Story Summary
Chapter List
| Ch# | Title | Words | Com. | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many Farewells | 884 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 2 | The Flight of the Oshelmingas | 1,653 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 3 | Into the Trees | 1,243 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 4 | The Lord of Lorien | 2,376 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 5 | Coming to Rest | 2,298 | 0 | 04 Mar 03 |
| 6 | It Begins | 1,572 | 0 | 05 Mar 03 |
| 7 | The Testing of the Wards | 2,612 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 8 | New Understandings | 2,697 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 9 | Recovery and Threat | 2,407 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 10 | All Aflame | 1,769 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 11 | The Sortie | 2,186 | 0 | 14 Mar 04 |
| 12 | Vulnerability Discovered | 1,778 | 1 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 13 | A Fool's Hope | 1,670 | 0 | 09 Jul 04 |
| 14 | Downfall | 2,414 | 0 | 14 Mar 04 |
| 15 | The Challenge | 3,421 | 0 | 14 Mar 04 |
| 16 | Some Successes | 2,749 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 17 | Many Injuries | 3,157 | 0 | 14 Mar 04 |
| 18 | A Turning Point | 3,210 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 19 | For the Lady | 2,252 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 20 | Dol Guldur | 2,669 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 21 | Leaving or Staying? | 3,167 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 22 | An End Comes | 4,463 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 23 | Preparing for the Future | 3,689 | 0 | 05 Mar 04 |
| 24 | One More Parting | 2,295 | 0 | 14 Mar 04 |
| Appx. Word Count | 58,631 | 1 | ||
Comments
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Battle of the Golden Wood, The
maeglin - 22 May 09 - 9:12 PM
This a wonderful, wonderful story. Too little has been told of the actual _fighting_ the Elves did during the Ring War. But fight they most certainly did. One has to invent so many characters - Tasariel, Calandil, Merethir, Thilevril, etc, etc, and this takes a lot of talent, but you do it so well! Did you write Tasariel into any other stories? The future for her and Haldir seems obvious.
Battle of the Golden Wood, The
Marnie - 23 May 09 - 2:58 AM
Many thanks Maeglin! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :) And I agree - I think one of the faults of the film was that it gave the impression that the elves weren't involved in the war in their own lands. That was one of the things I wanted to address with this :)
Tasariel was actually a bit of an accidental creation for this story. I originally had a male warlord called Tasarion, but then I remembered Tolkien saying that the elves didn't restrict any professions by gender. I wanted to reflect that, so I changed him into a her, but I never really intended her to be anything other than just a war leader. They do get on well, but I was thinking it was more a case of brothers in arms than romance.
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