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Your Heart Will Be True by Write Sisters	3 Review(s)
Beriathwen	Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/8/2006
I am really loving this story! Your character developement is wonderful. I haven't read very many really good fan fics yet aside from Cassia and Siobhan's stories. But yours is very well written. I absolutely love the little story about Merry's family and Pippin's mischief! Keep up the good work girls! Author Reply: Thank you so much! Cassia and Siobhan set a high mark for us, and your praise (having read both their stuff and ours) is very high indeed! grins Particularly glad you liked our forays with the hobbits; uncharted waters for us, but fun!

Imbecamiel	Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 1/10/2006
blinks Well, now HERE is a rare situation. Something goes wrong (nothing very unusual there), Pippin is right in the middle of it(again, hardly uncommon), but it is in NO WAY his fault or responsibility! In fact, he actually prevented things from being much worse! And to top off this incredible situation, it's an Aragorn and Legolas story, and something goes wrong, and not only are they NOT right in the middle of it, neither one of them gets even the very slightest injury! dies of shock Though, of course, seeing as it IS Aragorn's daughter who caused the situation, I suppose you might say he's sort-of involved, if only because it couldn't have happened in the first place if it weren't for him... ponders Aww, Gilraen is SO cute, though! You two are doing so well with Aragorn's children. So very few people seem to be able to do young children well, but you are handling them excellently! LOL! I totally cracked up at Pippin's reason for not having noticed he had a broken rib: "I was hungry." He! Perfectly reasonable... if you're a Hobbit, that is. g Hehe, and his biggest problem with the Houses of Healing - they serve light lunches. How horrible... shakes head seriously A hobbit could sue for something like that! It's got to count as neglect of patients, or... something. Of course, considering Aragorn would probably be the judge, I doubt he'd get taken too seriously. Poor hobbit. g Oh, I love Eomir and Merry together! You do them so well! sighs happily It's so wonderful... You use such a wide variety of characters, but all of them are so perfectly in character. Mmm, I particularly loved one line: "As if, without using any such words, he'd just announced the sun was shining outside." That's such a beautiful description! Merry is so much more perceptive than most people give him credit for. I’ve always found it so interesting, the way both Merry and Pippin grow up so much during the course of LOTR, but Merry does so so much earlier, and always does seem to be the one that “gets it” the fastest. Again, I love him and Eomir together! I think he’s the perfect kind of impromptu counselor for a Rohirrim king :-) (And I love his story about Pip, too. ROTFL! Too funny.) Ooo, and what a lovely, mysterious, vaguely menacing-sounding note... I think I can pretty well guess at what most of the phrases might mean. Except the “avoid seaweed” part. Hmm... So “Lord Ranger” and family are in grave danger, and it‘s too late to send any warning or help? YES! sheepish Ahem. Um... I mean... I hope everyone’s alright? whispers Except Aragorn! And Legolas! He’s going to be in trouble too, isn’t he? hopeful look Setting up for a very interesting story! Can’t wait to see what happens! Imbecamiel P.S. Hmm, you just might have something there - it might not be the best of ideas to call him “poor, sweet, depressing Bartho” to his face... But then, considering Erynnbenn did survive the whole Lindamar-mentioning incident pretty well unscathed, one might have a fairly good chance of surviving calling him poor, sweet, and depressing after all... Eh, probably still best not to risk it ;-) P.P.S. Oh YES! I definitely re-read your stories! Yours is among the very best fanfiction I’ve found, in any fandom. LOL, and I am currently in the process of re-re-(I don’t know how many times)-reading “Darkest Night”. Hehe, haven’t read it in a little while, so I’m having a lot of fun remembering details I‘d forgotten! P.P.P.S. Are you planning on doing a shortened parody version of this story like you did for “Darkest Night”? I loved that! P.P.P.P.S. Can you tell I’m addicted to post scripts? Author Reply: laughs It's kind of refreshing, isn't it? For Pippin at the very least, and (as you pointed out) probably for Aragorn and Legolas too -- who can enjoy, for once, the sensation of being completely out of the accident loop! Excepting, of course, genetic responsibility for the behaviour of one's children. Who knows how long their immunity will last...? blushes Thanks! Praise on our little kid characters is praise indeed, though to be honest: we have a leg up. Eldarion, Elenwen, and Gilraen are all roughly the ages of three of our siblings. Whenever we in a bind ("Would Gilraen say that?") we can sometimes straighten it out by a simple comparison ("Would Olivia say that?"). It's handy! Though it doesn't always work... grin A hobbit suing the Houses of Healing... now there's an idea! And you're right, 'tis perfectly justifiable when you consider the necessity of food consumption for a hobbit! Oh, and we're glad you liked Merry and Eomer too! We had a lot of fun messing with all these different characters -- even if only briefly. blushes over compliment on 'sunshine' line Wow, thanks! And we totally agree! Merry always seemed to be a particularly canny hobbit -- maybe because he had to pay attention enough for himself AND Pippin. grin It made sense that he'd become Eomer's confidante. You'd be amazed how many cryptic sentences we tried for that note... Glad you got them mostly figured out! Eomer has a particular code set up, so he knows what the message says, and you, as the reader, have the advantage of having eavesdropped on Mavranor and Halda, so (based on that) 'avoid seaweed' refers to the corsairs. You nailed 'Lord Ranger' easy, huh? eyebrows rise at Imbecamiel's happy 'YES!' Oh good, a fan of disaster! That'll be handy... grin P.S. Yes, probably too risky. Maybe if he survives the story we can try it then! Mwahaha! P.P.S. Again: we are floored! Glad you'll have the details in mind! P.P.P.S. We're hoping to -- we haven't yet, though, and we'll need to find someplace else to post it... P.P.P.P.S. It was pretty noticeable, alright. grin

