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| A Healer's Tale by Lindelea | 9 Review(s) |
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| SlightlyTookish | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 7/11/2005 |
| How did I miss this story??? Thanks so much for sending me the link! This birthing scene was wonderful. So incredibly detailed! I'm just going to scurry off now and read some more...:) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 5/18/2005 |
| Good reason for the name. Lovely description of the birth. Author Reply: I always wondered how a farmer could come up with the name "Wanderer" for his son... especially a hobbit farmer! Must be something Tookish. Author Reply: p.s. but then "Paladin" means "knight", I think, a paragon of chivalry or heroic figure. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/4/2005 |
| I'm glad Woodruff has had a good experience of gentlehobbitly behaviour to counteract the evil Rosie. And she certainly seems to know what she is doing when it comes to being healer's apprentice. Sweetbriar's instruction - but Woodruff's action that enabled Pippin to survive his birth. Ironic that she is unable to help him breath in his 'final' illness. Author Reply: Woodruff has learned by experience and teaching (though not patient teaching by any means). She's learned quickly, partly because she has a quick mind, and partly because Rosie had a quick switch and didn't hesitate to use it--as will come out in an upcoming "apprentice" chapter. (Not the next one, though, as that one involves Merry meeting Pippin for the first time.) Thanks! Author Reply: p.s. yes, ironic. Irony is such an interesting situation to write. | |
| Mysterious Jedi | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/2/2005 |
| So that's how Pip was born. Lovely, as always. It will be interesting to see how Woodruff recovers from her not-so-great childhood to become an excellent (if obnoxious towards whichever Took was ill) healer. Author Reply: It will be a great help that she's under Sweetbriar's wing, now. And Woodruff had loving, sensible parents up until about a dozen years ago, so that helps. Thanks! | |
| Citrine | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/1/2005 |
| Whew! This was pretty intense! I was sweating right along with everyone else-I'm glad I know the rest of the story. According to my mother I was born this way myself, breech, trapped for quite some time with one leg out and one in. So my compliments on another fine chapter, and I think I better go kiss the hem of my mother's garment now. Author Reply: My goodness, a real-life survivor! (Wondering how they got you out, technical curiosity--How awful of me!--as that was to be the original idea of this chapter except that I couldn't find any procedures for a single-footling breech delivery when I was researching.) Yes, and you ought to present her with a large bouquet of flowers as well. Thanks! | |
| Ariel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/31/2005 |
| LOL! Oh, dear! I had two double footling breeches, so I was very able to follow your proceedure. Alas, neither of mine went natural but I did read up on how one would birth that way if one needed to. So did you, apparently! LOL! A very well crafted chapter. Author Reply: Read up on it, and heard a mother's first-hand account where the baby was apparently lifeless by the time they got her out. (I cannot remember why they couldn't do an emergency C-section... perhaps the baby was too far down the birth canal or something to that effect.) That little one had an Apgar of 1, as I recall, and yet made a recovery that was called "miraculous", and is a lively, vivacious young lady now, approaching adulthood with no apparent ill effects from her rocky entrance into the world. Thanks! | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/31/2005 |
| This is so fantastically done. The balance between birth and death, at each the fight for life, is just incredibly powerful. VVWD!!!!! Wonderful!!!!! Author Reply: It's funny that the balance is bugging me... it would be logical to slap a quick ending on, put the Ent-draught in the next chapter and call it "done" except for the fact that I started out in the first place determined to tell Woodruff's story, and it seems a shame to break off now. Thanks for the note of encouragement! | |
| Hai Took | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/31/2005 |
| Wow! That was a very exciting chapter! So Woodruff ended up being the one to breath life back into Pippin in the first place! Even though I knew what the outcome had to be you had be holding my breath! The relief that must have been in that room when everything was all right! I see you are using this set of friends! Dinny, Dinny, Merry and Sorry, although I can't figure out which one is missing, Merry? and wonderful look at their relationship! Very gentlehobbitish they are to not allowing Woodruff to carry the buckets and all, she is not use to such kindness. Looking forward to more! Author Reply: Yes, Merimas ("Merry") is missing, but Meriadoc will be in the next "apprentice" chapter. Good catch, that you recognised the set of friends! Thanks! Author Reply: Oops, I meant Merimac! (I'm always confusing the two when I type! My brain knows the difference but apparently my fingers don't.) | |
| Connie B. | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/31/2005 |
| Aaahhhh! What a sweet ending to this chapter. It was a nail-biter, though. Even if I knew everything would be okay. Pippin literally gave Woodruff fits from before he was born. I do have an odd question. In your universe, was he a full term baby? So many of us have him pictured as a premie that I was curious. I always did think he was breech. Glad someone else sees it that way, too.:) Thanks for another wonderful chapter. I am well and truly hooked. Connie B. Author Reply: Yep, nail-biter to write, too, and I went over my 3,000 word limit. I actually had a babe that started head-down when labour started and ended up foot-first. Good thing I didn't know at the time how very dangerous it was. In my universe, Pippin is full-term. The reason he's smaller than the other hobbits on the Quest is because his mother is small and he takes after her in that! Well and truly hooked, music to an author's ears. *sigh* (What does that say about me? Well, "we aim to please", at least.) Thanks! | |