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| Ancestress by Dreamflower | 3 Review(s) |
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| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 7/4/2012 |
| Twins are a handful, double the work but also double the joy. Sounds like they really had their ups and downs. Author Reply: Twins are a handful, double the work but also double the joy. Absolutely right! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 6/19/2012 |
| Aha--twinspeak! And the relationship between the two sounds most interesting! (I so wanted a twin sister....) Author Reply: I've never had a twin, of course, but this is based on a couple of my friends who were twins, as well as on some of my reading. | |
| Kaylee Arafinwiel | Reviewed Chapter: 43 on 6/19/2012 |
| Ha! You all but told me there'd be twin lasses, in my review for the twin lads! I love these two, even if they were notoriously difficult to figure out dates for! (And you could at least have said whether you liked my joke or not, even if you couldn't answer last chapter's questions. *grin*) Anyway, I'm glad Aster and Rowan made up...Herugar, eh? Bolger line in the making, I'm thinking! Hugs, Kaylee! Timeline, during the early years of the Third Age: -3 - Tūk and Adamanta are married. (Būk and Briar Rose are the names of Tūk's parents, Adamanta of course only has Eru (and one could argue for Yavanna), but I expect it would be odd to think they showed up in person. Lol!) 0 - Briar Rose's birth. She has blue eyes (like movie!Frodo, heh :) ) and dark hair. 3 - Briar Rose becomes a faunt. Raz is born. This is probably around the time Briar Rose follows Tūk about, receiving trinkets from him to keep. 5 - Adamanta "Addie" is born. 6/7 - Around this time, Kali and Ban are born.* 7 - Raz burns his fingers, wheedling biscuits from his gammer and ending up with an upset stomach. 8 - Addie is learning to talk and sing. 10/11 - Buttercup is born.* 13/14 - Buttercup becomes a faunt. Adamanta realizes she is with child.* 14/15 (or very late in 13) Būk, named for his grandfather, is born. 15 - The Wood-elf Galasgil comes to the village and makes a set of shepherd's pipes for Addie. He teaches her, as well as her brothers and sisters to read and write. 15/16 - Aster and Rowan are born. 16/17 - Around now, Galasgil departs, much to everyone's (but especially Addie's) dismay.* (16?) 17/18 - Būk finally learns to speak, though he speaks well from the beginning.** (25?) 26/27 - Būk learns to fish, and becomes an excellent angler. He also makes friends with a Stoor, and learns to swim. (Why do I suspect him of being a Brandybuck ancestor...?) (33?) 34/35 - Būk apprentices to his "Uncle" Gamba, Tūk's first cousin on his mother's side. (Is Briar Rose sister to Gamba's mother, or Gamba's father?) He becomes an excellent hole-builder. (This furthers my suspicions. *grin* I wouldn't be surprised if Būk married one of Gamba's daughters...) 35/36 - Aster and Rowan reach tweenhood. Sometime during their tweens, both discover lads, though Rowan is first to do so. Aster, however, is first to attract a lad, Herugar, from a Harfoot village, who she eventually weds (presumably *after* 48/49 or so, as nothing is said of them "putting the dessert before the main course" or any other such scandalous thing) Anyway, as you can see I love how Ancestress is coming along! The timeline is fun to make! Būk m. Briar Rose (at least one sister, Gerda, and one nephew, Gamba) 1 s. (Tūk) at least 2 (?) d. (unnamed) Tūk m. Adamanta 1. Briar Rose 2. Raz "Little Tūk" 3. Adamanta "Addie" 4. Kali (T) 5. Ban (T) 6. Buttercup 7. Būk 8. Aster (T) m. Herugar of the Harfoots (Harfeet? *grin*) 9. Rowan (T) 10. 11. 12. (1 lass, 2 lads left... :) and my guess would be even-numbered lads, odd-numbered lass, but we shall see...hehe.) Author Reply: Actually, I seemed to recall responding to your little joke, but when I went to look, it wasn't there. I guess I forgot to hit "submit", LOL! Anyway, it was cute! No, there was no putting the dessert before the main course! So I'd say your timeline is fairly accurate. There will be some information in the account of the last child (coming soon) which should allow you to tighten the timeline up a little more. As to your guess...either you've been peeking over my shoulder, or you have consulted a certain family tree in Appendix C...*grin* | |