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| Shire: Beginnings by Lindelea | 2 Review(s) |
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| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 12/10/2003 |
| 'I only need one,' Pick said reasonably. 'Or do you prefer to be called "Hoi, you there"?' A wonderful Lindelea story that runs me no troubles with my own meanderings!!!! This is a joy to read! Something tells me Peregrin Took is a direct desendant of Pickthorn!! And I love that you have told us how Mithrandir came by the name Gand-alf!! Pearl Took Author Reply: Thank you, Pearl, how nice to see you here! I suspect you are right about Peregrin Took... though I had someone else in mind (this will be made clear at the very end, I think). It was lots of fun coming up with origins for "goblins" and "Gandalf" and a few other things. Hope no one gets huffy over my version! Glad you stopped by. | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 12/9/2003 |
| Just to say that I am very much enjoying this story (don't I always?). I hadn't imagined hobbits starting out in a thick forest, but it works. After all these 37-years-almost-to-the-day of reading Tolkien, I had somehow managed to miss the existence of the Mountains of Mirkwood! (Maybe that just proves I'm not obsessed with Legolas.) I have only ever read one other pre-Shire hobbit story, not at all like this one. It used to be on the Barrow-Downs site but seems to have been weeded. Author Reply: I certainly hope you always do! They didn't actually start out in the thick forest, though that is where their "wandering days" started. I imagined them as farming folk before they became forest folk. Very versatile, these hobbits. I haven't read any pre-Shire hobbit stories! Didn't know any existed. I'm glad to know that there are readers out there who are willing to chance a story with no familiar characters to anchor the tale. Thanks for the review! | |