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| Elf-root by Soledad | 4 Review(s) |
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| nancylea57 | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 11/2/2008 |
| once again them s-baggins and two feelings: GO Bifur!!!!!! love your isengard wonderful take on a returned hobbit, leaves us room to find our frodo later. just one barely worth mentioning problem and i had to check myself. Master Gorbadoc didn’t want him to become a child bride. gorbadoc won't want HER to be a child bride. i had to check because i could remember if gorb was his or her relative, it could have needed to be gorb didn't want him to take a child bride. but only barely worth mentioning because the story is fantastic fun. Author Reply: Thanks for pointing out the typo. It's fixed now. Gla dyou like the story. ;) | |
| Kitt Otter | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/31/2008 |
| Loved this chapter – full of surprises and some of my favorite Dwarves, not to mention Isengar. His life would be very interesting to read about, as would Hildifons’. Bifur a female??? Wonderful; I think I shall always recall that when I read the Hobbit. All the descriptions of those dishes had my mouth watering. I agree with Bilbo on that one cannot have too many mushrooms. *sigh* Tonight I’m just going to have to settle for candybars. So, that is the Elf-root! Why… what a dirty mind Lobelia has! She needed that smacking of Bifur’s. (Ha!) I love that Isengar lived with the Falathrim, since I am quite fond of him and Círdan. Lovely foreshadowing of Bilbo's eventual journey to the sea. -Kitt :) Author Reply: Well, I don't think that Bifur was canonically a female, but I liked the idea that s/he'd managed to fool everyone, including Bilbo. *g* As I said, I might one day write the stories of all those errant Tooks - I've just discovered a rejected one in Rateliff's "The History of The Hobbit" who also has promises. Just don't ask for a deadline... I'm looking forward to some exhausting RL issues right now. Yep, that's the Elf-root. As said, the whole story grew out of a LJ discussion about asparagus. I just never thought it would take me six chapters to actually introduce the poor vegetable. ;)) Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/30/2008 |
| LOL! So Bifur was a female, eh? And if any vegetable could be an Elven sort of vegetable, it would be the delicious asparagus! But the funniest thing of all was Lobelia getting smacked down for her dirty mind! I loved that! I eagerly await more! Author Reply: If any from Thorin's company was female, it would have been Bifur, I think. S/he came over as a very... caring Dwarf for me. And if anyone could smack down Lobelia, it would be a Dwarf-dam, I think. Actually, this whole story was inspired by the recent asparagus season. We had a talk on LJ about asparagus, about who likes it and who doesn't, and what a back-breaking work it is to grow it, and how many ways there are to prepare it... that sort of it. Then someone asked whether Hobbits would like it, and before I knew what was happening with me, I was knee-deep in the story. One more part to go, and then we're done. | |
| phyloxena | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/30/2008 |
| Very funny, and very clever and consistent. I am not sure I understand why Mad Took talks in somewhat folksy manner -- isn't he a gentlehobbit? Or is he so eccentric he even talks out of his class? Author Reply: The Mad Took had been living in some sort of exile since his return, as nobody wanted to have to do anything with such an irresponsible adventurer. I think he just got a bit rustic in all his loneliness. Happens to the best, when they hadn't have to talk with anyone else but the sheep or so for a while. *g* | |