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| Through the Eyes of Maia and Wizard by Larner | 5 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/14/2016 |
| Shire, not Shore... :-P | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 10/14/2016 |
| I like the idea of Gandalf just sitting around and visiting, discussing Shore happenings, no matter what the topic. As for Lotho...I'm sure he does feel like it would give him a sense of power over others. Those are definitely the ones to watch for... Author Reply: Oh, don't we know it! Those who think that a particular position will make them somehow omnipotent scare me, you know. Thanks so! (And considering some of my typos, I can't fault yours! Peek and peak are two of my worst bugaboos.) | |
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 3/12/2012 |
| "a farmer who’s had a half or two too many into going home to bed before he becomes too much of an embarrassment by becoming maudlin and repetitive" Giggles - I loved that this was thought to be almost as bad as breaking up te common room! Nicely written. Lotho was no good. Glad he didn't get the Shiriff's position, but we all know what happened down the road! Author Reply: My husband twice considered buying a tavern, which in the end he reconsidered, thank Heaven. I'm not certain which is harder to put up with, the maudlin drunk or the belligerent one. Both are very hard for me to bear, particularly as I don't tend to drink more than an ounce or two of wine at a time anyway. And I just can't imagine Lotho would have been good Shiriff material to begin with; yet the minute he was pretty certain he could get away with it he appointed himself "Chief Shiriff" and put Will Whitfoot into the Lockholes, effectively making himself the tyrant of the Shire until Sharkey arrived and put an end to him. So, I have found myself imagining that he had wanted to be a Shiriff earlier and had been rebuffed, so he decided to make himself one anyway. | |
| 6336 | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 3/12/2012 |
| Some how I don't think the idea of being a Sheriff was Lotho's, I have the feeling the idea came from a certain Mr. White! Huggs, Lynda Author Reply: Perhaps, although I doubt Lotho's able to discuss it at this point. Heh! Thanks so, Lynda! | |
| Teresa | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 3/12/2012 |
| Sighs......and how right Gandalf's premonition was! But of course none of the Hobbits could even dream that Lotho would do such terrible things to the Shire and its inhabitants out of jealousy and envy. I've always wondered if Sauruman went to a hobbit that was a distant connection of Gandalf's close friends deliberetly. It can't have been merly chance that someone who had a major feud with Frodo and Bilbo became Sauruman's agent. I can see Sauruman fanning Lotho's envy and subtly directing his actions to become the"Chief". And Lotho, poor fool, had know idea that he'd made such a terrible bargin until Saruman's troops and then he himself moved openly against Lotho. Many thanks for an intriguing vignette! :) Author Reply: I very much suspect that you have the right of it, Teresa. No, Lotho had no idea of just how bad a bargain he'd made until he found himself a prisoner within Bag End, and found Wormtongue's knife at his own throat one night. And thank you for the feedback! | |