...can it even be called a story? *prods "story" with little finger and shudders* It's a badfic alright. Ugh, the foulness of it is getting to me.

~Autumn

Big mistake.

Gondolin? She's going to 'reunite' Gondolin? Without, apparently, consulting Glorfindel? This is--this--okay, now I agree completely with your subject line. If, when you do this mission, you want any volunteer agents to help, or possibly burn down the 'reunited' Gondolin if it turns out to be a Geographical Aberration, contact me.

Oh, and she had better claim to be related to the right people. Because, technically? Elrond's children are, currently, the last of the line of Gondolin's rulers. Y'know, because Earendil was Elrond's father, and the son of Tuor and Idril, who was the daughter of Turgon, King of Gondolin. And since she's stated very clearly that her parents were only friends of Arwen's parents, well, she's out of luck there. If anyone's going to 'reunite' Gondolin, though for what purpose I have no idea, it should be someone of Elrond's or Elros' lines. Not this Arva girl.

Grrrrr.

I think I'll go play with hobbition the mini-Balrog for a bit. Or possibly with some tribbles. Hopefully that will calm me down.

(Gondolin?!)

~DF

"We have never seen the face of Lady Arva for a long time."
Brilliant! So she'll be either covering her face or leaving shortly, then?

Also, you can go ahead and claim this story now--just write 'pending Permission' next to...your name, I think, it's been long enough since I got my Permission that I don't quite remember...hold on, I'll check that.

Yeah, you put 'pending Permission' next to your name. ( This page, second sentence). It's a fairly common thing to do, from what I've seen, so go ahead. (Just remember to take out the 'pending Permission' part once you actually have Permission...)

Also: Arva? Is that meant to sound vaguely like Arda to me?
-Arwen's mother didn't bloody well die, she sailed to Valinor because she couldn't bear staying in M-e.
-'Yeah'? 'Yeah'? Mah pitom 'yeah'! Vechi teyma 'yeah'! This is the Third Age of Middle-earth, not the twenty-first century of Earth! There is no 'yeah'! It doesn't exist, especially not among Elves!*
-well, at least she can spell 'minutes'! Unless you like minuets, in which case...you're out of luck. Sorry.

And that's all I can bear to read. I look forward to the eventual mission...

~DF

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*My apologies, I tend to slip into Hebrew and Aramaic when I can't find a good English equivalent to express my rage. 'Mah pitom' means something along the lines of...um...what on Earth, I suppose, and 'vechi teyma' is an Aramaic phrase meaning 'and if you said' (something like that), which is used at the beginning of a statement that will be contradicted directly afterwards, ie Vechi teyma Elves are human teenagers--no! Elves are elegant and immortal beings who never say things like 'yeah'.

Thank the Lord for small mercies.

-- Len