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| A Small and Passing Thing by Lindelea | 7 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 4/23/2023 |
| Freddy, then. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 4/23/2023 |
| So now is the time for the cousins to add in their own bits. Good, then. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 9/3/2011 |
| I love this chapter - Sam's amazement that he is in a book himself like he wanted and saying that it is was to remember but it was important that everything be written down right. We are indebted to him, Frodo and Freddy. Have you read Toward the Gleam that just came out? It's about the Professor's discovery of the Red Book. You will love it! I know how long it takes to write a book since I am writing one myself - about them! - and I too destroy my old notes. I love having another thing in common with my beloved fellow scribe. :) Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 11/3/2003 | |
| LOL! ‘Now remember, cousin, “travelling” has two Ls in it; remember that and you’ll go far.’ and waggons has two Gs, and Shirriffs has a lot of Is and Rs and Fs. There are a lot of varriants in my spell checker now, and I have to be very carefull of those creative spellings not to use them in the wrrong contextses! So Frodo has finished writing of his path, and has come through it fairly well. I had always had the suspicion that reliving his own memories increased the mental torment rather than releasing it, but you're not writing it that way. Although his insistance on not grieving Merry and Pippin by making them remember hints that his own efforts may have been somewhat painful. No more additions to the red book, until he's heard it all again from Merry and Pippin's perspective. I'm sure he's heard the outlines of their stories, but many of the details may be new to him. We've left the theme of writing, or not writing, the details of the story for quite a few chapters. It comes back in a bit in Sam and Freddy's words, ’It has not been easy, Mr Freddy,’ Sam said, ‘but I think it’s been needful. This story oughtn’t be forgotten, you know. It’ll be one of the Great Tales one day, and we who lived it are the only ones to make sure the facts are set down right and proper.’ ’You see, cousin?’ Freddy said meaningfully. ‘Sam here lived through the worst I can imagine, as did you, and yet he thinks it worth writing down, as you must or why would you have put all this work in? Freddy seems to think that the story is worth recording, although he says nothing of who might read it. Frodo had asked him once to tell him if he thought the details were too horrible for the ears of hobbits, and now Freddy's read the worst of what happened to Frodo and Sam. I'll be curious to see how much he tells his father in the coach, if you're showing that scene. The question is bound to come up again when Frodo asks Merry to recount his capture by the Uruk-hai, the horror of the Witch-King and the death and blood of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. I'm sure it's an argument that's not resolved yet. | |
| Tim the Enchanter | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 11/1/2003 |
| Freddy makes a good beta! | |
| Tim the Enchanter | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 11/1/2003 |
| Freddy makes a good beta! | |
| katakanadian | Reviewed Chapter: 57 on 11/1/2003 |
| That was a very nice tribute to betas. You make it so easy for people by writing so well in the first place. | |