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Ancestress by Dreamflower	4 Review(s)
GamgeeFest	Reviewed Chapter: 44 on 7/4/2012
That must certainly have been a scary time for them all. Thankfully Adamanta remembered who she was. Author Reply: Yes, thank goodness! Or who knows what would have happened!

Kaylee Arafinwiel	Reviewed Chapter: 44 on 6/22/2012
Timeline, during the early years of the Third Age: -3 - Tûk and Adamanta are married. (Bûk and Briar Rose are the names of Tûk'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 Tûk 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) Bûk, 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 - Bûk finally learns to speak, though he speaks well from the beginning. 17/18 - Bildad is born, almost two years to the day after Aster and Rowan's birthday. (He has a Biblical-sounding name, actually...curious) Because he is born early, and both he and Adamanta are ill, he becomes the pet of the family. (Sounds like me, actually...hehe. (And to answer your question in the last chapter, no, I didn't even have that Tree in mind. facepalm I'm just a good guesser, I guess? LOL! But I do wonder, now, whether a certain little Gamgee (Gardner?) became the pet of Sam's family...) (25?) 26/27 - Bûk 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 - Bûk apprentices to his "Uncle" Gamba, Tûk'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 Bûk 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) Bûk m. Briar Rose (at least one sister, Gerda, and one nephew, Gamba) 1 s. (Tûk) at least 2 (?) d. (unnamed) Tûk m. Adamanta 1. Briar Rose 2. Raz "Little Tûk" 3. Adamanta "Addie" 4. Kali (T) 5. Ban (T) 6. Buttercup 7. Bûk 8. Aster (T) m. Herugar of the Harfoots (Harfeet? grin) 9. Rowan (T) 10. Bildad 11. 12.

	Reviewed Chapter: 44 on 6/22/2012
Timeline, during the early years of the Third Age: -3 - Tûk and Adamanta are married. (Bûk and Briar Rose are the names of Tûk'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 Tûk 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) Bûk, 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 - Bûk finally learns to speak, though he speaks well from the beginning. 17/18 - Bildad is born, almost two years to the day after Aster and Rowan's birthday. (He has a Biblical-sounding name, actually...curious) Because he is born early, and both he and Adamanta are ill, he becomes the pet of the family. (Sounds like me, actually...hehe. (And to answer your question in the last chapter, no, I didn't even have that Tree in mind. facepalm I'm just a good guesser, I guess? LOL! But I do wonder, now, whether a certain little Gamgee (Gardner?) became the pet of Sam's family...) (25?) 26/27 - Bûk 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 - Bûk apprentices to his "Uncle" Gamba, Tûk'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 Bûk 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) Bûk m. Briar Rose (at least one sister, Gerda, and one nephew, Gamba) 1 s. (Tûk) at least 2 (?) d. (unnamed) Tûk m. Adamanta 1. Briar Rose 2. Raz "Little Tûk" 3. Adamanta "Addie" 4. Kali (T) 5. Ban (T) 6. Buttercup 7. Bûk 8. Aster (T) m. Herugar of the Harfoots (Harfeet? grin) 9. Rowan (T) 10. Bildad 11. 12.

Larner	Reviewed Chapter: 44 on 6/21/2012
Too long in one shape, and she came so close to losing her hold on her true nature! This one appears to be in many ways the one most like Frodo, it would seem. Author Reply: Yes; JRRT indicates that could be possible, and that bearing children would exacerbate that tendency! But Adamanta's work is far from done-- so she recalled herself in time. Remember that down the line the blood of many of these children will once again be mingled...

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