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| To Rescue a Damsel by Lindelea | 2 Review(s) |
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| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 2/22/2025 |
| Thank goodness someone has 'found' the young ones, and can be of help (or at least comfort). Author Reply: Whew! And since this story is intended to offer more fluff than angst, the comfort is just beginning... Thanks for reading and stopping to share your thoughts! | |
| Leithian | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 2/22/2025 |
| Dear Lindelea! I've finally started reading this story (was putting it off due to the tests) and it is really interesting. I feel as if I have been dropped right into the middle of the Great Smials. As someone who did not get into a lot of trouble as a child, rather watched on the sidelines, I find it all really entertaining. It is so much of a hard work isn't it, to get into trouble? Anyway, I like Farry's eye for planning and the way he and his friends are working to avoid the worst. I wonder what will happen when Goldi realises that Farry had planned for them to be found all along. I've also started reading some of your older works. "Answering machines of Middle Earth" was a lot of fun and now a certified headcanon of mine. Frodo's secret on the other hand was really sad. I never thought of Frodo's illness as being physical along with psychological, but now it does make sense. Reading through the older stories (they are even older than me) was quite an experience. It was interesting to see how this website Stories of Arda has evolved over the time. I could also see your great interest in Hobbits, it all seems a lot of fun. Honestly, I'm more of an Elf person, and while I absolutely adore the LoTR, I'm more at home in the Silmarillion. But your stories have also made me interested in the Hobbits, especially, with the rich cast of OCs as well as the characters that JRRT just named and left it at it. Someday I'll try to read them all. Thanks for your reply on my review on the last chapter of "A horse for Bandobras". I'll definitely check out "Beginnings" as soon as possible (I've only gained a very temporary respite from tests and assignments). BTW I adore your Author replies. They're almost as good as another chapter. Take care Author Reply: Oh my, tests and assignments. I remember how much effort and time investment is involved in studies. I'm glad if my stories can offer a respite of sorts. Best wishes for your studies! Your observation about the amount of work it takes to get in trouble is interesting to contemplate! I hadn't thought about it in just that way before, although I have sometimes thought that if criminals were to put the same amount of effort into doing something constructive as they put into committing crime, they might come out better. Your wondering about Goldi's reaction is interesting, too. I'm still thinking about that. You're right about Frodo's illness being psychological (or spiritual?) rather than physical, but as that idea never made sense to me, I wrote in several stories about his leaving being the result of physical symptoms. One of my first stories ("Jewels", not yet posted in full on SoA but it's on my to-do list) devotes only two or three chapters to the idea, but one of my longer stories, "A Small and Passing Thing", explores the time between releasing the prisoners from the Lock-holes and Frodo's sailing in detail. However, after finishing "Small and Passing Thing", I read one of JRRT's letters and realized that my story should properly be categorized as "AU" because Tolkien emphasizes that Frodo's malady is not physical. Ah, well. I don't feel any desire to rewrite that story to bring it in line with canon. It'll just have to stay as it is. One of my earlier stories (another long one, but at least the chapters are short) that sort of serves as the backbone of many of my Shire stories is "At the End of His Rope". Amazingly (to me, anyhow), the characters and plot devices and cultural characteristics introduced in that story (along with "Jewels" before it) have not required much adjustment as I've expanded my list of fanfics over the years. So I guess something in the back of my brain had a clear picture all through the process. I'm relieved to hear you enjoy my replies to reviews. Sometimes they seem long-winded to me, but they're a reflection of how much I enjoy contemplating this world and these characters that JRRT originated and shared with us. | |