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| Reconciliation by Larner | 17 Review(s) |
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| Frodo Baggins | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/4/2006 |
| Larner, This story was a true tear jerker! Beautifully written and envoking such sorrow and emotion in the reader's heart. Amazing, mellon nin. I almost feel as if I were being left behind or as if I was the one leaving. Oh botheration! Now I have to go get that box of tissues... Hannon le and Namarie! God Bless, Frodo Baggins Author Reply: Yes, losing one so well beloved as Frodo was had to have been painful for all involved, and particularly when it comes accompanied by an apparent second disappearance by Merry and Pippin. Yes, there are tears, but more and more acceptance and healing as the story proceeds. | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/27/2006 |
| Oh, a sequel! Good. I like the way you write Hobbits. Sara and Pal are very good detectives. They're sharp and observant, and they draw good conclusions. However, I didn't think that Halladan would have so much trouble. I seem to remember that Aragorn didn't ban Men from the Shire until about eight years after the war. But I could be mistaken. Author Reply: Am so glad you like the way I do the Hobbits, for theirs is a different style and feel from most men. Sara and Pal are, after all, Master and Thain, and have had to learn to make deductions. And Sara has at the moment more hope in his heart, and so looks for the signs that might indicate these were possibly summoned to say goodbye to Frodo at the end rather than possibly gone forever. As for the possible problems at the Brandywine Bridge and the gates Lotho had erected--I've postulated that Aragorn did try a temporary ban on Men entering the Shire without special dispensation, possibly as a response to a call for such from the officials of the Shire. Dreamflower has told me she'd done the same. You aren't mistaken at all. This has been a part of my stories for a while now, and Ruvemir had to get that special permission in "The King's Commission." | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/26/2006 |
| Oh, wow, a sequel! Love Frodo's letter to Pippin. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Yes, a sequel. Glad you are happy about it. Frodo's letter to Pippin is longer than the one he sent to Merry in "The Choice of Healing," but I think he'd have an easier time in ways speaking to Pippin than Merry at the moment, knowing how devastated he's going to leave his brother-cousin. Hope the rest continues to meet with your approval. | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/26/2006 |
| Wow! I've never thought about what it must have looked like to Saradoc and Paladin to find the Crickhollow House abandoned. They are gone - again! I'm just glad they figured out so quickly what really had happened. The different reactions of Saradoc and Paladin to Frodo's letters to their sons are very insightful. It's just like Paladin to "explode" like that, being full of anger and speaking before thinking. Saradoc on the other hand knows instantly what Frodo had in mind: to spare the others the pain of seeing him dying. It's good for Paladin to have Saradoc there to calm him down. That was a very touching scene! And Brendi is back! I really like him. I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter! Author Reply: So glad you appreciate it, Andrea. Yes, Sara and Pal are different individuals with different reactions; but both with a father's love for their sons, and a close relative's love of their lost Frodo. And Brendi also is knowing loss here. How can he avoid it? So glad so many have come to like him. | |
| Radbooks | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| Looks like the start of another very good story! How heart wrenching it would have been to ride up to Crickhollow to try and reconcile with your son only to find out he was gone and to think that he might have been gone again... maybe even for good. At least I would have thought something like that after all that had gone on between them. I'm jealous that they got to taste lembas! :) I'm looking forward to seeing Halladan and co., again. Author Reply: They must have been certain at first the lads were off on some great danger once again, and must have been relieved to realize what was really happening, I think. I'd love to try lembas. I have a recipe I got from HASA a couple years back--think I'll try it this year. | |
| Baggins Babe | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| I've been looking forward to your next story, Larner. Love the way you portray Saradoc and Paladin and I'm glad that Paladin has finally begun to realise the truth. Saradoc understands Pippin and knows that he will forgive. Finding Crickhollow abandoned will have been a great shock to both of them. Glad the letters arrived before they had too much time to fret. Poor Brendi - trying to be so correct and observe his client's confidence. I really love this character. I can't wait to see what happens at the meeting with Halladan. Author Reply: I'd not meant to start posting again so quickly, but sometimes things move more swiftly--and then more slowly--than I'd anticipated. It must have been terrifying to think their lads had hared off once more, and reassuring to realize what was really going on this time. And again, am so glad Brendi is appreciated. His heart also is being torn, I think. The visit with Halladan will come soon. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| It must have been rather heart-stopping to arrive at Crickhollow to find it abandoned in haste. The letters from Frodo must have been reassuring - in a way - because at least they know why their sons dashed off in such haste. I look forward to seeing the understanding between parents and sons grow stronger. Author Reply: I agree about the feelings at finding the house empty. And although they now mourn Frodo's leaving, at least they are assured their sons will be back in a reasonable amount of time, and probably not changed more markedly than grief always changes people. And this is, after all, the description of the reconcilations these make. | |
| Ami | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| I am really looking forward to this story, Larner. I loved "Ties of Family", and this new story about those left behind will be just as poignant. I have a feeling, though, you will make us miss Frodo just as much as his family will. Author Reply: It's always difficult to lose someone well loved; and in this case where so many questions remain for those Frodo didn't take into his confidence, which included so many who knew and loved him so well, it's more difficult. Glad you are going to follow this one. It fits into gaps in "The Ties of Family" as well as serving as a sequel to "The Acceptable Sacrifice." | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| Oh Larner, I hadn’t expected a new story so soon, and certainly not this, but I’m so happy you’re writing it! Admittedly it didn’t exactly belong to ‚The Acceptable Sacrifice’, as that was Frodo's story, not to mention TAS was already the longest story at SoA, but I wanted to know more than the bits from your other fics about how this ended. Thank you *so* much for writing it! It’s good to see Paladin being back to normal. What a shock for him (and of course Saradoc), going to apologize to his son and to find Crickhollow empty! Thank godness the letters arrived just then and helped them to guess what truly happened, so they hadn’t to worry their sons would be away again for an unknown fate and length of time. Particularly as they just had to accept Bilbo and Frodo were both dying. I’m glad they didn’t continue to question Brendi. It must be rather difficult for him, knowing exactly what happened, but not able to tell them anything just now! Probably even more so as he himself loved Frodo so much and is very sad as well. Now I look forward to their meeting with Halladan, Gilfileg and Eregiel! Thank you again! *hugs* Author Reply: Well, it's your fault and Dreamflower's that this was written, you know! Hope you continue to enjoy it. For the two fathers to find their sons' house empty must have indeed been a shock; but they'd known this was the one day they'd be together and able perhaps to drag the lads away to Bree; and of course Frodo had planned for his letters to arrive too late for the recipients to try to track him down and cause him more distress. That both occurances happened on the same day was coincidence, of course--or as much a coincidence as can happen when the Creator has a hand in things, of couse. For Brendi this must be excruciating, bound as he is to keep his employer's secrecy, and knowing his own grief for Frodo's leaving. But the meeting with the King's kinsmen will happen. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/25/2006 |
| Oh! An Acceptable Sacrifice was Frodo's story. But now you continye with all of the others.How very wonderful! Author Reply: Yes, we see how the others come to their most needed reconciliations with one another and the fact of Frodo's leaving. Hope this fulfills its promise. | |