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| Celeritas' Birthday Bash 2011 by Celeritas | 5 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/24/2011 |
| Yes we need a good education for our Boromir if he's going to be accompanying these on the quest! Author Reply: I concur! | |
| goldvermilion87 | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/31/2011 |
| I don't remember you bringing it up explicity in another fic, but I like the idea from Boromir that in his land intrigue is always a negative thing. Now I'm thinking about Bilbo's behavior and the "conspiracy unmasked" and hobbit character. Are they particularly intrigue-prone, but in a good way? Very interesting! Author Reply: I don't think all hobbits are--they're generally too dull--but Tooks and part-Tooks? Certainly! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/30/2011 |
| I love the Boromir/Bilbo interaction here. Boromir is not used to having to answer to anyone other than Denethor, that's for sure; he is certainly getting an education in other cultures! I like the implication that Boromir knows that Faramir is better than he is in observing and reading people. Bilbo is very much in character here, bossy with the privilege of age, but still courteous and curious. Author Reply: Thanks! Bilbo, I think, would milk every advantage out of age that he could get, as far as he could get away with it, and Boromir really is out of his element here! | |
| Adonnen Estenniel | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/30/2011 |
| This is wonderful. I think you hit upon how Boromir must have been feeling, after coming so far North. More than even Frodo and Co, I think he must have felt entirely out of his element. And I'm sure Bilbo's 'educating' didn't help matters at all. Perfect! Author Reply: He really must have. I don't think Bilbo's 'educating' helped at first, but Bilbo did mean well, after all, and traveling with so many people from so many different cultures would create possibly an even worse shock. I really do think he'd be better off learning about the North earlier than later. Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 7/30/2011 |
| This is thoroughly delightful. I love Boromir and Bilbo. Bilbo must have been such an oddity to him-- filled with humor, self-deprecating, and shrewd as all get-out! I wonder when it finally dawned on him that this elderly and seemingly comic person had actually outwitted a dragon? And this had me rolling: So: you wish to be educated about hobbits—and your first lesson is that you must start calling us that, we don’t go about calling you Doublings, you know— I once had Bilbo say something similar: "We don't go about calling you twice-as-tall-as-you-ought-to-be-lings!" I like yours better! Author Reply: I wondered who had said that line, and might have poached the concept, but it wasn't too hard to stretch it to "Doublings" from there. So thanks, and I hope you don't mind! Bilbo, especially when he gets sharp as a whip in his age, is a real hoot to write! | |