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| All's Fair by Inkling | 4 Review(s) |
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| Nina the powerwriter | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/10/2005 |
| I read this entire story (save for the epilogues) about a week ago. Talk about a way of putting things! I enjoyed your approach to Frodo's life at Brandy Hall. It was very interesting and different, and the story twisted in some clever ways. I can see why frodo would of been turn off by the fact of having a relationship after what happen with Hyacinth! She just sort of left him hanging and never came back. This first epilogue is quite sad (and creepy, lol), but also has that feeling of satifaction too. I have really enjoyed reading this story. Good job on it :) Author Reply: Nina, I’m glad you’ve enjoyed my somewhat different take on this period of Frodo’s life…thanks so much for letting me know! Hope you felt the conclusion brought some resolution to things…that was my goal, anyway! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/5/2005 |
| "I don’t think it’s possible for every character in a story to have a happy ending." Frodo is right here! He doesn't know yet, that this will be his own fate, but maybe this experience will help him later, to understand "the pattern" and hopefully, it will ease his heart a bit. Tolkien said, that the name "Frodo" means "Wise by experience". I think, this is one of the experiences that made him wiser. There is not always a happy ending, but sometimes I wish, Frodo would have married. He would have lived a happy life with his wife and children and would never have been appointed ringbearer. But this story would never have been told! Author Reply: Yes, there is definitely some foreshadowing intended in Frodo’s words. And the meaning of his name has been very much in my mind as I wrote this story. Hopefully this will come across in the final chapter. There is not always a happy ending, but sometimes I wish, Frodo would have married. He would have lived a happy life with his wife and children and would never have been appointed ringbearer. But this story would never have been told! True, and what of the Ring? If Frodo had not been Ringbearer and Sauron had recovered it somehow, no one, including Frodo and his family, would have had a happy ending. So either way, happiness was not to be Frodo’s fate…sigh. Thanks Andrea! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/3/2005 |
| Aha--at last we know the bitter truth--he dropped a blob of paint on the picture and fixed it by making it into boots! Lovely thinking! I wonder if there was a need to rush things between Hyacinth and Coronel, and grieve at this foreshadowing of Frodo's own fate. No, not all ends happily here in the mortal lands. He had too much the right of it, I grieve to say. Author Reply: A need to rush things? Well, let’s just say that if not for Sam’s presence Bilbo would have been making jokes about crossbow weddings! ;) Yes, poor Frodo is starting to understand how the world is…if deserving had “much to do with it,” how different the ending of LOTR would have been! Thanks Larner. Ps—next week mehitabel will finally have her say…can you guess what that might be? | |
| Ariel | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/3/2005 |
| Oh, did I see that coming! Poor Frodo! I have much more to say on this chapter (which I loved) but no time to say it! Can't wait for the next - justice served! Author Reply: Thanks my dear…I’ll be very interested in your reaction to the grand finale! | |