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Dreamflower's Mathoms I by Dreamflower	10 Review(s)
Queen Galadriel	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 4/24/2006
LOL! Oh, I love your way of looking at things from the movie that make no sense when compared to the book! LOL! Oh, that is really priceless! Merry and Pip come by their mischief naturally, I see! LOL! God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: grin Well, see I have this theory that when PJ was researching his historical movie based on the Red Book, he came across some other less accurate tales and ballads, and incorporated them into his work, LOL! And most certainly they came by it naturally--and you will note that Bilbo was pretty mischievous himself!

GamgeeFest	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 4/16/2006
I love that you took that little bit of movie fanon and made it Bilbo, Rory and Aladrim who stole the rockets instead! I also love that Pippin was attempting a prison break from his room, though he really should think about what Elessar would do when he finds out. Still, it is good to see a little bit of pre-Quest Pippin emerge. Author Reply: I have my own little personal "story-internal" explanation for all PJ's ~~boo-boos~~ alterations. You see, at one point on the commentaries he claims that he decided to treat LotR as a historical movie, along the lines of "Zulu" for example, rather than as a fantasy. Well, if that's the case, then what happened was that when they were writing the script, they got hold of some other sources besides the Red Book, such as old songs and collections of tales written down later--and so of course there were contradictions. It just makes sense that if he heard about the fireworks incident, he might think it had happened at the Party, rather than on another occasion. LOL! Doesn't quite let him off the hook, but it amuses me to figure out these explanations. grin I think that every now and then a bored Pippin might regress just a little bit to earlier behaviors--he is still a tweenager, after all, as well as being a Took! And I think he probably hoped to get out of his room for a while without Elessar finding out. Not much hope of it, but he gave it a try anyway!

	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 3/13/2006
It took me until halfway through the story to realize that the Rory that jumped into the pool was none other than our Merry's grandfather! HAHAHA! Your ability to think up all those hobbit names never ceases to amaze me. An interesting take on the whole fireworks thing. That was great! Bilbo, up to mischief, Bilbo as a tween for that matter! A funny thought in itself. Author Reply: chuckle Yes, that was Merry's grandfather and Frodo's uncle Rory. Most of the hobbit names I used in this story came straight off the family tree in Appendix C, but most of the time when I need male hobbit names, I use this site: http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/ For female names, I have a garden catalog I keep handy, LOL! I just thought it would be funny, if the whole fireworks thing had happened, but that PJ got it wrong, and it happened to their older relatives instead of to Merry and Pippin themselves! This was the first time I wrote Bilbo as a tween, but I really like the idea, and have written at least one more of him at that age.

billypillow	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/24/2005
I've enjoyed all of your stories, this chapter in particular. I know you said this was part of an ongoing story at Lindelea's LJ - where can I find that?? Is there a link a lurker like me could check out? I'd love to read the entire work! Author Reply: Yes, Lindelea hosted a group story called "To Tell a Tale". Here is the link: http://www.livejournal.com/users/lindelea1/36470.html#cutid1 It was a lot of fun to participate, and several good writers took part. Each writer had a different chapter.

Tigger	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/22/2005
Well...That sounds vaguely familiar. ROTFLOL!!! Oh, that was exactly what I needed. Thanks for the great story and a badly needed laugh!! Author Reply: Just "vaguely" familiar? LOL! I'm very glad to have given you a laugh! And don't you agree that is likely the way it really happened? grin

Lindelea	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/22/2005
And thank you again for two contributions to the group story! Above and beyond the call of duty! You mentioned in one of the review replies, a story of yours where Pippin hears a song about his exploits. Which story was that? Sounds very funny! Author Reply: It was a lot of fun! I always enjoy that kind of thing!! In Chapter 30 of "A New Reckoning" one of the Gondorians visiting the Shire sings a song very popular in Minas Tirith called "The Smallest Guardsman". Poor Pip listens in amazement.

Andrea	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/21/2005
“Look at this,” hissed Siggy. He held up a rather large rocket. “No,” said Chop, “the big one!” Wonderful! I really enjoyed that scene in the movie. And seeing it with Bilbo and "Old" Rory involved is very funny. There must be something about the Bagginses, that little Brandybuck cousins always adore them :) Author Reply: I really enjoyed the scene as well. So I figured out a way to make it canon, LOL! I think there must. Perhaps, just being "onlies" gave Bilbo and Frodo the patience needed for having little ones tag after them. But I thought it made a nice parallel.

Grey Wonderer	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/21/2005
That was a very clever way to work in a bit movie verse to canon. Well done! I did love Bilbo in this one. Author Reply: Thanks. You know how I like to do that once in while. giggle I thought it would be fun to do a young Bilbo--I never had before. It was interesting to comb the family tree and figure which of the ancestors would have been his childhood chums.

Bodkin	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/21/2005
I love Pippin resting on his bed with his belly sloshing. And Sam's shrewdness in having Gandalf check up on the rascal. And the firework story is a highly entertaining revision of the eleventy first. As well as a rather clever explanation of how Aldagrim came to be a farmer. Very good. Author Reply: Yes, well a whole pitcher of water will do that! grin But I think Sam knows Pip rather better than Pip thought he did, LOL! Just a little tweaking there. It didn't happen in the book; PJ must have heard about it from somewhere--8-D I am quite sure Gerontius felt that any hobbit who was being such a bad influence on the younger ones needed a bit of "settling down".

Larner	Reviewed Chapter: 59 on 7/20/2005
What a wonderful manner in which to bring movie-verse into book-verse; and quite appropriate. Don't know if Bilbo would truly have failed to recognize Gandalf later had he seen him while in his twenties, but it is a wonderful tale nonetheless. Got a few good giggles out of it, I must say. Author Reply: I like to do that once in a while. PJ said he made LotR as though it were a historical movie instead of a fantasy. So I like to think of ways in which the changes he made might have come about--perhaps he heard of stories and sources which were not as reliable as the Red Book, or which had become garbled or changed in some way. If he confused Merry and Pippin for their grandfathers in this story, for example. (In one of my other stories, Pip encounters a song about himself in which he does all those things that he did in the movie,but not in the book. He is very surprised to hear he was supposed to have lit the beacons, LOL!) About Bilbo not knowing Gandalf, actually, it is canon. In Unfinished Tales, "The Quest for Erebor", Gandalf himself says that he saw Bilbo frequently up until his mid-tweens. And when he and Bilbo encounter one another in the Hobbit, and Bilbo says he doesn't know him, Gandalf tells him that he does. I think his failure to recognize was his Baggins side trying vainly to suppress his Took side, LOL!

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