanel's doing that resulted in him having to do humble chores.  LOL--so Celegorm was right after all, and maybe that's why she didn't answer her son's question.  I'm eager to see what happens next. 

Very well written! I enjoyed reading this quite a lot. Your talent of description is astounding, and I find I enjoy your versions of Nerdanel and Fëanáro quite a lot! Thanks for sharing this piece ^^

What a pleasure to find an update to your marvelous story! And an excuse to reread and enjoy it all over!

Poor Master Alcaráco. He doesn't know what he's up against, does he?

Looking forward to the next chapter

I've started to read this story now (backwards!--chapter by chapter, that is). I like the way you describe Nerdanel as artist: her attitude to her work and her fellow craftsmen.

Oh my goodness, I adore this story, and most of all, your Nerdanel. I love how focused on her work she is, and I can well understand her anxiety about it. The the locking-yourself-in-your-room and worrying about others will think about what you've made for them are all too familiar. And your Fëanáro is also very...Fëanáro! Lol.  I really really hope you will once update this story, it is lovely. <3

Great to see you managed to continue the story (under the current circumstances!)--and write a substantial chapter, too! I'll be interested to see what happens when those four siblings have to stay in one room together long enough to be sketched by Nerdanel.

Don't worry about the story refusing to move faster. It gives us more time to savour characters and conversations and descriptions! Very enjoyable!

PS: Congratulations on the baby! (does he let you sleep at night?)

Goodness this is so entertaining! It's one of those fics that I'd read over and over and over (and those are not many at all). I absolutely love the way you do take time (whether planned or not) to have a little ado about nothing. And the accuracy to canon is so generously used, and I love the details that are not specified in canon but fit in so perfectly (Feanaro's refusal to eat bread, for one). I really am at the edge of my seat to see how this is going to play out :)

Thank you!

Do I guess right that Feanaro had something to do with Nerdanel getting such a magnificent studio?

Loved this chapter--especially the end!

Through your update, this story caught my eye and I had quite some fun reading it.

The image of the great Feanaro trapped in a rabbit hole and dressed in a shift he had outgrown years ago made me laugh. I really like the way you manage to make him seem insufferable superior one minute and downright ordinary with all the flaws of normal people the next. One of the more human interpretations of the character I have read.

Nerdanel, in her own right, has quite some spunk, with a down to earth attitude. I really like her!

I really looking forward to her stature of Finwe's children.

A little side note: I hope I see a little more of Indis in further chapters. The few times she appeared, she showed quite some insight of her own. ;)

Another great chapter! Thank you!

You know, I really believe in that sculpture! Even if Nerdanel has her doubts at the moment...

I wonder what Feanaro actually did say to Alcaraco?

"... and nobody's got seven children."

Very much a case of famous last words!

I cannot believe I haven't reviewed this yet! Because it's a wonderful story. I love your characterizations, the details, the doubts and joys of Nerdanel's art process, and I could keep babbling on. An absolutely lovely story!

Bless Istarnie! My guess is that she is at least keeping an open mind on the question whether there is a bit of infatuation there or not, but is wise enough not to insist.

And Nerdanel will find eventually that there is "something worthy of song or at least a short poem" there--if she will allow herself to see it.

These are a great latest two chapters! I want to read more of this one also. You had posted a couple of chapters since the last time I had been reading. I really need to bookmark the stories that I am trying to follow. I will remedy that now!

I love this.  Your descriptions of Nerdanel's sculptures are incredibly vivid, and I love her relationships with her sister and parents.  Nerdanel's insecurities about her talent, and her place in the wider world, are so convincing and sympathetic!  I can't wait to read more.

Bunny, with all my might, from fore mother to my mum and me, you should really visit this person again... or else I shoot you dead on my second choice in watching you at pastor' s garden.

Okay, there are two things, that really happened, in my life, and my grandma was absolutely approoved and verified to have the second sight,  and she always stated very confident, for me to be her heir in this point.

Sorry, here in Germany it' s really late, and I am tired and ,too, had more wine, than supposed being good for me, really.

But, you just have to go on with that ; no,  not only on my behalf...

Good to see you update!

I really like Indis here and her analysis of the "Noldorin condition". She is certainly well positioned to see it in many forms, isn't she?

WHAT  you call a short chapter, another would have stated a LONG story, but, however, I am so glad you carry on!

In the meantime, I struggled hard to read all the stuff on this site, first only guided by taste, afterwards in somehow alphabetical order ( and the short comments ), and I am halfway done, not to mention all those trips to other linked or mentioned archieves!

But I developed my own special likings, and you know, this was   one of my first...

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