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| In the Greening of the Year by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/28/2004 |
| Am trying to catch up, and enjoying this thoroughly. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/25/2004 |
| OK, now I want the well story. LOL Thank you for the after-Thanksgiving dinner reading treat. I was thankful that this was here. Now, soon everyone will be worried. I loved how Eglantine kept Tolly from falling into despair, but yet was unable to stand the sawing bit of the story. I cringed a bit myself. Happy Thanksgiving and I will be waiting for more of this one. Author Reply: I want the well story too! I'm only afraid that I can't tell it as comically as Pippin. Had a good Thanksgiving indeed, and hope yours was happy. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/25/2004 |
| What a terrifying beginning to chapter 3! Then, Eglantine helping Tolly to see how needed and loved he is. And Tolly and Nell both being distracted by Pippin stories is the perfect touch as I'm sure the family had those in abundance ;) And wonderfully leaving me eager for more!! VWD!! Author Reply: Yes, chapter 3 was very scary. I hoped no one would think badly of Tolly for his near-hysterical fear... but then he was in an impossible situation. Thanks so much for the encouragement! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/25/2004 |
| Good one, Eglantine. She's not letting Tolly get away with woolly thinking even stuck there in the mud. Although wit ('I’d rather not go on, if I don’t have the legs to go on.') even in the midst of disaster either indicates the kind of personality who would - literally - do anything for a laugh, or maybe that what he is looking for is reassurance. Holding a hobbit down while he had his legs amputated must have been fairly traumatic. Actually it makes me think of Ferdi's father - surviving the fire to live out years of helplessness - but I suppose Tolly has Sweetie and the sprogs. Eglantine's making him fight, though. Ferdi has entered his weather vane phase, has he? So useful to have an extra career path he could follow, should he so desire. He and Pippin worked hard to keep Nell calm and entertained. Don't know if they've really got her convinced. Author Reply: I think Tolly just cannot help himself (in more than one way, in this story). I think back to him and Ferdi cracking jokes as they're waiting to be branded and banished from the Shire, in "Runaway"... Actually, it was Jodancingtree that gave him such a sense of humour, or else she read into the gallows humour of the branding scene I'd written and expanded on it. I keep coming back to the description she wrote of his jokes growing wilder as the level of the hot-toddy in his cup went down... I was thinking of Ferdi's father, too, but Ferdinand's case was different in that he'd lost everything, not just his arms and legs. His wife and brother were dead, his fortune gone, the ponies burned to death or survivors sold to pay his debts, his daughter run off and his son reduced to a half-wit in the eyes of many. Tolly has great advantages even if he does lose his legs! Extra career path. *snort* Yes, the weather ache is a result of the head injury Ferdi sustained when he fell in the race. But it brought him together with Nell, so the dark cloud had a silver lining! Thanks! | |
| Connie B | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/25/2004 |
| So the worrying begins. The diversions Pippin and Ferdi used were nice. Are we going to get the full story of Pippin in the well, or Pippin and the cat, for that matter? You're right, I think Eglantine's bluntness is a trait from her family. Pippin must have got a lot more from her tham many think. His Tookishness must come from more distant parts of that bloodline since his own father and grandfather seem to be exceptions to the rules of Took behavior. Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving. Connie B. Author Reply: Happy Thanksgiving to you too! Am going to leave off writing and go bake some savoury rolls. Until later! | |