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| Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time by Dreamflower | 5 Review(s) |
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| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 8/19/2012 |
| Oh dear! And winter has just begun! (Perfect title, btw) Does it really sound like fireworks? I've only seen the results of ice storms, broken branches mostly. Author Reply: JRRT gave me some great title material for these particular chapters! Well, actually, to me it sounded more like gunshots-- but so do some fireworks, and that's more like something Bilbo would have heard than gunshots! But, yes, it's that sharp explosion-y sort of sound! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 8/13/2012 |
| Too much of anything can be devastating, as you have certainly experienced more than once. Have seen one ice storm such as described here, a couple of tornados, and my share of nasty windstorms here and abroad, as well as several floods. Each is a marvel to experience and to evaluate afterwards, I've found. Author Reply: Absolutely! Natural disasters are sort of a marvel, but still, they are experiences I would rather avoid when possible! Yet they are valuable experiences as well. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 8/13/2012 |
| if they could sacrifice their elevenses and their tea, he could sacrifice first breakfast at least. *sniff* Such a hardship for our beloved hobbits, but they are always resilient and practical. Author Reply: I think it would be common in times of hardship for the parents to stint themselves for the children. But I think young Bilbo is very special in realizing that he can try to do something for his parents as well. They are resilient and practical, and both qualities will be sorely tried as the Fell Winter comes upon them. But there will be lots of comfort, too! | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 8/13/2012 |
| Only dread indeed! And this is only Blotmath.... They'll all be glad of that wood before the winter's over ... will wish they had more. There's a mountainous (not simply hilly) community about ten miles from me which is infamous for large numbers of trees falling in ice storms; every few years it's just devastated (the tree guys and landscapers from all over the county are kept busy for months). My brother was visiting recently for my mother's birthday. We ate at a restaurant in that town which looks down over a valley with a golf course, and my brother asked, "Didn't there used to be a lot more trees?" because a significant number of the oldest pines were gone (no shortage of other trees, though). Luckily I'm about about 1000' lower and haven't lost any trees to ice -- though I could happily spare some of the neighbor's 50' Leyland cypress hedge that shades my garden. Author Reply: They will be very glad of the wood. I had never realized what an ice storm could do to trees! But our second winter after we moved here they had a dreadful one, and we literally jumped from our beds at the sound of what we thought was gunfire on the street! Some of the trees, it seemed, literally exploded. We were stunned at the damage! Luckily none of the damaged trees were ours-- our lot had no trees when we moved in, and the two we'd planted were too small to be damaged. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 8/13/2012 |
| I feel for Bilbo and his parents for stinting themselves. That poor tween but his heart is in the right place to see that his parents had more for breakfast. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Yes, it is! He has a goodly store of Pity, even at this age! | |