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| When Winter Fell by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 11/27/2006 |
| Ah, he feels left out, does he? Poor young Hobbit--but one who in the end will regret it when Isengar goes to leave them at last. And the emotions are so true to what I've known myself from time to time. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 9/30/2006 |
| a p.s. i just looked at the other reviews after I posted mine. Charming little real-life tales, Deramflower and Lindelea! | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 9/30/2006 |
| hmmm.Resentment, envy, embarrassment, all very un-Hobbity emotions! Young Bilbo sounds like my own son when he was in Junior High. (Come to think of it, even now that he is grown, he still thinks his mom is a bit daft!) Isn't there, written in some cosmic guidebook somewhere, a rule that parents are expected to embarrass their younglings? Belladonna's brother is fortunate to have a patient, understanding brother-in-law who will open his home. I can see where Bilbo learned to become the accepting, loving person he was when he grew. And, ironic, isn't it? The young Hobbit who hid his head from the "singing society" became "Mad Baggins" who composed walking songs, lays about elves, and went adventuring with Dwarves! And eventually did go to sea himself. Lovely chapter. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 8/2/2006 |
| While feeling a little sorry for Bilbo - adolescents find their adult kin cringingly embarrassing at the best of times - I'm looking forward to him becoming rather less sensitive to what people think and rather more understanding of how people feel. Fortunately he will have a long hard winter ahead of him in which to mature. Like a good cheese. Author Reply: Yes, he'll have his ups and downs, but really, with such parents I cannot see him remaining sullen and resentful for terribly long. (Not to mention, such an attitude seems most unBilbo-ish.) | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 7/31/2006 |
| Oh dear! I am chuckling so hard it hurts, and yet I do feel for poor little Bilbo, caught by you so perfectly in that self-centered self-inflicted mortification so typical of a young adolescent! They are so adorably easy to embarrass at that age, LOL! (I remember being with my son in the public library when he was about 11 or 12, and when I was ready to go, I went by and sharply but softly called his name. I don't believe another soul heard me, nor was anyone else there that we knew, but his face flamed and he was furious. All the way home, I heard about how I had "humiliated" him by "hollering" his name as though he were a "baby" who had to go everywhere with his *mother*! LOL!) Author Reply: How I remember being embarassed (and I don't know how to spell it!) in my adolescence. I heard an anecdote at Bible study last week, when someone in our group was talking about how she knew that this was the right church for them. They'd just met the pastor, who lived in their neighbourhood, so she knew who he was... anyhow, there was a group of adolescent boys waiting on the corner for the school bus, and then this sporty car drove up and the driver tootled the horn and rolled down the window and gestured to one of the boys. "Come here!" And the gangling lad went over to the car, and his dad (for it was his dad, and the pastor in question) grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him down and laid a smacking kiss on the top of his head, and then let him go, the kid blushing bright red, but grinning ear-to-ear. And the other boys razzed him a bit when he returned to the group, and he just shrugged and said (rather proudly, by all reports) "Yeah, that's my dad." | |