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| The Farmer's Son by Lindelea | 4 Review(s) |
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| Everlight | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 4/15/2014 |
| Oh dear! Poor Freddy! Stuck in Crickhollow with the Black Riders coming, how awful. Paladin is rather suspisios but not enough to do anything just yet. It won't be a pretty scene when Paladin finds out that Freddy lied to him. I'm feeling very sorry for him. Happy Easter to you. Author Reply: And Happy Easter back at you! The little bit of description JRRT wrote, of Freddy waiting for the Black Riders to come (though he might not have realised it so clearly at the time), reads like the finest suspense. I'm glad it doesn't cross the line into horror. Imagination is bad enough! Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 4/12/2014 |
| It would be such a worrisome turn of events, to not get any real word from Frodo and no mention of Pippin at all. Then, poor Freddy as he sits while the Black Riders approach the house, their Fear preceding them! (Shuddering myself!) Author Reply: It would be worrisome, although these hobbits tend to look on the bright side, and so they've found logical explanations for things. Of course, we know what's what, but they don't -- and won't really know what's happened until the Travellers return a little more than a year later! All they can do is piece together the information they do have. Poor Freddy... I think he's about to get more than he bargained for. Thanks! (Did you say you're coming down Easter week?) | |
| Garnet Took | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 4/12/2014 |
| Well, Paladin is starting to get suspecious that all isn't right but he's not worried enough. Maybe he should have headed for Buckland accept that it's already too late. It appears that Freddy is going to face his worst nightmare in a very short time. Of course, he face another nightmare when Paladin finds out he forged that letter and when both Paladin and Eglantine find out that he knew that Pippin was gone and didn't let them know. Maybe he'll escape that fate. Things are going to get interesting. Author Reply: You are an astute reader! I had to smile, reading your review. It's funny, but as I was writing this chapter (and a couple that follow), combing LOTR for clues, I learned something new about the whole Conspiracy-Crickhollow angle of the story. This turned out to be an important point, but it was something that had never struck me before! (And thankfully I so completely missed it when writing earlier stories, that they didn't turn out to be accidentally AU to JRRT's work, and I'm not going to be contradicting my own previous writing by noting it in this story, which makes the OCD part of myself much happier.) So, amazingly, the story remains new and fresh even as I re-read it for the umpteenth time. Tolkien was amazing. Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 4/12/2014 |
| Oh dear! Oh dear! Oh dear! Poor Freddy! And Paladin is going to be so confused when the timing of things comes out. I suppose he will eventually realize his note was not from Frodo, but in the meanwhile it muddies the waters considerably. Author Reply: Poor Paladin. I don't think things are going to clear up anytime soon, either... And poor Freddy, indeed! JRRT gives us just enough detail to be able to imagine what things were like in the little house at Crickhollow, the 29th through 30th. It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Good thing there doesn't seem to have been a cellar. ("Freddy! Don't go in the basement!" -- How many times have we said that to people on the big screen, who ignore our warnings and proceed to do just that! ...not that I've seen many horror movies, but I've heard many such plots recounted by siblings and friends... "Freddy! Don't open that door!") ...and now I'm reminded of those Angel creatures that my Whovian children tell me about. I was a Whovian when Tom Baker was the Doctor, but haven't seen much of the show since. | |