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| StarFire by Lindelea | 8 Review(s) |
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| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 11/18/2015 |
| You have always worked literary references into your stories but your hobbitty parallel of Hrothgar's golden hall defies words. Oh Pip! Oh Ferdi! ... As for the rest of the story, you have held me spellbound. Author Reply: Belated thanks for this review, which I saw only just now as I was checking a few details while writing a new story connected to this one. Now I am going to look up Hrothgar's golden hall... What fun! I appreciate your coming along on the journey and stopping by to leave an encouraging word. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/6/2004 |
| Oh my word, all I could do through this whole chapter was laugh delightedly! You certainly know how to make up to your hobbits for the angst you put them through! Author Reply: D'y'know, this was the first chapter written, and the first chapter was the second! All this time I've been working towards the showers of blessing. It does help one get through the angst, knowing the joy to come. Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to review. | |
| Hai Took | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| Oh my! I thought things were looking up when Farry and Ferdi discovered the treasure in the hidden room! Now the Thain will certainly be the the richest hobbit in the Shire! I did like how happy Pippin was, him and Ferdi being so happy! Then Gimli showing up! Wow! All the people who knew Pippin seemed to have sent him something! I like how each thing was consistant with the place they were brought from! I'm glad that Gimli is here a nice surprise and I hope he stays a while! Looking forward to more and finding out how the Tooks handle their new found wealth! Author Reply: This was the first chapter I wrote, and the one that was the most fun to write! Thinking up all those presents, and what would be appropriate for each friend to send... and then I had the work of connecting the first chapter to this one! Whew! Thanks for reviewing. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| First, I loved that Faramir found the treasure and didn't even realize it. There it was all that time right next to where the Thain slept! Wonderful! I was glad to see Gimli and Merry in this chapter too and to see that gifts had been sent. Now Pippin will have plenty to pay the hobbits and see to the Tooks. I always like it when dear pippin gets a happy ending. Author Reply: I always like it when Pippin gets a happy ending, too! Thanks for stopping by. | |
| RogerGamgee | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| Deluge is by far an understatement...if I were Pippin, I'd have had a heart attack by now, with all the gifts they've received. And the coins with Elessar's image? Nice touch, that one! I don't think Tookland will br having financial problems any time soon, so long as Pippin manages it wisely. Well done! Author Reply: Thanks! Just one more chapter to go, to tie up a loose end. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| Did Merry get treasure too, did he? did he? Or is this a set up by Merry who organised an influx of riches from foreign parts? Or pure spontaneous chance and good timing? I hope all those mares are heavily pregnant with excellent foals who will be born in the Shire and are therefore qualified to race (or will they alter the rules to say that impregnation must also occur within the Shire?) Author Reply: I wouldn't put it past Merry, to send word of Pippin's troubles to Aragorn, or perhaps to have mentioned the disappearance of the Thain's treasure-hoard while on a visit to Rohan, and you know it's only a hop, skip and jump from there to Ithilien and Minas Tirith and the Glittering Caves and Dol Amroth beyond. And I imagine that Eomer, after his initial indignation over his gifts being banned from racing in the Shire, might well have made sure the dozen mares had been bred to fine stallions before they were herded up the Greenway to the Shire. Likely another dozen went to Buckland, seeing as how it's on the way to Tuckborough. Thanks! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| Pippin has an embarassment of riches now, doesn't he. The found gold belongs to the Tooks, but all this new stuff is his own personal treasure, I would guess, as it is a gift. And of course, he is drowning in riches of other kinds as well: friendship and love and esteem. It's a happy ending all around. Author Reply: Ah, I do love my happy endings, even as I toil to make them unpredictable. And I'm afraid Pip isn't going to be able to spend his gold fast enough to keep up with the influx after this. Doesn't it always seem to work that way? When you're hurting, you can't earn it fast enough, but if you have a golden touch it mounts up alarmingly. Or at least it does in stories. Thanks! | |
| Connie B. | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 9/1/2004 |
| Oh My! What a wonderful thing to happen. Even if the treasure horde hadn't been found, they'd have fine. This is just the measure heaped full and running over. Good things do eventually come to good people; it just sometimes takes waiting through all the bad to get to it. Thanks. Connie B. Author Reply: I thought about that (even if the treasure had not been found) but decided that Pippin would never feel quite right about the gifts, sort of like taking charity. Of course, since the treasure was found he doesn't need charity and can accept the gifts with gratitude and joyful wonder, and he can turn around and use his wealth to benefit widows and orphans and the dispossessed, without feeling that he's robbing the Tooks of their inheritance. I guess you might call the "bad" character-building. Perhaps if everything came easily, Pippin would not have such a good character! Thanks. | |