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Moments in Time  by Larner 10 Review(s)
Queen GaladrielReviewed Chapter: 45 on 12/21/2007
LOL! Oh my goodness, those two! Hahahaha! Hilarious! I need them around to help me invent (and carry out) pranks on certain dear persons of my…er, acquaintance. Even when I have an idea I never do it right and it always backfires…though this seems to have backfired on Merry and Pippin as well! And how long is it going to take Sam to “cool off?” Hehehehe!
God bless,
Galadriel


Author Reply: Yes, this one backfired a bit! It was fun to write, too. Having to sit in the tree past dinnertime might be seen as an appropriate punishment--or maybe Sam will keep them up there much of the night!

Be careful what you wish for--you just MIGHT get it!

Author Reply: Yes, this one backfired a bit! It was fun to write, too. Having to sit in the tree past dinnertime might be seen as an appropriate punishment--or maybe Sam will keep them up there much of the night!

Be careful what you wish for--you just MIGHT get it!

Linda HoylandReviewed Chapter: 45 on 12/3/2007
An amusing ficlet which is almost a drabble!

Author Reply: This was written in response to a challenge, and it was fun just to look at the immediate situation in this one.

This isn't even a drabble, being eighty-some words. Haven't done a proper drabble yet, I'm afraid. Am very glad it gave a giggle!

Pearl TookReviewed Chapter: 45 on 12/1/2007
That naughty little rascal! LOL LOL

Author Reply: As I wrote this I found myself thinking, "Grey Wonderer could well have done this!" Glad to give you a chuckle.

KittyReviewed Chapter: 45 on 12/1/2007
*lol* Hadn’t known Sam to be so violent! Though Pippin and Merry should have known better than to do that! Seems Frodo has to go and calm everyone down ...

Author Reply: Yes, that's the way of it, I think. Glad to give you a chuckle.

cookiefleckReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/30/2007
I wouldn't bet on Sam being cooled off by supper-time and I wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of Sam's frying pan, either! Cute one!

Author Reply: No, I wouldn't count on it, either. Poor young Hobbits, stuck up a tree as they are! Glad it gave you a giggle.

RadbooksReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/29/2007
*giggle* NEVER mess with Sam and his stuff!

Author Reply: No, it doesn't do to try to pull such a trick on Sam. It's fun now and then just to do fluff, I think.

shireboundReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/29/2007
Hah! These two are getting bread and water, assuming they get anything at all. Everyone knows that the cook is the most important person in any camp!

Author Reply: And this time the usual cook is most devoted to seeing to it these know such a thing better not happen again! Glad to give you a giggle.

Grey WondererReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/29/2007
I love this and I also think it so very like Pippin to think that Merry should have 'talked him out' of his brilliant idea. LOL Personally, I don't think they're getting down in time for dinner.

Author Reply: No, I think that they may get to sit up there for a time. Glad to give you a laugh.

EdlynReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/29/2007
LOL! I'm snickering out loud and getting some funny looks from the people sitting nearby. Very cute!

Author Reply: Oh, dear--don't want you getting into trouble at work! Glad to give you a giggle.

harrowcatReviewed Chapter: 45 on 11/29/2007
Hah, hah! Hobbit lesson number one; Never cross the cook!

(Needed that after your e.mail. Got to go checking that fact about the UK. I haven't heard it!)





Author Reply: Yes--one does NOT do well to pull such a prank on the one who is well placed to wield skillets!

Hope you got the note I forwarded from my friend as a follow-up to the earlier story. Actually, there are schools here in the States that have tried to push the Holocaust denial theory, although only religiously oriented ones, mostly very fundamentalistic in nature and several of them aligned with extremist groups, have been able to get away with it for long. But there are some political action groups that push the idea that it didn't happen.

One of the times my late husband was most moved was when we visited the camp site outside Dachau. There is a barn outside the camp, screened from sight by trees, to which the bodies used to be brought for cremation before they built the gas chamber-crematorium building. There was one oven in it that was not roped off as were the ones in the later building. Being able to set his hands in that oven and know how many individuals' bodies went through it brought the whole history of the camp home to him.

Nowadays the camp docents insist the gas chamber there was never used; former inmates and the testimony of those who liberated the camp say differently.

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