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| Healing the Blessed Isle by shirebound | 11 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 8/19/2016 |
| 'But what I can do, I will do.' It's all any of us can do, really -- we'll none of us have time for everything we would wish to accomplish.... Still enjoying! :-) Author Reply: It really is all any of us can do. And with luck, we'll find as much contentment as Gimli as he rediscovers his skills and crafts love-filled gifts for his friends. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/25/2016 |
| Strawberry pie, indeed! *grin* This sweet story just continues to delight me. I love the way once Gimli's mind begins running to the thought of gifts he just can't stop! Author Reply: Yay, I'm glad you're enjoying this. I spent hours yesterday working on chapter 6 (the final chapter), which wasn't 'work' at all. It's such a joy to give Gimli such a wonderful experience. | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/24/2016 |
| As they walked outside, with Frodo beside him, the final piece for which he had been searching slid into place. I am needed here. And I thought it couldn't get better! But it did! Now Gimli can help his friends with his work. And that will make not only their lives better, but his as well. Author Reply: Dear Gimli! It's such a joy to imagine this happiness for him. Thank you so much, Andrea. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/23/2016 |
| What a lovely chapter! I'm so glad Gimli has a renewed sense of purpose. Author Reply: Thank you! *beams* | |
| LavenderTook | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/20/2016 |
| Oh what a wonderful last line! What mutual joys of love they all have for each other. I needed that this week. *hugs you* Author Reply: What mutual joys of love they all have for each other. Just like our wonderful group o' gals! I love how you say that. I'm so happy this gave you cheer this week. That's about the best compliment I could ever get. *hugs* | |
| layne | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/20/2016 |
| I'm so happy that Gimli has found his niche there <3<3<3 And strawberry pie YUM!!!! Author Reply: *cuts you a slice* Dear Gimli! I know that helping 'his hobbits' to feel comfortable and enjoy their life more would bring him joy. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/19/2016 |
| And to know one is needed is so necessary to so many of us. Wonderful to see him find fulfillment and purpose once more! And may all rejoice in what they see beneath the island. Author Reply: Truly, being needed and finding one's purpose would be an enormous part of anyone's healing. | |
| MikoNoNyte | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/19/2016 |
| Gimli enjoying Sam's pie (in a square pan and I had to laugh -- not because it's amusing... it is!... but because it make perfect sense: You use what you have! (And I do it often! LOL) And the sudden largesse for Legolas -- we don't often think about the healing aspect of gift giving but it IS one of the many ancient Ways of humankind. Whether it be a gift of bread and salt, water or wine, a new chair, dress or shawl (many of these I've gifted) the giving is just as equally healing for the giver as the receiver. Our dear friend Gimli - always a generous soul - is well on the way toward healing fulfillment. What a dear! And let me not forget how you tweeked my heart with Elrond! One of my all-time favorite elves going back to The Hobbit days (when he was not so much an elf). All those years spent in Ennorath, learning and gaining much wisdom and insight... he must suddenly feel incompatible with things around Valinor! Questions he has to "exceed the number of stars" makes me think he too is finding something worth being there for. More can be learned, always! Shirebound, I am well and truly slain with your final line "I am needed here." That encompasses all things, all thoughts, emotions and fears. To be needed. Greatest Healing EVER! Thank you so much! Author Reply: Thank you! That final line took me by surprise, as well. Sometimes a chapter insists on what it needs to say even if you haven't planned it. The books imply that Frodo needs the majority of the healing, but to be called West can be called to a new life that continues your growth: learning and teaching, giving and receiving. the giving is just as equally healing for the giver as the receiver Ohhh, so true, as you've discovered. There should be enough for Gimli to imagine, craft, and give for many, many years to come. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/19/2016 |
| Another wonderful chapter! I love that Gimli is rediscovering his joy and what he could do with the skill Aule and Iluvatar blessed him with. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Thank you, Antane. Writing about Gimli over the years has hopefully helped me to have more insight into our dear Dwarf. | |
| UTfrog | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 7/18/2016 |
| Lovely, lovely story. Author Reply: Thank you. I appreciate your kind words very much. | |