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| Jewels by Lindelea | 9 Review(s) |
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| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/10/2025 |
| Lindelea! Yay! Merry is back with us!! Yay! You know that this was serious for Pippin to lose his appetite! (((hugs))) MM Author Reply: Yes! Pippin is still a tween, and tweens are always hungry! (Or so I've been told...) (((hugs))) | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/7/2025 |
| Also loved the part in which Merry was teasing Sam about asking Rosie to marry already .. it's such proper hobbit banter, i loved it. :) Author Reply: I'm so glad you liked that! I made Merry a lot more aggravating in a longer story that I wrote later, A Small and Passing Thing, where he launched an entire campaign to get Sam and Rosie together that, unfortunately, backfired. Still, it all came out as it should in the end. Whew. Thanks! Author Reply: p.s. Actually, I had forgotten, but in the re-write of Jewels, I incorporated some of the ideas from later stories. So any talk about Merry proposing to Rosie in this story reflects his actions in A Small and Passing Thing (which goes into much more detail). | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/7/2025 |
| So glad Frodo is there for Merry. The care they gave Merry at the end was just perfect and glad that Frodo thought of the jewel that can possibly bring Merry back to the light. Author Reply: Very early in my fanfic-writing, it made sense to me that all those who suffered the Black Breath might have an anniversary illness, and that Frodo's anniversaries weren't just from the memory of evil (Shelob and the Ring). For that reason, I've written in several stories about Frodo using his elf-jewel to help others combat evil memory and shadow, such as Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, Fatty Bolger and, of course, Merry. (((hugs))) | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/13/2025 |
| Oh good! Frodo knew just what to do. Thank goodness for Arwen’s jewel! So glad Merry is feeling better. Author Reply: I'm so glad Arwen gave him the jewel, and very sad that he needed it so badly; eventually, even the jewel wasn't enough to allow him to stay. Sigh. Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2006 |
| Quite a different meeting between Pippin and Diamond than I'd envisioned, but I love it. And I'm so glad Frodo was the one to come, and that he used the stargem on Merry. It's aid was so needed, and now Merry can be merry again. And it IS time for Sam to ask Rosie, after all! Author Reply: "and now Merry can be merry again" is a lovely thought and turn of phrase. Thank you! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 7/4/2006 |
| I remember I wondered a little that Pippin sent for Frodo (and Sam) rather than for Merry's parents, who are at least as close, if I remember where Long Cleeve is. But then, Frodo is family as well, and Merry's parents would have no better understanding of what is happening to him that the healer did. And I imagine that Pippin was well used to looking up to Frodo, looking to him for answers. It's a measure of Pippin's capacity to hope that he's still looking for answers, after the healer has written Merry off, and not just family to sit the deathwatch. I can't imagine what Diamond thought, watching Frodo call Merry back with the jewel. "Elvish" it seemed to her, though she has no experience of Elves to tie to it. "Magic" might have been what I would have thought. and it probably would have frightened me (or any other serious, sensible person) to see Merry go from death's door to joking with Sam. And Hurray! for Frodo. He really takes charge. He gets both himself and Sam there is good time, he understands exactly what is going on, he figures out a way to focus Merry on the Light with the jewel, not to mention whatever calling he does in the silence, he deals with practical matters of getting food into both Merry and Pippin, and doesn't forget to thank the farmer's family. Thank goodness for a cousin like Frodo, with leadership skills and extraordinary experiences to draw from. (I do love Frodo, for many reasons. Right now I love him for never giving up.) Author Reply: Yes, I made Long Cleeve the apex (if that's the right term) of a triangle, about the same distance from Bag End as from the Bridge. I think that Saradoc calls Pippin on this point, and Pippin has no satisfactory answer save that he wanted to spare Merry's parents the pain that he knew in the Houses of Healing after the battle of the Pelennor. But I haven't read over the whole of the story in so long that my memory is fuzzy. I think it might have frightened Diamond, and excited her at the same time, to see such magic. She is drawn by wonder much as Sam, seeing the Elves for the first time. Ah, yes, Frodo. The Frodo of the book is so much more than the Frodo of the movie, who I fear is all good looks and very little substance. But lest I enrage serious movie!Frodo fans I will say no more on the subject at this time. I'll just say that the Frodo I write is the one I remember following to the ends of the earth, along with faithful Sam, when I was only thirteen. (And again and again, what with the re-reading.) | |
| Endaewen | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/21/2006 |
| Please double check this story. The summary says 53 chapters, but there are only three here. Author Reply: Thank you for your comment. There are 53 chapters to the story, but only the first three have been beta-read and edited. I hope to have more time to edit the beta comments and post edited chapters after school lets out for the summer. Anyhow, thanks for taking the time to read and remind me that this story has been sitting for *too* long! | |
| pipinheart | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 10/26/2004 |
| THis is good..... You have done a great job with the characters poor merr,and pippin is so worried about him... Good job Author Reply: Thank you! | |
| Lyta Padfoot | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/19/2004 |
| More of 'Jewels', yeah! Author Reply: Thanks! | |