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Awwwww -huggles Legolas- poor baby

Please update again soooooooooon

Thanks. this chapter was really good. I understand about the time thingy but its still painful! Anyway - you have a safe time and keep em coming. And if i dont post again later, have a great thanksgiving. Have fun.

Ah aislyn, you are so cruel- heh- and so good at this smutty stuff. I cannot imagine how the blondy manages to carry on with any kind of self esteem after all the trauma he has gone through, I find myself longing for him to find some surcease from all the horror ( whilst lapping up said horror - what a sicky i am)
Great tale, I look forward to your udates.
Rose

Having given the praise, I must now perform the nitpicking. If you are not a native English speaker *doesn't remember and is too lazy to look* then my apologies - though I think you should keep these in mind for the future. (If you *are* a native English speaker...)

Elrond refers to Legolas' attack on his warrior as an attempted castration. The meaning of the word, though, is to remove the testes - which is not quite the part of anatomy that I think Legolas sunk his teeth into! What the correct term is for Legolas' action, I am not quite sure... maybe an attempted dismemberment? *winces*

My other complaint (this also goes for at least one earlier chapter) is that Elrond seems rather (I'm not sure what the right word here is) coy, delicate, namby-pamby, formal, euphemistic... when he gives the order for Legolas to be "undressed". While "undress" (or, for that matter, "disrobe") are correct verbs insofar as action goes, they lack the emotional flavor and overtones that "strip" does. "Strip" seems a more brutal and commanding verb in this context (with overtones that it is not just clothes that are going to be stripped, but also dignity, respect, and so on) than "undress". Given how nasty Elrond otherwise is (and how this reader longs for the Day of Reckoning), "undress" just seems OOC (for what you have established as his character here). IMHO.

I hope that Elrond, his sons, Erestor and all other Noldor or Lothlorien Elves will get what they deserve for taking part in this. Lets say 100 years of staying in Middleearth for every elf they enslaved. Without alternative of death. That would be just. A little clue about Elrond's fate after the quest? Prety please!!!! Just tell me if he is going to get what he deserves. None hurts my Legolas and goes without punishment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we certainly had to wait a while, but this chapter was well worth the wait. I was glad to see that Legolas did not cave easily, but was horrified to see what Elrond ordered done to that girl. I have to admit, though, that after that (never mind the days of torture and time of "need" that followed) it would have been totally unbelievable had Legolas continued to resist. So Legolas was very much in character, I think - both before and after. (And what a horrid weight of guilt for him to carry! It was a mercy that the girl soon died - both for her sake, and for Legolas'.)

I have to confess that you had me fooled re Glorfindel. I could not imagine him wanting a piece of Legolas, and so had figured that Aragorn had rooked him in (to feed the spell/protect Legolas when he was gone). That Glorfindel volunteered himself to protect Legolas was noble. Now please explain *why* Glorfindel continues to serve an utterly evil torturing sadistic bastard like Elrond, because from everything else that we have seen of his character, it is incomprehensible.

Soon (next chapter?) Boromir is going to demand his "rights" under the bargain. For sure it isn't going to be (emotionally) pleasant for Legolas (ear licking or not) - it will inevitably remind him of that time of gang rape (which was probably why the nightmares - good job!), but after seeing all that he had already been through *shudders*, it does rather soften the impact of what is to come. (Or maybe this reader is starting to get numb to the horror?)

Love this fiction very much. Poor Legolas! I hope that you'll have mercy for him and give him happiness at the end.

:( : ( where are you? :(

dear Aislynn,

Ooh!!!!!!! Good one! I was wondering for a minute what the heck had gotten under Gimli's helm! Of course, I should have guessed it was the Ring. Can't wait to overhear that little talk Aragorn promised Legolas. Is our poor Elf in more trouble?
*smacks Boromir in the back of the head just for good measure.*