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| Pearl of Great Price by Lindelea | 3 Review(s) |
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| Lady Forlong | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 5/21/2025 |
| So that's why Lalia was being so nice. I knew she was up to something... Author Reply: Mistress Lalia is a piece of work. JRRT's description of her did not strike me as complimentary... Thanks for reading and pausing to share your thoughts! You've made my day. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/27/2003 |
| I'm so happy for Pearl but poor Rosemary! Some of these Tooks are making life difficult! I still hold out hope for a happy ending. Author Reply: I always aim at a happy ending, for sure! Sometimes it shades into bittersweet, but I do my best. Thanks! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/26/2003 |
| Now we see the source of Rosemary's estrangement from her father. Old Ferdinand feels keenly the bite of having to take the Thain's charity, and in some way this is paying him back by giving him the only thing Ferdinand still has that Ferumbras could want - Rosemary. So Ferumbras is eager to get a heir? It is implied that his mother thinks better of him, for the plans that are being made. Perhaps Lalia wishes to mold the future Mistress to her satisfaction while she still can. I find it a bit curious that Ferumbras is so willing to oblige her. That relationship is rather strange - he either has no ambition at all for himself, and is content to remain under her thumb as a spoiled dandy, or he has to have a lot of really repressed anger to deal with at some time in the future. Marrying or not marrying seems like the last bit of control he has, the last card he could play against his mother. I wonder why he's so eager to spend it? Author Reply: Ferdinand is also under coercion, which I think becomes clearer later in the story. He's not thrilled about the situation, but he feels he has no choice in the matter. At this point, Lalia recognizes the lack of potential marriage partners amongst the gentry (Rosemary is descended from the Old Took, after all); daughters in the Great Families who are of child-bearing age are not likely to favor Ferumbras, and unmarried females of a similar age to the Thain are too old to bear children! I should also imagine none of them being willing to live under Lalia's thumb if they have any brains at all. So it may not be so much a choice to rob the cradle in order to get someone she can control but rather the lack of other candidates is driving her to take desperate measures. Ferumbras's reasons for what he does will become clearer as the story continues. Thanks! | |