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| The Time of Probing by Larner | 5 Review(s) |
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| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/20/2013 |
| The famous standard, used to create a nice and comforting image! If we regard Frodo as the standard bearer, then he has many friends that night who do all to protect him: the other hobbits, Gandalf, Aragorn and all the Elves of Elrond's household! Author Reply: Oh, what a wonderful comparison between Frodo and Halbarad here! Thank you so very much, Andrea! | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/6/2013 |
| This is very poignant as we know what happens to Halbarad.I like the way Arwen plays an active part. Author Reply: I cannot imagine that Aragorn would fall in love with a woman who was merely an ideal. She had to have her own personality and greatnesses or he would not have remained as constant as he did. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 7/30/2013 |
| Sorry to have missed this chapter somehow. I like the description of standards and standard bearers - appeals to the medieval part of me and also I am grateful for the distraction it must have given Sam from his worries. I love that Arwen is keeping watch, encouraging Frodo to drink and singing that lullaby at the end. No wonder both hobbits slept peacefully! :) Also love the general loving care given to Frodo by the other singing Elves. Namarie, god bless, Antane :) Author Reply: I have a feeling that Frodo received a good deal of loving care during the days he was comatose that he probably wasn't told in detail later. And I have always thought Arwen likely to be working on the standard as she watched over those who came into her father's house, particularly in the darkest hours. Thank you so very much! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 7/28/2013 |
| This song lulled Sam into sleep, and in it he saw that the Sun, Moon, and stars were being invoked to allow their combined Light to shower down upon the spirit of Frodo Baggins, to remind him that his own Light was a delight to the Creator, that he must not surrender it vainly to the powers of darkness. Oh my, that's wonderful. And I appreciate how Arwen was fully aware of the sacrifice of a standard bearer, especially the one who would carry this particular standard. Author Reply: Arwen is as much the descendant of Luthien, Idril, Earendil, and Elwing as are her father and Aragorn, and should have her own portion of the gift of foresight as these others have manifested. Plus, she is the granddaughter to Galadriel, whose foresight is legendary. I would think that she knew there was a very great chance that the first to serve as Aragorn's standard bearer would die, and she may well have recognized whom that should prove to be. And I would think that the High Elves of Imladris would invoke the Valar and all beings devoted to the Light to aid this one already recognized as being perhaps intended to serve as the Ringbearer to the destruction of the Ring's evil. Thanks so very much, Shirebound. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 7/28/2013 |
| I love this glimpse of Arwen at work on the famous standard! Author Reply: I thought that it would be appropriate that she would be working on the last touches of it as rapidly as possible at this point. And I think that Sam should appreciate that whoever volunteered to carry it would be possibly offering his life for the one for whom it had been wrought. Sam and Halbarad had a good deal in common, I've always felt. | |