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| A Healer's Tale by Lindelea | 7 Review(s) |
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| Anso the Hobbit | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/11/2005 |
| What a certian lad doesn`t do for his future wife, lol! He`d make a healer out of pure love that Tad. :) I also liked how you had all the hobbits give honey to the family! That is so sweet, and a very hobbity way of doing things - food for all occasions - also healing. :D Author Reply: LOL! He certainly does love Sweetie, even though he sees no hope for winning her. Bless his heart. I guess they can always eat the honey that's left over! Perhaps have a honey festival, or something. Thanks! | |
| Connie B. | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/7/2005 |
| Ow! That chapter was painful to read. I can't imagine how much it hurt Mardi. I don't want to know, either. It looks like Ted and Mardi may get a chance to have a much-needed talk. I think Ted is going to be pleasantly surprised. Thanks for updating so quickly. I take it the computer is working well for you now. Thanks. Connie B. Author Reply: Well, Ted and Mardi's talk is coming up in a chapter or two. Hopefully it will be a pleasant surprise for the reader as well as Ted. Computer is working, thanks! | |
| Mysterious Jedi | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/6/2005 |
| Excellent and leaves me looking forward to more, as always :) <>< Saved from sin through Christ, MJ Author Reply: Thanks! Happy to oblige. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/6/2005 |
| Well, at least old Rosie taught her well, whatever her other faults. It's going to be interesting when Ted learns he's misinterpreted a few things. But I wonder how long they will talk at cross-purposes before he gets things straight? And I do love Hildibold's amazement at Woodruff's treatment for his son. Author Reply: Yes, I think old Rosie had a passion for healing, whatever her other faults might have been. You've gotta wonder at Ted's thickheadedness. But then, he's convinced that Woodruff regards him more as a brother than anything else. And what does he have to offer? He's an honest working Joe; whereas Mardi is descended from the Old Took, son of a wealthy hobbit with a large and comfortable smial in Tuckborough. I love the fact that Mardi's father is open to new ideas in healing (at least, in the matter of his son, when *anything* would have to be an improvement over Mardi's prospects with the only treatments known in Tuckborough), and that you *can* teach an old dog new tricks. Thanks! | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/6/2005 |
| Wonderful! (does honey really work on burns?) As always, you're leaving me anxious for more :) VWD Author Reply: I haven't tried honey on burns, but it's amazing, what I've read about the stuff. Evidently it works better than conventional medicine, in some cases. Computer goes into the shop tomorrow, so I am not sure when I will be posting again. (A chapter of Dreamflower's will be posted on the LJ story, which was already scheduled for tomorrow, and then we'll have to wait and see when we'll get the computer back to resume posting.) I haven't even had time to read any of Challenge 17, though I saw you had more than one story there. I am very much looking forward to reading them! Will you be posting them here, or shall I look for them on the challenge when I'm back online? Thanks! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/6/2005 |
| Seven cheers for Woodruff. And I might let Rosie Bracegirdle off a thousand years or two in purgatory for teaching Woodruff the magic honey technique. Do you think Ted, Beryl, Mardi and Woodruff might begin to work out their emotional lives in the next decade or two? The clues are all there - all they have to do is learn to read. The Ferdinand references to fire are ironic. He is so confident and kind - and his life is going to be shredded. It's clear that part of the training healers endure is how to go without sleep for protracted period without losing their efficiency. I can see Woodruff being summoned from her own sickbed. Does she have children? I hope so. And they'll be able to set up a honey shop at the end of this. Talk about a land of milk and honey! Typical hobbit generosity. I think the Tooks have learned a new treatment for burns, too. Author Reply: Ironic. Sometimes it's a word-and-a-half. I tell myself he has five good years after this, and that he'll live them to the hilt, characteristically. But really, it's terribly bittersweet to write him whole and hale, not yet broken and embittered. At least I know he'll gain a measure of peace and even contentment before his end, but it's small comfort. I know that Woodruff has children, mainly because of a reference in "Rope" where it is said that Regi gave her the day off because her third grandchild had just been born. I think the newfangled treatment for burns is going to spread throughout the Shire, and about time! Thanks! (Actually, I think the only one in the dark about the way things stand is Ted. I'm sure that he'll be enlightened in one of these chapters, sooner or later, possibly about the same time as the Great Teapot Quest.) | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/6/2005 |
| Ted shows his quality, in instantly giving up his bed and offering to nurse his 'rival'. I hope that in the enforced inactivity to come, there'll be at least a little time for conversation and the clearing up of misunderstandings. It would be a shame for him to miss a chance for happiness with Woodruff. - I'm rooting for them, anyway. And Old Rosie had some redeeming qualities after all! I'm glad to see it. As hard as she was, she did teach Woodruff what she knew. May that count in her favor in the end. Hope the computer heals as quickly as Mardi. Author Reply: Yes, Ted shows his quality, indeed. I have grown very fond of the hobbit. And once Mardi was no longer kept sleeping, I'm sure there was time for conversation, the fruit of which will soon be made evident. Thanks for the good thoughts on the computer's behalf. We are pretty dependent on the beastie. Thanks! | |