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Dreamflower's Mathoms I by Dreamflower	9 Review(s)
Anso the Hobbit	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/20/2006
Hahaha! Oh, lol! I have wanted to know about if Legolas "met" Bilbo while he was in Mirkwood and this was a very good touch on how it could have happened. :D I also love that Legolas is being quite hobbity in his tale, telling about what food he ate and such. giggles Author Reply: Well, he doesn't really mention it. But I can't see how there wouldn't have been some encounter of some sort. And, yes, well, he's been hanging out with hobbits for a good long while now--some of it had to rub off on him, LOL!

harrowcat	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/13/2006
I thought that I had reviewed this when I first read it yesterday Dreamflower. But my e.mail was down and I was sneaking a look at SOA at work so I can't have. Anyway... this is great and I am surprised that Legolas didn't ask Bilbo about it when they were at Rivendell. But perhaps he didn't want to look like an idiot!!! Author Reply: Or perhaps he did ask and Bilbo just answered him cryptically! It would be like Bilbo to not give a straight answer and leave the Elf wondering... chuckle Or, it may be that with all the dire circumstances of preparing for the Quest, it escaped Legolas' attentions.

Queen Galadriel	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
Oh, Dreamflower, you should really do that little incident from Bilbo's POV! I can just see him watching Legolas, and as soon as the elf's back is turned, picking up the goblet and drinking half its contents, then snitching meat! Ha ha ha! :) God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Oh, that would be funny, wouldn't it? Thanks for the idea--now I will have to figure out how and where!

PIppinfan1988	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
LOL, oh, how I have often wondered about Legolas and Bilbo running into each other back then! I could very well imagine the "pantry incident"! I also enjoyed the bit of background about elves provided by Legolas. Thank you for yet another wonderful tale! Pippinfan Author Reply: snicker I think it was more or less bound to happen, don't you? I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!

Larner	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
I, too, suspect this was a very early meeting with Bilbo. I still love his description of himself fated to burgle the same house interminably, you know. And nice addition to Lindelea's world. Hope to get the desktop back up and running this week if possible. Author Reply: Yes, that little bit of description has always stayed with me! I loved his droll descriptions of his predicament--so hobbity! Oh, I hope you do! I've missed your regular updates--I look forward to them so much!

Baggins Babe	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
I love the image of Pippin and Legolas - especially the Elf cross-legged on the floor! What a marvellous notion - that Bilbo's antics with the Ring led to rumours of ghosts in Thranduil's halls. Liked Legolas absolving the cat when he realised who the real culprit was. So I should think! Author Reply: Well, and Elf or Man on the floor would be at about the right height for conversation with a hobbit in a chair. At least that's the way I've always worked it out--any Big Folk visiting the Shire end up sitting on the floor. And after all, the strange disappearances and things happening while Bilbo survived on burglary had to be explained some way--but Legolas is a fair Elf--he wouldn't keep blaming the cat when he knew the real culprit, LOL!

Bodkin	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
I love the thought of Bilbo creating a legend of ghosts haunting the Stronghold! And Legolas convincing himself that he was imagining things. I should imagine that Pippin enjoyed the tale too - I love the picture of him in his nursery chair with the elf sitting cross-legged on the floor. Author Reply: I'm sure most of the Elves would have thought they were imagining things the first time it happened to them; it was only after it kept happening that they began to think up supernatural explanations. The truth would never have occured to them--a creature called a hobbit, with a Ring of Power? Thanks. I could just see the two of them, seated near a window in a shaft of sunlight!

Andrea	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
Strider was busy being King Elessar this morning. LOL! Now, that is an interesting example of "Pippish", surprisingly straight to the point, but to anyone except the Fellowship (and us readers, of course) totally confusing! When Bilbo used the Ring for his "raids" it was asleep, for Sauron had not called for it so far. But it awoke when he was still carrying it, I think. That made him restless and uneasy and kindled his wish to leave the Shire. He left the Ring to Frodo, when it was high time. Only some weeks or maybe days later he would not have been able to give it up. He really had good luck. But if he had known the full truth about his Ring, would he have given it to Frodo? Author Reply: Yes, very "Pippish", yet that's how he'd think of it. I am sure that no matter how much the hobbits revered and respected Aragorn as Elessar the King, to them he was first and foremost Strider, the Ranger and Healer and very dear friend. Yes, it was mostly asleep for the majority of the time that he held it. Yet if it had been picked up by a hobbit like Lotho, I think the greed and ambition would have served to waken it, at least some. But because Bilbo never thought of things of that sort, he avoided "rousing" the Ring by his own thoughts. Yet he carried it for sixty years, and Sauron had begun to stir. So, yes, his timing in giving it up just when he did was a very good bit of luck. No. I don't think he would. He would have been appalled, and perhaps sought Gandalf's assistance in getting it out of the Shire, but he would definitely not had thought of putting such a horrible burden on his beloved younger cousin. So, it's just as well things turned out as they did.

Kitty	Reviewed Chapter: 94 on 2/12/2006
lol What a pity the cat turned up – it would’ve been interesting what Legolas would have thought after the food vanished from his plate! I can imagine his face giggle Of course that had to be Bilbo with his ring. One could feel sorry for the Elves! When something like this happens only once, it could explained this way or that – but when it is repeated over days it must be very confusing. Oh, and I agree with Legolas why the ring had so little impact on Bilbo. It couldn't be simply because hobbits are more resistant to it, because it was a very wide contrast to Gollum, who was a hobbit, too - he saw it and killed at once his best friend. So it has to have to do something with the character. Author Reply: Yes, he probably would have thought he, too, was going mad, LOL! Bilbo was in many ways more resistant to the Ring than Frodo; it never really seemed to have much grasp on him until the very end. Gollum,I think was already an aberration as a hobbit--I've toyed with the idea that perhaps Smeagol's family were the ancestors of the Bracegirdles...who passed on a strain of acquisitiveness and greed that was unusual in hobbits...

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