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| A Matter of Appearances by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 9/9/2006 |
| Tolly needs to get home. I'm not surprised he and Sam are riding through the night. Or, really, that Ferdi gets up off his all-but-deathbed to complain about burying a ruffian among the Tooks. Or that Farry is more worried about his Mum seeing his haircut than he is about the rest. Sometimes things like that seem to take on a bigger importance than ... other things. Good to see Boromir remembered - and with pride and love, too. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 9/6/2006 |
| Things do seem to be getting all a-muddle again. I hope Merry and Pippin do indeed make it back in time. There's been more than enough stress in Tookland of late, and at the Smials. Author Reply: No not really a-muddle, except for Ferdi, who'll be on the mend for some days yet. Merry and Pippin are arriving just in the nick of time, I find (am typing in the next chapter, and if only the read-aloud lasts long enough I'll have possession of the computer long enough to finish and post). The young ruffian's burial takes up the whole of the next chapter, and then we have the Naming Day celebration which ends the story. It was all supposed to be one chapter, but our Internet is so wonky these days I have had to break it up into manageable pieces. Thanks for hanging in there! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 9/6/2006 |
| I'm so glad they're doing this for Farry's sake. And they ought to have had the chance to do what they could for Boromir. Hmm. Another plot bunny? Author Reply: Hmmm. Could be, though it hasn't bit me yet. I have stories where they honour Boromir, remembering him, but nothing where they go back to Parth Galen. At least, not at the moment. Whew! Lunch break over, got to get back to school! | |
| cookiefleck | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 9/6/2006 |
| "All the while Nell’s and Sweetie’s voices were swirling in the air around him, flocks of pigeons too restless to roost." What marvelous writing! Author Reply: Thanks! I love to watch flocks of pigeons swooping and swirling; they are amazing birds. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 40 on 9/6/2006 |
| So, it looks as though they will all pretty much converge on the Great Smials at the same time--and in time, it looks, to lay the youngster to rest. Both Tolly, Sam, Pippin and Merry are all in for a pleasant shock, when they will arrive to find Ferdi there at the graveyard--alive and more or less well. And I do like the comparison of the youngster to Boromir. Of course, Merry and Pippin are quite right that Boromir was never a Ruffian. But thanks to the Ring, he *did* behave like one, for a few fateful moments--and he also paid for that moment of weakness with his life. The youngster, however, had at some point seemingly chosen willingly to take on the life of a ruffian, and was well down that path, when he is forced to encounter something that is just beyond what depravity he can do. Yet if the Fat one had not entrusted that cruel task to him, but to Red instead, he probably would have been grieved and sickened--but he would not have intervened. And then he would have tried to find a way to justify it to himself, and become the kind of hardened person the Fat one hoped to turn him into. I look forward to seeing the joy when Ferdi is revealed to be alive, and to hearing what sort of tribute Pippin and Farry find to give the youngster. Author Reply: Sam and Tolly will come a little belated--it looks like a ten- or twelve-hour trip from the Bounds, for them, for they have no pony-post ponies ready and waiting for a change of mount, but must ride their own as fast as they dare (not too fast, or they might use them up). After all, the ponies already made an overnight trip from the Hoard Hill to the Bounds. It is probable that they'll get back to the Smials shortly before teatime. Even the hobbits who rode with them to the Bounds probably won't get back until noontide. So Ferdi's in for being "discovered" several times this day. Wonder if he'll find it amusing or annoying? | |