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| One Who Sticks Closer than a Brother by Lindelea | 4 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/15/2006 |
| And indeed they do show where they stand--they show it all too well, I fear. Author Reply: They certainly do, for the most part. However, you cannot tar all ruffians with the same brush. Some are truly evil, and others are... well, let us simply say they have their reasons. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/15/2006 |
| Meadowsweet won't be happy when she realises she let Tolly disappear when he was ill - but she could hardly know there was anything wrong with him! Hindsight always suggests ways you should have known though and she's bound to feel guilty. Though the where's-Tolly squad probably won't feel so bad. Tolly has the kind of job that means he's not always where he's expected to be. But I hope they start looking soon. Or he'll be hyperthermic as well as everything else! Author Reply: Oh, that hindsight, certainly it can drive one mad. (Though not literally, thankfully.) | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/13/2006 |
| Of course, Meadowsweet thinkgs Tolly's gone out to work early, and his co-workers just think he's hungover and late...wonder when they will put the peices together? I liked Pippin's and Regi's discussion. The subject of the edict, or of the idea that being banned from the Shire is a solution to things, is a problem you and I have both grappled with. Now that the Shire is once more an active part of the Kingdom, it will be harder to maintain the illusion that shoving the Shire's troubles over the Bounds solves anything. Men who have broken the Ban deliberately are subject to harsh and summary justice; hobbits who have been wicked enough to deserve banishment are prey to the dangers outside the Shire. Or if the troublemakers *do* survive, it would be to spread their sorts of trouble and wickedness elsewhere. For generations, hobbits have gone about with blinders on, and now, for some of them, the blinders come off, and they begin to realize how sheltered they have been. At least when it comes to Men who have broken the Edict now, they are not simply run out of the Shire, but actually turned over to the authority of the King! Author Reply: Sometimes it's hard to put all the pieces together unless you get everyone in the same room at once. Will have to see about that. In any event, they'd better get cracking. The Edict is a thorny problem, isn't it? I wish JRRT had written more about it, the whys and wherefores, and what role it might have played in the ultimate dissolution of the Shire. Thanks! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/13/2006 |
| Now that is dark discussion for the first business of the morning. At least everybody agrees that it is unlike Tolly to be late. Just how long will it be before thet discover him missing! Author Reply: Not my favourite breakfast topic, for certain. And as far as your ending question... well, it could take a little time, seeing as how everyone has their own assumptions. We'll just have to hope for the best. | |