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| An Unexpected Adventure by KathyG | 1 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 4/1/2025 |
| "Well, I daresay you might be too little in your mother's kitchen, but you wouldn't be too little in mine! Oh gosh, every child's dream: a living space built to their scale. Kaylee's mother is going to be quite surprised at her little daughter's acquired skills with Bilbo as her cooking teacher! Cream of mushroom soup? (As an interpreter at a historic site, I learned to cook in an 1840s kitchen. Bilbo's kitchen sounds very familiar!) Leave it to Boromir to be exasperated at a cave troll. “Here’s a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven-princeling in!” has always been one of my favourite speeches of Aragorn's. (And now I'm wondering just how AU this story might be. Will Gandalf still fall in Moria? Drat. I got my answer already.) That scene after they escape from the mines, with hollow-eyed Frodo walking aimlessly, grieving Sam, and a devastated Merry cradling a guilt-ridden and heart-broken Pippin, has haunted me from the first time I saw the film. It was incredibly well-staged and acted, so much so that it still feels real to me all these years later. Author Reply: I'll say that Gail will be! =) And I agree about Bilbo's living space! Some kind of mushroom soup, at any rate! Dreamflower knows better than I do what kind. It was such a sad scene, indeed--in the book and the movie! Not so AU that Gandalf was spared, as you discovered. | |