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| To See Justice Done by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Anso the Hobbit | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/22/2006 |
| It is indeed up to Sam and as he knows the rest of the hobbits are taken care of and asleep he don't have to concentrate on their welfare as he would otherwise do instinctively. hahaha! I just love the way you write Sam in this story. :D I love the way he thinks and expresses himself and gets Strider just where he wants him. It is hard to comparison the life in the Shire and Gondor but Aragorn is right. A new leader can't throw everything old he doesn't like out without having to face the concequences. But now there is hope! I have always wondered if Beregon was happy in Ithilien though, we don't get to know much about that when reading ROTK. But it is mercy. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/16/2006 |
| I can so see Sam arriving in indignation and then finding it hard to know what to say next. And Aragorn feeling that he needed to move forward slowly and show that he was fully intending to uphold the law. BUT I cannot help but feel that he's being gormless here. Gondor loves Faramir. Showing mercy to one whose misdeeds were committed in order to save Gondor's favourite son is not likely to detract from his position, but reinforce it. Here is Faramir's replacement in ruling Gondor praising the one who saved Faramir's life. Lots of messages here - Faramir is my friend. I do not feel threatened by Faramir's survival. I do not expect mindless obedience to orders that are quite clearly deranged. And death might be preferable to exile for Beregond - but what about his family? His wife and sons might have a different opinion. Aragorn needs to think more laterally here. And I'm very glad I already know the outcome! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/15/2006 |
| And the idea of the proper USE of exile begins to dawn on both Hobbit and King. Am so glad Sam decided to have this talk with Aragorn. | |
| grumpy | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/14/2006 |
| I am really enjoying this story. Sam's waking of the king, who seems to have gone up a tower to take a nap. I love Sam's early attempts to say what he wanted to say, and Aragorn did not know what he was on about. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/13/2006 |
| Like many others I AM glad that I know Beregond's eventual fate. I really felt for Aragorn in this chapter. To be at odds with Sam, however briefly, must have been awful. But then I don't cope with disagreement wel. I loved this bit... 'Is there no other way?' the hobbit cried desperately. Surely he was making things worse, rather than better, as if he were tying the rope around the doomed man's neck with his own hands. Or lifting Sting for the stroke... and then, at a flash of expression in the King's eyes, he grasped like a drowning hobbit at the slightest of hopes. 'What is it?' he said. 'There is another way?' The minute that Sam decided to approach Aragorn he became part of the decision making even though the final resonsibility remains with the King. What an awesome thing to have to live with - just as well its got as good an ending as is possible. BTW I think I must have expand the timeline in reading the last chapter. I sort of assumed that Sam had time to retreat back towards the door after he stumbled into the room but obviously Sam thinks more quickly than I gave him credit for!! *Chuckle* Author Reply: I hate disagreement as well. I'd just like for everyone to get along. (However, I have a great capacity for being disagreeable, which I try to keep reined in most of the time anyway). I love it when people quote bits. I need to do more of that in my own reviewing. Chuckling with you! Sometimes he does think quicker than he used to... all that training he got along the Quest... | |