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| Cities and Wilderness by Larner | 3 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 9/29/2025 |
| LOL! Reading this little gem made me laugh. Good for Pippin! (And Frodo, who "didn’t even allow me to order Sam about before we left the Shire, you know.") Some attitude adjustment is in progress, I think. Author Reply: I think that the attitude adjustment is beginning to take place more amongst the citizens of the Shire than in Pippin. I hope it is beginning to take place in Eglantine. Heh! Have been laid low by a nasty virus, and am only now beginning to recover. I've not been so sick since the sepsis that accompanied my last kidney stone some four or five years ago. Today I've been out for the first time in a week. Wish me well! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 9/26/2025 |
| This is marvelous. I can imagine Pippin's words being quietly shared and circulated amongs the hobbits (perhaps with a bit of puzzlement), and his real respect beginning to grow. Author Reply: And what a stir they will cause--if they aren't dismissed by the hearers as simply more of his usual (from before-quest) Pippin nonsense. Thanks so! | |
| Fimbrethil | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 9/25/2025 |
| Larner! This is actually rather more amusing than I thought it would be. But I have some questions: why isn’t Pippin talking with his father and the others in the first place? Secondly, where is Merry? In Buckland or with Frodo? Thirdly, who named Sam that? Gwaihir or Gandalf? A nice bit of humor after a busy day. Author Reply: Sorry to be so belated in responding. First, I was having to borrow time on a friend's modem, as mine was no longer serving. My attempt to acquire a hotspot failed to meet my needs, and it took me time to find a new modem that works--much less get the money to buy it. Frodo and Sam were both enobled for their service to all of Middle Earth as indicated by the acclamations given them on the Field of Cormallen (book-verse). They were both acclaimed and crowned with silver circlets of honor. We are not told who gave this order, but in my-verse I see it as having been given out by the Great Eagles, probably through Gwaihir as you've suggested. Since his return to the Shire Sam has been apparently subconsciously demonstrating a good deal of responsibility in seeing to the renewal of the Shire, planting new trees, offering aid in renewing farms and gardens, helping organize the rebuilding of homes and businesses as well as overseeing the renewal of the Quick-post and the like. I see the three proper leaders from within the Shire simply drawn to his new natural authority as if he'd always been more than just Bag End's gardener, discussing with him what had been seen as needs all of them now need to see to. In my-verse, Paladin hasn't yet accepted that Pippin is now an adult in all but age, so Pippin is listening and learning, waiting for the day when all will recognize him as the capable individual he has become. Frodo withdrew after refusing to be candidate for the Mayor's seat, nursing an anxiety-fed migraine and stomach upset. Don't know where Merry is, but he may be seeing to Hall business while his father is consulting with his fellows and Sam, who will be Mayor in seven years and has been raised by Frodo himself to equivalency to the Master of Bag End and the Hill. Hope this answers your questions. And may this virus I'm entertaining go away and leave me alone! | |