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| An Unexpected Adventure by KathyG | 2 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 2/27/2025 |
| This morning when I signed in to do a bit of reading, I looked down the list of chapter titles. Even though I'd already read this one, I wanted to look up the song because it's one I didn't remember. Although I found (and listened to) the Disney version, the song of the same title that has been playing in my mind all morning is the Dionne Warwick version (with Elton John, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight), like a walk down memory lane. I just have to say, thank you (even if it was an accidental coincidence of song titles) for stirring this wonderful memory. Author Reply: There's a pop version of "That's What Friends Are For"? I didn't know that! K.G. Author Reply: There's a pop version of "That's What Friends Are For"? I didn't know that! K.G. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 11 on 2/26/2025 |
| "The children are going..." What a perfect excuse to send Merry and Pippin along! Faring much better together than apart sounds eminently logical. Ah, those short-tempered Tooks... That's how I've always imagined them, anyhow. Quite stubborn, too. Poor Merry and his memory of his grandfather's scolding! (Was one of the pies for Pippin?) I can just picture them hugging and dancing in joy when the news had sunk in. "Well, my lads," said Bilbo, "you are well and truly in the frying pan now. I hope that you may keep out of the fire." This sounds just like Bilbo. I went to the link for DF's story and read that one, too. I'm not sure I've seen it before? I didn't leave a review on it in the past, anyhow. I see it was posted to ffnet in 2012, during the time I was mostly away from fanfic, so it would make sense that I didn't see it. While I know that Elrond in the book said something about sending Merry and Pippin back to the Shire with a message, I never quite got the idea that another messenger went back. I was much crueler than you are (were letters from Bilbo, Merry and Pippin in one of DF's stories?); I left Paladin forced to name his successor, Saradoc to insist his son was still alive, and Rosie Cotton to have to go by her sudden feeling (was that in the Spring? I don't remember, exactly) that Sam was coming home. Oh, Freddy might have said something to the exasperated fathers, but it still stood that their sons had disappeared into the Old Forest. I don't know yet if any Brandybucks visited Bree during the year the Travellers were gone and discovered, at least, that they'd made it safely out of the Old Forest as far as Bree. (It's a question on my outline for the story The Farmer's Son, which has been quite politely insisting that other WIPs go first whilst it sits happily on the shelf.) He is probably worried about his son by now. That might just be the understatement of the year... Author Reply: In regards to Merry and Pippin, I can only agree! =) Stubborn, impatient, the works! Yep, that describes a Took, doesn't it? Bilbo would know! After all, he's been through it himself, thanks to his own adventure. And with that said, I reckon that Paladin and Saradoc are both worried about their sons by now! K.G. | |