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| Keep Alive the Memory by Celeritas | 7 Review(s) |
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| Kara's Aunty | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 3/14/2009 |
| Hello Celeritas, poor Kira. What a think to be denied; the joy of reading - especially for a lass with such an active mind. Hopefully, she'll find a way around this problem... M ;) Author Reply: Kira can't necessarily find a way around the problem, but other people will--to an extent--for her. | |
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 1/1/2009 |
| Yikes! A VERY poor decision IMHO..... Author Reply: Yeah, it may work in the short term, but in the long term they're just shooting themselves in the foot and it is not altruistic in the least. Even worse, it's consigning Kira to a very difficult life, at least until she's of age, and this after they've all said they don't blame her. *facepalm* | |
| curiouswombat | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/31/2008 |
| Oh I so want to knock a few hobbit heads together - none of them Kira's. Author Reply: All right, but you'll have to get to the end of the line... lol! | |
| Virtuella | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/31/2008 |
| Aha. It seems that the descendants of the Travellers have not really pulled their weight and by keeping the memory within their families have become as much to blame for the general ignorance as the narrow-minded common hobbits are. And now they want to lock up their books even more. I wonder if anything will change their minds? Author Reply: Well, something happened initially to make them direct their minds towards this approach. But Kira's generation of readers (Kerry and Sandra, for instance) seems to be against that, so hopefully eventually things will turn around. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/30/2008 |
| How sad; that they want to shut in all that knowledge and history. The last paragraph is particularly vivid and expressive. I hope there's a better end in store. Author Reply: I do like writing Kira's dreams; they give me a different way of expressing exactly what she's thinking. There must, of course, eventually be a good enough end in store that hobbits are willing to keep enough copies around for Tolkien to get his hands on one; and while the Thain's approach may be helpful in the short term, in the long term it's just going to stymie interest in the past, within the Travellers' families as well as outside them. But I hope the last chapter of this tale will give Kira enough hope that I can satisfactorily draw this portion of her life to a close. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/30/2008 |
| *blink* *blink*blink* So, let me get this straight: Pippin's heir thinks that it will be better if books are kept locked up so no one can read them except the people who already *have* read them. Uh-huh! Yeah. It's a crying shame he *can't* have a visitation from his illustrious ancestor! I think Pippin would give him what-for, for such backward thinking!! I like Sam's descendant very much. He got to the real heart of the matter: It’s high time we had a talk with the person who was actually responsible for the loss of the book, isn’t it?” Yes, it is. And I know that this is all Kira's POV, but I most certainly hope we get an account of Tom's encounter with the Big Brass. Author Reply: ...Yup. And it took about 4 pages of backstory to square away Auduin's character with that of his illustrious ancestor. It's a good story, if I ever get around to it... anyway, suffice it to say that Kira does NOT like the Thain very much, at all, and rather wishes that Pippin's shade would come back just to disown him. But Holfast really is a nice one. That quoted bit only actually made it in today as I realized that I had never addressed what happened to Tom, and something did need to happen to him as an immediate consequence of his actions (aside from the licking he's already gotten from his dad. The really long-term consequences won't come for a while yet, but when they do they'll be gooooood *cackles*). Unfortunately the encounter happens right after this tale ends (I'll try to slip in a mention of it somewhere in the sequel) and although I don't know if Kira ever figures out exactly what happened she teases Tom mercilessly for it. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/30/2008 |
| So, not teaching and not learning will somehow keep folks safe? What a crock! Author Reply: ...Yeah, pretty much. (In case you couldn't tell, this chapter is a shameless setup for the sequel.) | |