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| Useless Heroes, Uselesser Villains by Virtuella | 3 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 6/15/2025 |
| Actually, you could have posted a chapter with no text, and just the title would have left me laughing... I'm glad you didn't do that, though, for I am looking forward to reading the text. In reading, I kept thinking the observations here go well with the Elvish chapters of my "Answering Machines in Middle-earth" which the mods (perhaps reluctantly) allowed to remain on the site despite its modernish elements. Bless them. Glassless windows... a bug? or a feature? Gah! How I hate evaluation forms. Do people even *read* the things, or do they just have a checkbox in the management plan that they feel better when they check it off? ("Distribute and collect evaluation forms.") Revisiting the topic of procrastination: Why didn't they reforge the sword a lot earlier? Here they have the Heir to the Promise running around Middle-earth with a scabbard containing a blade that's about a foot long! (In the inn at Bree: He drew out his sword, and they saw that the blade was indeed broken a foot below the hilt. ‘Not much use is it, Sam?’ said Strider. ‘But the time is near when it shall be forged anew.’ Why wait?) Might Arathorn (and possibly other Chieftains) have lived longer if he'd had a full sword blade, I ask you? Aragorn might have had more than a 2yo's memories of his father! What??? Boromir had rope all the time, and he let Pippin jump over a giant fissure without it? That sounds more caddish than noble. He may be exaggerating his skills here, as well, for how did an "experienced traveller and warrior" happen to lose his horse??? Effectiveness of the presentations at the Council? Um. (See my "Council of Elrond" story for more details.) Maps. Yes. Maps would have been quite helpful, I should think. I'm a visual learner, myself. Though I have a preference for chocolate in my sweets, I must agree that the pink cakes with almonds on top are quite good. Author Reply: Lol, I'm glad that even just the chapter titles are amusing to you. :) Thanks as ever for your comments! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 6/15/2025 |
| The catering was very good, he wrote at long last into the box for general comments, especially the little pink cakes with the almonds on top. Two hours later, the company was finally ready to start their journey. They were supposed to leave Imladris secretly, so just to mark his disapproval of the general ineffectiveness, Boromir blew a mighty note on his horn. Wonderful, wonderful. I'm enjoying this tale so much. Author Reply: I'm glad you do. ;-) | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 6/14/2025 |
| Oh good grief. And this is why no survey is ever actually successful - because no one will put down what they actually want to say. At least Boromir got to write in answers instead of choosing from pre-arranged responses. The number of times I’ve wanted to choose ‘NA’ or write in question marks but haven’t had that option…. Author Reply: I hear you, I really do. | |