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| Another Moment of your Time by Larner | 3 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 98 on 4/17/2023 |
| Happiest of birthday wishes! This story was beautifully done, as always. I so love the little details that bring the scene to life, like the green blanket with the dragonfly. Frodo was so understanding and compassionate, and he managed to offer so much comfort despite his own failing frame. This made wonderful comfort reading, yet the ending was both a shock of cold water and painfully poignant. I loved Frodo's wondering what Sam would think, and then Sam's actual reaction! Lovely! I hope that you came safely and uneventfully to your door once more. That birthday cake was a rare treat! Author Reply: Thanks so much for your insightful comments, Lindelea. The dragonfly blanket reappears at odd moments in my tales, and I so want it to have been passed on, down through Sam and Rosie's brood. Sam knows both his wife and his brother of the heart so well I'm certain he would see the situation as Frodo did, rejoicing that Rosie whn exhausted would ascribe the help and comfort she received as being from him, and that Frodo was willing to foresee what Sam would have done had he been home at that minute. As for the ending, how the realization he would probably leave Middle Earth must have haunted him if (when) Sam might have spoken of a future Frodo himself suspected (knew) would not happen. Yes, an uneventful return trip, and back to work on Tuesday. The solar system got its finishing touches today, and we await the replacement of a single panel and the final inspection prior to the switch being turned on, at which time PUD starts buying power from me for a change. Thanks for sharing the cake with me! | |
| Galadriel Gardner | Reviewed Chapter: 98 on 4/15/2023 |
| First, a happy, happy birthday, and many more! May God bless you in the coming year. This is so sweet! It’s endearing that Frodo has learned to recognize Elanor’s different cries as well as her parents have. I chuckled over poor tired Rose mistaking him for Sam. Love the way Frodo speaks to Elanor like a person who is perfectly capable of understanding what he says, as she undoubtedly is. The reunion at the end is sweet and a little sad, because indeed he won’t be there always. But I do believe he loved her always, her of all the thirteen children, as the one he was able to know. I love the detail in this story, as in all of yours, but especially the blanket made for infant Frodo and now passed on to Elanor, the nearest to a daughter he will ever have. Author Reply: In one ficlet I wrote Frodo is given his mother's hope chest. She'd filled it with items intended for each child she conceived, most of which hadn't graced the child originally intended to receive it. Now Frodo gives it to Rosie and Sam that their children might fulfill the hope worked into each gown, cap, blanket, quilt, and garment. I suspect each and every item was well loved and worn. Of course he speaks rationally to his niece, and she understands the love he gives her in each syllable. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 98 on 4/13/2023 |
| What a precious and unexpected experience for Frodo, to care for a baby and be part of a loving family... for as long as possible. Author Reply: Yes, for what time is left to him, here in the Shire. How he must have loved the Shire and the family it gifted him with! | |