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| Jewels by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 2/27/2025 |
| Well I’m not bored to tears! This was a lovely chapter - and I think it was as Jane Austen-esque as you can make Hobbits! I wonder what the days were like when you would go visiting for a month … Sounds like the two families got on very well! Author Reply: I'm so glad you liked it! I think we were reading Jane Austen in our homeschool about the time I began writing LOTR fanfic, so I'm sure her writing was an influence, along with Dorothy Sayers and a little PG Wodehouse. Really, the way Tolkien wrote his hobbits, I think he was emulating an earlier time in British history, the bucolic 1800s, at least in rural England and small country towns, along with the class distinctions that are so clear in the way he differentiates between Samwise Gamgee and the other Travellers. (Sam and Frodo remind me strongly of Dorothy Sayers' Bunter and Lord Peter.) You've got to wonder what they're doing for income, what with being able to go and visit for a month...! | |
| curiouswombat | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 6/4/2013 |
| **Note to readers: Someone told me that there was too much chit-chat in this chapter, it borders on boring. But we need to spend just a bit of time in the frying pan before we plunge back into the fire..** Then they were, most certainly, wrong. I'm reading my way through whilst I have an afternoon off work, and am really enjoying the story so far - and there is absolutely not too much chit-chat in this chapter. Author Reply: Oh, thank you! So glad to hear that. I do enjoy chit-chat, but I know that some people find it tiresome. Glad to find a kindred spirit! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/14/2006 |
| I like 'chit-chat'! *g* I went to see 'Mission Impossible 3' last year and came out of the cinema feeling physically assaulted. The plot had got totally lost in the non-stop action! Author Reply: I haven't seen that movie, but I can certainly appreciate the sentiment! (Have seen a few movies that were more action than plot...) | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/13/2006 |
| Lovely, whether it is like Jane Austin or not ;-) It fits hobbits nicely. Author Reply: Thank you! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/13/2006 |
| As I recall it, my own chapter in which a grown-up Pippin meets a grown-up Diamond for the first time since the quest was also compared to Jane Austen, so it appears that the temptation to write in her style seems to come out when writing about the North-Tooks. Heh! And Ruby has her eye on Merry? Poor lass, doomed, we know, to disappointment. Author Reply: Hmmm. Perhaps Jane Austen came from that branch of the family? Poor Ruby, indeed. *sigh* Hope you made it safely home again. | |