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| Riches to Rags by PIppinfan1988 | 8 Review(s) |
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| estelnalissi | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 11/15/2005 |
| What a charming family scenario to start a story! These Tooks are wonderful Hobbit prototypes each having distinct, appealing characters. In Paladin's leavetaking of Pervinka you reveal so much about her. She's fretful, she freely and trustingly shows her emotions, is obviously game for adventure when she's out to play, she shows a bit of sibling rivalry in hoping to make Pippin jealous, aand, when the chips are down, has a Hobbit's loving, generous, nature. My favorite line is Paladin's, "I never daudle when my heart is here in Whitwell." You show you know children well. Isn't it always the way when you are getting little ones ready to go out that there's got to be that last minute complication? It's also just like children to be stubbornly attached to a garment one day and despise it the next. I love picturing Pippin in a hat with the strings tied under his little chin! You also establish the relationship between Merry and Pippin within a scant few minutes and lines of dialogue. There was Merry, helping Pip in one moment and teasing him in the next. This is a sweet, bustling, first chapter. Whatever took me so long to find your stories? | |
| mpfan | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 1/15/2004 |
| This was sweet. I'm afraid I've been horribly neglectful of your stories--I'm very sorry. I will try and read more later this week! Thanks for your review of my story! I do appreciate it. :-) I'm not sure if I will expand on that yet or not. As of now, it's complete, but you never know... Author Reply: Gosh, I like this ability to reply directly to folks who take the time to read and review! This is cool! Thanks, mpfan, for your review, and I *do* hope you decide to continue your story! I liked it, but of course, it depends on what kind of time you have on your hands to continue it. You know me--I love my Pippin and Merry! God Bless. Pippinfan & Co. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 1/15/2004 |
| Enjoyed this to the very end. It's a terrific story. Hope you plan to post more of your work here. I love finding things that I haven't read before. Especially fond of hobbit stories, hint, hint. LOL Author Reply: I had already replied to your earlier review when I learned about this reply button! Now I'm really embarrassed! Thanks for both of your reviews! Pearl Took (a terrific writer with fantastic stories of her own!) has told me about your stories and I plan to make my rounds there in the near future. I do have more stories on ff.net, but as they were written when I first started writing on a regular basis, they are sorely in need of a grammar re-check and one story I'm almost finished with re-editing needs a little reality check as well. But I have to remember this is fan fiction--only stories. Thank you again! Pippinfan | |
| Arwen Baggins | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 1/15/2004 |
| Looks good for now, I'll be back to finish this weekend. Oh, and if you want a suggestion, maybe you could do a story where one of Merry, Pippin or Sam has a surreal experience, as you call it, about Frodo before his parents died. Or maybe an AU that they didn't die. You catch the drift...just tell me what you think of the idea. Ttyl! Author Reply: Thank you, Arwen, and I hope you do get the chance to come back and read it to the end. I'll keep your suggestion in mind, but I'm already working on another story--and I'm not the talented type who can work on multiple stories all at once! Thanks. Pippinfan | |
| Connie | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 1/15/2004 |
| Wow! I couldn't stop reading. Every time I saw a new chapter posted, I had to go right to it. And yes, I got misty-eyed at more than one point. I'm impressed by the ammount of research went into this. Thanks for explaining quartering, that was the one thing I couldn't figure out. I also found it interesting that you portray Pippin's parents as such loving people. In most fan fiction I've read, they are not painted in such a favorable light. Nice to see a different view. Wonderful stuff. Thanks. Connie. Author Reply: Thank you, Connie, for taking the time to read and respond to the story. I can't explain it, but I only went to a couple websites and found I couldn't get the chilling journal entries out of my head. In a matter of hours the story was laid out, and completed in just a couple days. (I don't normally write a story that fast) Thanks again. Pippinfan | |
| Miriel | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 1/15/2004 |
| I just wanted to say how much I thourghly enjoyed this story. You delved into the heart of things, making the experience with MErry strange yet believable. How sad that children actually did live like that! My grandmother was recently telling me of all the chimney sweeps...most of them never lived to adulthood. It's so sad, and I wonder--now what? I wish I could go back and help them, somehow...but I suppose since that isn't possible, we should fight for the things that are wrong today. Anyway, I loved your thought-provoking story. Cheers! Author Reply: Thank you, Miriel, for taking the time to read the story! I'm glad you saw through to the cruxt of the message; child labor. It makes the writing all the more worthwhile if just one person sees the it. Take care, Pippinfan | |
| Pervinca | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 1/15/2004 |
| Well, hello Pippinfan! It's B90 (or Kate) from ff.net! Gald to see you joined up here too (it's much better than ff.net...much, much better). This really is a fantastic story - better get the rest of the chapters up soon! And update "Simple Life" too! Oh, by the way, I think I was the reviewer Grey Wonderer suggested to read this story to! And I enjoyed reading it again :) Author Reply: Oh this is too cool--I can reply directly to a reviewer??? Wow! Glad to be among friends here... I just noticed you're Pervinca here at SOA...I would like you to know that out of all of Pippin's sisters, Pervinca is the one I identify with the most...mostly because I have a younger brother, and I tortured him when we were little. Did I tell you all this before? I'm getting old! Take care, Pippinfan | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 1/15/2004 |
| This is a very inventive story and I enjoyed it very much. Hope you don't mind, but someone wrtoe a review of one of my stories and in my reply, I suggested that the reviewer read this one of yours. The reviewer was commenting on my version of Paladin Took. My Paladin is not a very nice hobbit father. I said that I had read a fiction that was quite good in which it was Merry's father that wasn't all that nice. I then refered the reviewer to your story. Hope that was ok. I really did enjoy this one. Hope you have more. | |