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| Postcards From the Shire by SlightlyTookish | 2 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 42 on 2/22/2006 |
| For me it was seeing the house we first lived in when we moved to the Coast after years of not seeing it, noting how the house was almost to the property line and the huge yard next door wasn't huge after all. And a wonderful look at another way in which Pippin might indeed have realized he needed that time apart in Crickhollow, learning to be a Hobbit of the Shire again before coming back as the Thain's Heir. A wonderful look at how we can't truly just come home again. Author Reply: Thanks so much, Larner. I think the adjustment must have been especially difficult for Pippin, who is still underaged in the Shire and yet has seen and done so much. It must have been a struggle for him to decide to leave his home and his family and move to Buckland with Merry, where he would be with someone who understood him and where he didn't have to pretend that things were all right when they were not (and I'm sure things were not all right all the time). It's one of my favorite aspects of the book to think about, as we never learn from Tolkien himself what Pippin's motivations were for leaving. Lots of fodder for fanfic there! | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 42 on 2/18/2006 |
| The Great Smials seemed small from this height, but even on the ground home seemed too small to Pippin, its ceilings lower and its walls closer than he remembered. I wonder if it is because he's seen the wider world, the taller halls of Men, or if he's just grown up. I remember going back as an adult to visit the school where I spent my tender early years. Everything was so much smaller and more cramped than I remembered! Author Reply: I wonder if it is because he's seen the wider world, the taller halls of Men, or if he's just grown up. Both, definitely. I almost wrote that in, but then I decided a bit more subtlety would be better :) That sort of thing has happened to me, too. Not only did my high school seem smaller, but I noticed all sorts of small, random things - new paint, new benches. Even the little changes seem bigger when you have been away for a time. I'm sure the four travellers experienced the same when they returned home - but of course, they had huge changes to deal with too. | |