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| The Queen's Orc by jodancingtree | 4 Review(s) |
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| bobo baggins | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 10/23/2004 |
| Finally! Canohando gets a true welcome in an unknown place! I'm glad that he finally gets the treatment he deserves. Thank you for this interesting story! It spins a whole new aspect of Middle earth for me. I don't know what will happen once they reach the Shire, but I am sure that they can settle down happily there. Author Reply: Hi, Bobo! You think they really could - settle down in the Shire, I mean? An Orc and an Elf? Hobbits are such conservative souls - Bilbo and Frodo were really quite exceptional in their openness to new experiences... Thanks for reviewing! jo | |
| Rose Sared | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 10/21/2004 |
| Hobbity hobbits and the two lovers getting on with the family thing, but polio in the Shire, how are they going to beat that then? nice update and looking forward to more, as ever. Rose Author Reply: polio in the Shire, how are they going to beat that then? Not something Canohando's fighting skills can deal with, is it? I'm glad you enjoyed the hobbits, though. Thanks for reading! jo | |
| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 10/21/2004 |
| I like the idea that Canohando is known among the hobbits. Somehow that seems fitting, that he's a legend to these people as Frodo is a legend to others. I still can't quite forgive Malawen for not wanting to sail and so holding him back, though. Author Reply: Poor Malawen! She's come a long way, since she tried to drive the Queen's party away from her hut with arrows - but whether she can overcome her toxic shame in time for them to sail, is another question... Healing is rarely a quick process. jo | |
| esamen | Reviewed Chapter: 36 on 10/21/2004 |
| But when he had realized that Frodo could name off every hobbit killed in the battle, the Orc had been struck speechless. That had defined the Shire for him, more than anything else Frodo told him: every dead soldier had his name, and was remembered with honor. Oh, wonderful. What an awesome insight. Yes, that's the Shire, although I had never thought about it that way before. Now, are you going to bring Frodo on the scene? It doesn't seem likely that he would still be alive, but he did have the Ring at one point so it wouldn't be completely impossible. You seem to be a little cagey with your words as you write about him! It doesn't seem quite clear to me yet if he is still alive or not. Although you have beautifully sketched the understanding that the memory of him is very much alive. Oh, lovely, lovely. I'll be waiting for your answer! And your next installment! Thank you! Author Reply: Cagey, am I? LOL! But no, Frodo died at the end of *Following the Other Wizard*, less than a year after Sam. That's sixty years in the past, by the time of this story. Yet certainly his memory is very much alive, even among hobbits who never knew him in person - through the Red Book and his Memoirs. And of course Radagast and Canohando still hold him in their hearts. But for Canohando the warrior, the remembrance of the slain defenders of the Shire would be poignant - slain Orcs are not remembered, nor honored. Thank you for writing - I'm so glad you're enjoying this! jo | |