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| Baggins! by Grey Wonderer | 8 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2008 |
| Another one that was well worth rereading! I'd forgotten about the use to which Saradoc put the bowl of punch! Heh! Author Reply: Saradoc was resourceful in this one. I do like Saradoc Brandybuck. Thanks for re-reading and reviewing again. | |
| PIppinfan1988 | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| LOL, that *was* a great use for punch! What a sweet moment between Bilbo and Frodo. Through your pair, I can readily see how the infamous duo got on so well together. But the whole thing about the fire was too funny. :-) LOL, for an *extremely* brief moment, I thought Saradoc was grabbing the punch bowl to run out of the Hall with! (as in, hobbits saving food and drink from disaster) LOL, I'm thinking, forget the punch, you goose, grab the *beer barrel*!! Good work, G.W.! Pippinfan Author Reply: LOL Saradoc was probably glad when Bilbo and Frodo began celebrating at Bag End instead of Brandy Hall. Fewer fires. I seem to keep trying to burn Brandy Hall down in one way or another, don't I? (Pip's smoking lessons and now this.) Glad you liked it! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| “And that pop-n-jay Tobias Tunnely. Nice enough fellow I suppose but all he wants to do is to tell me about how talented he is. He’s started teaching carpentry and I think he is trying to scare up some business.” “Carpentry?” Frodo asked. Now, that started the carpentry-lessons? Well, someday Mr. Tunnely will regret, that he involved the Bagginses (and their relations) in his business ;-) That was a wonderful story, G.W. Bilbo and Frodo have so much in common. They even fled into the same room! And thanks to Lobelia, they can celebrate their birthday now the way they like it - in private! It's really a shame there is no punch left ;-) Author Reply: Bilbo will have to learn to smoke in rooms with windows or outside. Between his smoking and Lobelia's shreiking they caused quite a stir. I sort of decided to put Mister Tunnelly into this one to connect things up a bit. I am glad that you enjoyed this one and thanks for reading! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| This was wonderful. I love your Bilbo--he's so delightfully wicked, in a good way. And setting it the year prior to his adoption of Frodo makes sense--it could very well be that this is what gave him the impetus to finally have Frodo at Bag End to live. Only Lobelia could take a casual and low mention of the word "fire" and turn it into a 3-alarm catastrophe with one loud shriek, LOL! Saradoc trying to put the fire out with the punch was priceless. And I loved the ending--a nice quiet family celebration, without a lot of hangers-on. Author Reply: Thank you. For some odd reason someone in most of my stories winds up getting wet. LOL And I finally got to put Lobelia to good use in this one. Glad you enjoyed it. | |
| SlightlyTookish | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| Great work once again, GW. I really enjoyed this one, from the Bilbo and Frodo bonding to the very wet finale :) Author Reply: I'm glad you liked it. I wanted to write a birthday fiction for the day. Thanks for the review! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| What an adorable birthday story! “To tell you the truth, I actually enjoyed it,” Frodo smiled. “Bilbo and I had a lovely talk and there is still plenty of food left and cake too. Now that the guests are gone, we can get Merry from the nursery and celebrate with just the family.” Happy Birthday, Frodo and Bilbo! :D Author Reply: So glad you liked it. I wanted to post something for the birthday this year. I wish I'd had longer to work on it but I wound up writing it last night after work. LOL | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| Ah, dear--the old bag managed somehow to get what needed done done--to get rid of no longer wanted guests the hard way! And it does seem Goodbody isn't much of a poet! Lovely humor. Author Reply: Finally, Lobelia was used to her best advantage and she didn't even know that she was improving the birthday party. LOL I guess there really is a purpose for everyone, isn't there? And yes, Goodbody could have used several 'ghost-writers' for his poems. I suspect that Mister Goodbody had a very small readership. Thanks for reading! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/22/2005 |
| A perfect breakfast read Grey Wonderer and a lovely way to lead up to Bilbo's suggestion that Frodo comes to live at Bag End so that they can ' celebrate (our) birthday parties comfortabley together.' Author Reply: Yes, with Bilbo and Frodo in charge of their own celebrations I am quite sure that they faired better and had a better time of it. I actually started to include the line from the book, but knew that it was a bit too early for Bilbo to suggest it. Glad you liked this one. | |