Maranwe	Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 1/10/2006
Fair warning, huh? Guess I can't bust you for it. Darn. g But there is Aragorn next chapter? And he has a substantial part? You didn't promise that but after two chapters without him I feel justified asking. A matchamaker? Me? No way. It was a little birdie whispering in my ear. lol. And it's always the men set against it that get caught in the snare. Besides, everyone else is married, so it's time. He won't believe it but that doesn't make it false. It makes it inescapable. g Mmm. Are we supposed to know Tantur? And if Duurben's his uncle, who's his father? I'm confused. And I can't see the significnce of the part. I know there must be one, but I'm lost. Rather amusing, though. Brings to mind times I've been watching kids. There were quite a few climbers in my classes over the holidays. They really liked tabletops, and bookcases (short ones, though, so they never got out of reach, thankfully), and slides - but they liked to go up the slide part instead of the ladder, so that's why that was bad. And Ben liked climb into the shopping cart (plastic kiddie one, not the real thing) and he fell of a step stool and the grille in one of those little tykes houses... ok, too far off topic. You see what happens when I'm Aragorn deprived? My favorite part was Merry and Eomer. Surprising, really, because there are just so many parts to choose from. evil grin But it was cute. And I liked Eomer's reliance on Merry's bluntness. And I'm curious to see what Eomer makes of Merry's story as it pertains to the actions of his Marshalls. ...That sounds too much like a school sentence. Eh. ...Is there any particular reason he's called 'Eomer King' and his wife 'Queen Lothiriel'? It's been bugging me, so I have to ask. Criptic note. Crimson Lady isn't Mavronor(did I mispell that? I think I did.) is it? Do we learn who Queen Berthiriel (I hve to have mispelled that) is? And you never answered me about the upcoming (next chapter, apparently) attack being what brings Legolas into the pciture. Or if you did, I managed to miss it. You didn't, did you? Respond in poetry, please. g Muahahahaha. Ah hem. Favorite quote: "Oh Valar," he breathed. "Send the help I cannot give." There's just something about the ending of your chapters so far that draws me. g Strange, ain't it? Well, what the Jags did was lose. Again. I am well and truly mad at them. My faith is forever shaken. ...But you don't know anything about football. So, real quick: two teams, 11 players on each; quarterback throws the football to the recievers while the cornerbacks, who play for the opposing team try to stop them from catching the football. Two end zones, one at each side of the field. Running or catching the football inside it gets you 6 points, plus an extra point attempt; a field goal (which requires a kicker to kick the ball through the yellow tuning sticks g) gets you three points. 4 20-minute quarters; team with the most points at the end of time wins. Don't I feel smart now. Did that make sense? Anyway, I have to go take a shower then get to bed. I'm taking spanish, two lit classes and a writing class this semester, and my first class is at 9 o'clock. And as it's already after 9:30, I'm cutting it close. Long live Aragorn! muah Author Reply: No worries, we are about to assuage your Aragorn longings and we feel certain that all urges to 'bust' us will fade into the sunset! grins looks around suspiciously for little birds Oho! Small winged animals are whispering hints to you, are they? If they say anything about which character dies, ignore them. 'And it's always men set against it who get caught in the snare.' Oh... heheh... right... Sarah whispers to Hannah This could be trouble. Tantur is a new character! Tantur's mother was Duurben's sister, thus he is Duurben's nephew; but their relationship is stronger because Tantur's parents died when he was in his mid-teens and then Duurben looked after him. And it depends on what you mean by 'significance'. If you mean 'Why are you introducing Tantur?' it's because we'll be seeing him later; if you mean 'Why did Pippin have to go to the healers?' it's because-- stops short Oops! That was a close one. grin laughs Yes, little kids will find life-threatening stunts to pull no matter what. It'd be funnier if we weren't responsible for keeping track of them... Glad you liked Merry and Eomer! Merry called Eomer 'Eomer King' when he entered because he was greeting him in Rohirric (the same way Theoden was greeted in The Two Towers: "Westu hal, Theoden King!"). Later, when Merry refers to Lothiriel, he's speaking in regular, hobbity Westron; thus: "Queen Lothiriel told me to..." etc. stares at jumbled explanation Does that make sense...? :-P Actually, yes! 'Crimson Lady' is Mavranor, and thus 'Adviser' is Halda. As for 'Queen Beruthiel', well... grins wickedly You'll just have to wait and see! In poetry: Maranwe, dear, we do protest! Your question did not pass us by. Why didn't we grant you your request? It'd spoil our fun, dear! That is why. Right, well, that was abominable. But you asked for it! Mwahahaha. Thanks again for the 'favorite quote'! And thanks for your explanation of football -- it's certainly the best we've heard, though we're not sure if it gets us any further to truly understanding the game... Ah, well. grin Hope you got enough sleep! Ta!

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