Comments on The Fall of Minas Tirith

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This story was fantastic!

I think you conveyed the character's feelings perfectly. You do a great job in the beginning of the story showing just how hopeless their situation is, and later on of showing how even though they've been rescued it hasn't solved all their problems. The descriptions of the aftermath of the battle were great as well. They told enough to give an impression, but left enough to the imagination to make it truly horrifying.

The interactions between Celebrimbor and Orodreth were touching, as was the final scene with Curufin and Orodreth. The scene where Celebrimbor runs out to greet his father was heart-wrenching as well. The part where Huan bounds in and starts attacking the enemy was great, too.

I liked seeing Curufin and Celegorm play the heroes, if for no other reason than it makes what happens later all the more complex and tragic.

I'm completely babbling, sorry...I just wanted to tell you that I think this story was wonderful and insightful!

Thank you so much!

I had the same thought when I first ran across that snippet in the Histories -- to think that at one point Tolkien had Celegorm and Curufin saving the day! It does just make their inevitable fall so much worse and more heartwrenching -- which is, of course, a wonderful reason to explore it and inflict it on others ]:} Much like their abandoned friendship with Angrod and Aegnor, it brings a lot to their characters that can get lost in light of their more infamous moments.

Thank you so much for your review! It really did make my day at a rather stressful irl time :)

I really like this! As Himring says, it's very intense. It gives a real sense of the emotions and costs of some of those battles that are briefly described in a few sentences.

I appreciate your competent and determined Orodreth -- fandom tends to write him as kind of wishy-washy sometimes, but he is of the House of Finwe, and I feel it strengthens the tragedy if he's not incompetent or weak but eventually just has too much piled on him. I also really like how you wrote the Fëanorians, and that's a great cameo of Huan in battle.