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| Trotter by Dreamflower | 7 Review(s) |
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| Kaylee Arafinwiel | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 4/2/2015 |
| "Freckles"! Poor Nethon! Oh, lad, you should not have been so careless! Heh! Well, at least Hildifons feels sorry for him. And maybe he'll get a better name later, who knows? Fornost does sound amazing! | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 7/8/2009 |
| I like the way he considers going home now and again. It makes it seem more as if he still cares for his family. His ability to remain away from them all of this time is very unhobbit-like and yet, knowing his reasoning makes it seem as if it might have happened just that way. I like his loyalty to the Rangers too. He reminds me of Bilbo when he says that 'the Rangers need him.' | |
| Celeritas | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 6/6/2009 |
| I love this aside about the honorable Dunlendings! (Gee, that's really something you only see in tales.) Fornost must have been an amazing place, even in ruins. *geeks out* Author Reply: A few years back, I read an Aragorn story (alas, can't remember author or title) but it involved a group of the Dunlendings, who turned out to have a strict, though crude, warrior code of honor. The idea kind of stuck with me. I'm sure it was! Author Reply: A few years back, I read an Aragorn story (alas, can't remember author or title) but it involved a group of the Dunlendings, who turned out to have a strict, though crude, warrior code of honor. The idea kind of stuck with me. I'm sure it was! | |
| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 5/30/2009 |
| Dear Trotter, a couple of thousand 'somedays' have already passed you by. When are you going to admit to yourself that you are never going home? But perhaps admitting it would make you feel truly uprooted and alone. So long as the promise of home and family are still there, you can face the wondering with a strong heart, just as one of your future kin will look to home as a stronghold when he is in the wilds on an impossible quest. DF, your hints of all his various adventures are fascinating. They make me want to know more about these Dunlanders and the ruffians that they encounter. Yet at the same time, they are written about in such a casual, flippant way, that I'm almost dreading when it becomes necessary to elaborate more. I keep waiting for that "Million Dollar Baby" moment. (I hope you've seen that movie, otherwise that reference will be completely lost.) *sits on edge of seat* Author Reply: Yes, Trotter is deluding himself with all of those "somedays", though he still believes that "someday" will come. But I think you are right-- just knowing it's all there gives him strength, just as it did in another generation of hobbits. I do think you know another shoe will drop-- and soon, actually... (Haven't actually *seen* it, but heard enough to know what you mean!) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 5/30/2009 |
| Ah--a Ranger indeed he has become, and, as I envision the Hobbit who served Arvedui, also serving as a scout! Marvelous! Glad the Dunlendings were willing to keep their word. Author Reply: Yes, I do think that scout would be the most logical task for a hobbit Ranger. He'd be able to move more quietly than any save an Elf, and his natural abilities to stay hidden would also come in handy. I read a fic about a year or two ago, in which the Dunlendings were portrayed as having a rather crude but strict warrior code of honor, and I rather liked the portrayal, though I do not remember much else about the story, including who wrote it. Pity, because I'd rather like to read it again--but it was on the MEFAs and rather ran together with a lot of other stories I read that year. | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 5/30/2009 |
| But I had a strong feeling that if once I returned, I should never get away again-- and my fellow Rangers needed me. That's very true! No ranger will ever be as stealthy and silent as a hobbit! But, even if he does not say so directly, good old Trotter would love to see his family and the Shire again. While on the other hand he fears to never see the rangers again. Poor hobbit! P.S.: Do you have a deadline for this story? I wished it would go on for many more chapters! Author Reply: Well, he's quite one of them now! He would love to see them. However, he would not love all the explanations he would have to make, and all the reproaches he'd have to endure for staying away for so long. Not to mention all the gossip he'd cause. Yes, I do. Tuesday. | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 5/30/2009 |
| I have the feeling that poor Hildifons will never go home; or if he does; it will be only for a quick and secret visit after most of the hobbits he knew have passed away. Trotter's excitement about the ruins of Fornost makes me hope that one day he could see Minas Tirith; though that is unlikely. Loved the bit about Nethon getting the Ranger-nickname of Freckles - poor kid! Author Reply: Your feeling is quite right, according the Took Family Tree: he went away on a journey and never returned. Oh, wouldn't he be excited! But no, it's rather unlikely at this point! Yep-- poor Nethon! But at least his friends have pity on him and don't use it among themselves! | |