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| Runaway by Lindelea | 2 Review(s) |
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| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/8/2003 |
| You can't know how happy I am to see this story start. I missed you horribly over the weekend. I must have checked a dozen times - no updates, no updates. Then I read that you would be without computer access over the weekend, so I stopped checking, but I still felt lost. Pretty silly, hmmm? Nice start. I figured out pretty soon that it was Farry who was being tracked, but could only hope that it was Ferdi doing the tracking. It caught me up a bit as he started laying a fire - at first I thought of the scene in 'The Hobbit' where the orcs set fire around fifteen birds in five fir trees - sometimes I see Ruffians everywhere. I wonder just how small a ten-year-old hobbit lad is, and if a full grown fox is big enough to take one down? I guess so - he's probably less than than 2 foot tall - I had never thought of it before, but I tend to forget how small the hobbits are, when there's no big people around to provide a reference (they're just that real to me). It makes the attacks by wolves in the Fell Winter (and those on Bilbo's group or the Fellowship's quest) all that scarier to contemplate. Ferdi's emotions as he comes to the end of the trail are so well described, without a word of dialog needed to show his thoughts. He'd come too late, all there would be is a piece of bloodied cloth to take back to Pip and Diamond. As a father now himself, his heart must have been breaking. No mention here that it would be worth his job, and possibly much more, to have lost Farry permanently. That doesn't come up until later, when things are more under control. Faramir's smart, but he's only ten. He figured he wouldn't be missed if he ran while Pippin was in Buckland. But he didn't count on Ferdi's dedication to duty. Are the rest of the escort out looking too, or did they accompany Pippin? Farry's jealous of a new baby. But there's also reference to "events of the past few years": is Faramir hoping that if he's not there, the new baby will have more of a chance for survival than the last, or has the talk of the Tooks punished him since the death of his cousin Adelgrim? (Probably both) And what else has happened in two years? Clever of Ferdi to give him a chance to save face, and come down himself, though it doesn't work. Ferdi's two steps ahead, as always. He'll help Farry to run away properly - less dangerous for the hobbit lad, he can give a better report to Pippin, and perhaps someone will recognize the chronic problem Ferdi sees. Can't wait to see what comes next. By the way, did I mention I'm glad you're back? | |
| Hai | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/8/2003 |
| Good Ferdi! He is so smart with the younger hobbits. I really like how you have given him character! You write hobbits so wonderfully! I'm looking forward to more! Don't forget ff.net now, I always check there first and not always here (unless they are having a problem over there) Author Reply: I haven't forgotten ff.net, simply have been having problems posting new chapters there. If it is not a "site busy--please try again later" message, it is a "proxy error". Still, even if I don't get a chapter posted there first, I always manage to get it posted later. The other problem is that I *am* posting over there, but author alerts have not been going out, at least as far as I can tell, for the most recent chapters. This might be related to those same "proxy error" messages I've been getting when updating. Author Reply: oops, forgot to say Thanks for the review! | |