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| With Their Heads Full of Dreams by GamgeeFest | 5 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/18/2006 |
| Goodness gracious, what a dream! Smaug a lizard? And the Last Homely House made of *gingerbread*? And Elrond evil? My goodness, how do you come up with it? If there is a meaning here, I'm afraid I missed it, but I truly admire your creativity. I always have a hard time coming up with interesting dreams. God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Gingerbread - just like a hobbit to dream of food! Indeed, they all dream of food at one point or another. And Elrond wasn't evil - that was the dragon. ;) I don't think I could ever get tired of writing dreams and if I go too long without doing a dream sequence, I'll start looking for ways to squeeze them in! Usually, it's Frodo who has the dreams, so it was a treat to get the others involved and see what's been weighing on their minds lately. | |
| Elf Friend | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2006 |
| *dies laughing* I loved Frodo beating Smaug with a rolling pin! And Bilbo and the lizard exchanging recipes and knitting tips. This was hilarious! I'm looking forward to the next chapter! :) Author Reply: Smaug knows better than to charbroil Frodo when he has a rolling pin in hand, lol! Recipes and knitting are just the kind of random, senseless things that would come up in a dream - they have no real purpose for being there, yet we remember those details perhaps better than the rest for some reason. Thanks for the reviews! I'll try not to keep you waiting too long for the next chapter. :D | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2006 |
| Poor Bilbo! Love the erzatz dragon and hoard, and the typically bored adolescent. Adolescent boredom is SO much fun to deal with--NOT! Ah, very much an interesting dream. Author Reply: LOL. At least he only had to put up with Frodo like this in the dream. Bored kids are never fun to be around and they always seem to believe in "misery loves company" - if they have to be bored, then so does everyone else! Smaug was fun to write and I have to admit to chanelling a bit of the dragon from "Mulan" into him. *grins* I'm glad you enjoyed the dream! :) | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2006 |
| I love Smaug! He totally cracked me up. The fact that Frodo was making too much noise while Bilbo was trying to sneak up on Smaug was funny too! These are fantastic. Can't wait to find out what Frodo dreams about oh, and does this food make the dwarves dream too or are they used to it? Author Reply: Smaug rather stole the show here, didn't he? lol He's just such an adorable little lizard... er, I mean, dragon. :D I drew inspiration from "Mulan" a little bit for Smaug, but only in the manner that he would be very, very small! Frodo was rather missing the point of the adventure and was treating it as if he were still sitting in Bag End listening to Bilbo's stories, only this story came with a visual tour! I can't blame Bilbo for losing his temper at it all. The dwarves would be used to their cooking and so wouldn't be affected in this way. They suspected that the worst reponse the hobbits would have to the food would be indigestion or heart burn. They'll likely get an earful in the morning about not warning their guests about the dreams. ;) Thanks for reading. Glad you're enjoying the dreams! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2006 |
| “Please Bilbo. I’ll take real good care of him. I won’t let him put me in his thrall. I’m not like you, and I know the warning signs: crankiness, grouchiness, tiredness, feeling like too much butter over not enough bread. Or is that the other way around?” LOL!!! This is great! Bilbo's dream occurs just before he is going to leave the Shire and go adventuring again. It's a long time ago since he came back from his first trip. I'm quite sure he told his story on several occasions, but there were only few hobbits who believed him - one of them was Frodo. Now Frodo accompanies him on this first adventure - and his presence spoils everything: Smaug being reduced to a tiny lizard, the gold is only painted stone and the jewels are marbles (which can be used as currency as Frodo found out in Dale, haha!). So I would say that Bilbo is afraid of finding, that his adventure was not so grand after all. But then there is a twist in the plot and Bilbo finds out that he was enthralled by Smaug (the *real* Smaug) for years and years, until Frodo comes and *tames* the dragon with no effort. So Frodo should be ready for an adventure of his own, much more than Bilbo is in fact. Well, that was another effort to try analysing a dream. Maybe you come up with something totally different :) Author Reply: That was an excellent assessment and pretty spot on. Frodo certainly does color the way Bilbo views any adventure he is about to have. While he wants Frodo to come along, just as much as Frodo would love to go, he knows that Frodo is not really ready for such an adventure. Frodo might be ready to be Master of the Hill and might be able to face any adversity he'll encounter once Bilbo's gone (those S-Bs), but Bilbo is not so sure about Frodo's abilities to endure the road and wilds. He's also aware that he rather fooled himself about how grand his adventure was. He's focused on the main events over the years, forgetting all the everyday humdrum that surrounded those events. Would a new adventure, with no promise of such exciting episodes, be worth his while leaving the Shire and Frodo behind? Yet at the same time, he simply needs to get away. He really is beginning to feel the effects of the Ring at this point and the wanderlust doesn't help. He's more or less caught in a catch-22: he doesn't want to stay, but he's not so certain about what he'll find when he goes. Thanks for reading! Glad you're enjoying the dreams of our unsuspecting hobbits. :D | |