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| Dreamflower's Mathoms I by Dreamflower | 7 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 4/24/2006 |
| I just love the way you write the Tooks and Brandybucks! Poor Paladin really gave up so much to be Thain; I wouldn't want to either. These farewells were very touching. But I can see so many opportunities for stories during that long visit! :) God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Well, really those opportunities were one reason (story-external) that I had him and Eglantine sending the children away. But so far the only one I've done during that time period is "Essay"--there will be more though! | |
| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 3/23/2006 |
| What a sad day for the Tooks. I could feel Paladin's reluctance of sending his children away, and the uncertainity of it all. It's almost like the children are losing their family, even if only for awhile. They'll get used enough to the idea of not knowing when they'll be going home after a week or two, but it will still be hard to not *know* when they'll all be together again, and then on top of that, together at the Smials and not home. Author Reply: Yes, this is indeed a very sad time for them--Paladin has always known what his duty would call for, but he'd hoped to put it off a good deal longer, at least until Pippin was almost of age. And after the dreadful experience Pearl had when Lalia died, Paladin and Eglantine are going to take no chances of exposing their children to more of that until they have the reins of the Great Smials well in hand. One day, I'm going to do some stories of the year the family spent apart... | |
| Gryffinjack | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 10/19/2005 |
| How sad for them to be leaving their old life behind! Nothing will ever be the same for any of them ever again. Although Merry and Pippin both will enjoy being able to spend so much time together during an unusual period in the year, I'm sure that Pippin will be missing his parents a great deal and wondering what it will be like when he goes back "home." "Pearl was very pale. Only she, of the children, had any understanding of how difficult this move was for her parents. “Father,” she whispered." Is this understanding due to the incident in the story you are currently posting at the Pippin Healers group? I'm sure it is, in which case - poor Pearl! The thoughts she must be having! It should be a joyous time for them, Paladin becoming the Took and the Thain, but it's so sad for the family to be all split up and leaving their old life behind for one of so much unwanted public attention. I would like to see the story of Paladin's investiture - it would be very interesting to read from his point of view. And while you are at it, you can also write the story of Pippin's much later investiture. I should like to see that one as well! lol! There now, that's not too much to ask, is it? Author Reply: No, nothing will be the same, will it? I have some very definite bunnies for this particular year in mind, but I've yet to write any of them. So far they are just percolating in my brain, and I don't yet know if I want to do them as a series of vignettes, ficlets and drabbles, or if I want to do a multi-chapter story. It does, to a certain degree. Pearl's the eldest, and she has seen the gossip mill of the Great Smials at work. Paladin doesn't particularly want to be Thain. Hobbits by nature are not generally power-seekers (S.-B.'s excepted) and a job that entails so much responsiblity would not be one that most hobbits would relish. And the rather cloying atmosphere of the Great Smials, cultivated by Lalia and Ferumbras would take a lot of dissipating before Paladin and Eglantine would want their children there. Now, I've not thought of doing either investiture. I'll have to put that on the back burner and let it simmer, and see if it produces anything. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 5/23/2005 |
| And leaving the relative freedom behind must have been heartbreaking. Nicely done. Author Reply: Yes, going from being free to live his life in the way he has always enjoyed to being constrained by the duties of the Thainship was pretty traumatic. I postulate that it is one reason that he and Pippin have such a difficult time during Pippin's adolescence, his late teens and tweens. Pippin picks up on his father's ambivalence for the job, and takes on that attitude himself, making him think of it as something to be avoided if he can. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 5/23/2005 |
| Poor Paladin, it is quite difficult to have to give up his live at the farm to do his duty as Thain. It would be probably easier if it weren't so different. And the children ... it is probably easier for all of them for the parents to settle in before send for them, but it will be hard to be separated so long. I wonder how little Pippin will fare - he is with his beloved Merry, but so long without his parents. May I hope there will be another story about this? Author Reply: Well, he'd suspected for years that he'd be having to take on the Thainship as Ferumbras grew older and older and no wife. And in my Shire, of course, the mumps were the straw that broke the camel's back (I wonder what would be a good hobbity saying for that, since they've never heard of camels?) But Paladin and Tina do think that they need to get settled before they bring the children in--they know how busy they will be at first, and would rather have their children elsewhere, than to be with them and yet neglected. I may think about some little anecdotes of that year that the children spent apart from their parents...perhaps some drabbles or letters... | |
| Saoirse | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 5/23/2005 |
| That was very touching, Dreamflower. The unawareness of the children is what struck me particularly, and the fact that their lives will now be turned upside down by the whole thing. Something that they cannot even understand yet. 'Paladin kept his eyes straight ahead. He refused to look back one last time at the farm. That life was over now.' Poor Paladin! Too hard on himself. But, perhaps he is right? Who can really say? Wonderful job :) Author Reply: I think only Pearl is old enough to realize that, although they do have to be feeling a bit disoriented knowing that when they go "home" it will be to an entirely different place. But the pressures of being the Thain's children has not sunk in, especially for Pippin. Well, we know he made a go of it. And kept the Tooks free of Ruffians, so he must have finally found his feet in the job. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 49 on 5/23/2005 |
| Very sensitively written. You can see the determination in Paladin, that he will do his duty to the best of his ability even though he'd choose a different path if he could, that grew as he took the reins, and helped him to keep Tookland free when the ruffians came. Author Reply: Yes, Paladin had always known he would do his duty, but he had hoped it would not be for a few more years; I think he hoped that his children would all be grown first. But he is one determined Took, and once he put his mind to the job, he would do his very best. | |