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| A Conspiracy of Hobbits by Dreamflower | 3 Review(s) |
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| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 1/28/2006 |
| I loved the Rosie introspection at the end. And quite a perspective lass Rosie is to pick up on Frodo's oddity in selling Bag End. Also i like that part about Sam stopping at confiding to Rosie...it seems quite likely indeed. Author Reply: I think most of the hobbits would have found Frodo's selling Bag End an oddity, especially with the excuse he tried to give--I think it would have been difficult for most of the Shire to believe a Baggins was broke! LOL! And Sam, I think, would have gladly confided any secret that was his own to her, but he couldn't do so when it involved someone else, especially his beloved Master. | |
| Gryffinjack | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 11/7/2005 |
| Poor Frodo - it's got to be so humiliating telling everyone that he has run out of money and watching everyone come up with their own ideas as to what's really going on. "He jerked his hand away as if from hot coals, and fled out the back door, mouthing to Sam in the back garden “S-B’s”. He went for a long walk, leaving poor Sam to deal with them on his own, and did not return until the stars came out." This is something we don't see much of - Frodo actually getting upset. It's good to see him acting like a normal human being, er ... hobbit, would in a situation like this. It's only natural that he would get upset about the hateful S.B.'s and have some sort of display of anger, as you have demonstrated in this line. He certainly did not flee from them in terror, but because he was frustrated and tired of dealing with them. And I love the way he just mouths "S-B's" to Sam and he stomps off. You've brought up something not often considered here. If Sam did have a relationship with Rosie already, it must have been extremely difficult for him to go off with Mr. Frodo and leave her without a word for what might have been forever. He must have worried that she would find someone else and that it would serve him right if she did. Poor Sam would have been really hard on himself for causing her so much unhappiness when she found out he was gone without so much as a word. I really like your Rosie's confidence and understanding in Sam. She's just what he needs. Author Reply: Yes, I thought it would be a bit funny if he realized that no one really believed him--remember the gossip at the Green Dragon? The legend of Bilbo's wealth was not so easily done away with. And Frodo was a terrible liar, LOL! The S.-B.s *are* driving him to distraction, and he does not like being angry. But what really *did* frighten him was *not* them, but the realization that he was ready to put on the Ring, after all of Gandalf's dire warnings. He had to stomp off to collect himself. In, I think, Unfinished Tales there is a scene with Rosie, where she says she never believed Sam was dead, that she always knew he would come back, and that she could feel it in the Spring that it was time for his return. If you've never read it, it's a very moving passage. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 3/29/2004 |
| I know that Pippin does go on the quest, but when I read this story I find myself worried that he might be left behind! LOL You are capturing his feelings so well that I am forgetting how it all comes out in the end. A great story. Also feel Frodo's loss in this last one as he thinks about leaving his Bag End. Author Reply: Oh that's such a great compliment! Thank you! | |