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| Straight From the Horses' Mouth by Chigger | 27 Review(s) |
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| mearasrider | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 11/23/2006 |
| good job!! Brego is actually in the books, but he is only mentioned once or twice.indeed, i was surprised that pj thought to put him in TT! | |
| Anonymous | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/30/2005 |
| Warning: plot bunny! You should try a story from the character's swords' POV, i.e. Anduril, etc. I don't know, that thought just popped into my head and I thought I'd through it out there, 'specially to you. | |
| Farawyn | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/29/2005 |
| Love these! I recommed you read "The Golden Bell of Greenleaf" that is (I think) still in progress on this site. The author is Iwarren. It's not from a horse's POV, but I think it might give you some pleasure. | |
| coonzalas | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/18/2005 |
| Excellent! I'm so glad you finally updated. I had forgotten that Eomer was actually at Helm's Deep. Too much movie influence, I suppose. One thing I noticed though: "Legolas also felt the intense heat and commented on it to Gandalf." Heat and cold don't normally affect elves. Unless that also is a fan creation. I'm not sure where it is in Tolkien's work, butI do remember reading it. Coon Author Reply: Movie influence is tough to overcome. What you see usually sticks better than what you read, I suppose. But it sure makes writing book-verse hard! :) Thanks for the review, and yes, I got the whole Legolas commenting on the heat incident from the Professor. | |
| esamen | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 2/18/2005 |
| Wow . . . you did some work on this one. Nice job of pulling together canon, a horse's distinctive voice, and a horsey perspective! All those details like warming the bit and the cramps after the long ride really make this a story unlike any that I have ever read. I liked seeing the story through the lens of Arod's eye, and I especially liked the relationships among the horses. They do remember each other, don't they? And how fun to imagine their conversations. And I absolutely loved the arrival at Isengard and the description of the hobbits. I hadn't thought about the fact that hobbits would be new to ALL the creatures there in Rohan. You have really run the range, from Bill to Arod! Any more horses up your talented sleeve? Congratulations, Esamen Author Reply: *giggles nervously* You may notice that it took me 11 months to pull THIS out of my talented sleeve! But I really needed the break from all this schoolwork, homework, housework and various other sorts of work that have been piling up lately. Feels good to finally have this posted, ya know? However, I WILL get your chapter back to you sometime. Hope you've been getting more writing done than I have. :) Thanks for the review! | |
| Pasha | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 1/30/2005 |
| wonderful... gives a bit of insight to why brego returned to save aragorn... bills was cute, I laughed about him kicking fenny, but I have known horses to hold grudges... all well written, and I hope for more... Hasufel for one? Author Reply: Sorry it's taken me so long to answer. I wish I could excuse my delay by saying that I've been working on this story, but unfortunately, that's not true. RL has been hammering down lately. But thanks for the review, the complements and the wish for more. Here's hoping I can wake up the plot bunny and finish at least the first installment of Arod. Hasufel *might* come in the far and distant future, but he features big in the Arod chapter. :) | |
| coonzalas | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 10/4/2004 |
| I suppose I should be ashamed using the review system to poke someone, but I don't know your email! A long time ago, I read a Silm story of yours that I really liked. It was set in the modern world, and I adored it. Now I come out of lurkdom after a long while and find that it has disappeared! Pray tell where is it? Could I please have a copy? Also, the Straight From the Horses' Mouth series is hilarious! Please continue. Coon Author Reply: I've been thinking about picking up this story again, but Arod had grown so big and out of proportion that I lost all energy. But I think I'll look into him just as soon as I can get schoolwork off my back. :) As for the other story, I *told* Coriel not to delete it!! That particular story was actually on her page, since she wrote it and I just beta-ed and sorta-kinna co-authored it; but she deleted it!! So I'll forward your review to her (she's off at college now) and tell her to e-mail it to you. And if you want to bug her yourself, you can click on her name on her story page and send her a note yourself. Thanks for the review! | |
| Lily Frost | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 5/2/2004 |
| I really like your horse's eye perspective - they probably realize things that their rider's don't. I couldn't find any errors, but perhaps you could liven it up with a few sarcastic remarks from the horses? I like Arod's complains of Gimli. The way you change mannerisms between Bill and Aslfoth is good too - they would speak differently considering their masters. I have a dying group dedicated to the furred, finned, feathered and scaled creatures of Middle Earth, and was wondering if you could help me wake it up by posting this or at least letting me post a link to it? It's here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rhosgobel/ Thanks. By the way... what about a Nazgul horse? That could be interesting... they don't necessarily have to be evil. Author Reply: I like to think that horses know more about certain things than their riders do. Things such as how tiring and hot being ridden is. :) In Arod (which has reduced my poor plot bunny to a wilted little creature off in the corner) I really explore that. So once the school year's over, maybe we can get back to him. :) Arod is also pretty sarcastic in certain places in his own chapter. :) Those two were easy, but Gondorian horses and Rohirric horses don't sound very different. :) So I'm relying more on cultural backgrounds for them. Arod and his companions speak of the old tales and ballads, since that's how the Rohirrim remember their history. Feel free! Knock yourself out! All the more power to you! I'll come check it out; but in the meantime, go ahead had post a link. Believe me or not, I've actually written one of the Black Horses; but my beta says that there might be a canon error. Yet like any big sister, she didn't feel like helping me, and frankly I can't get my energy up. :) I can e-mail it to you if you really want to see it. Just drop me a line through my page here at SOA, and I'll get it to you. :) Thanks so much for the wonderful review! | |
| Lily Frost | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 5/2/2004 |
| Very nice! Very cute, coming from Bill. Author Reply: Thank you very much. Since Bill is very nice and very cute, I'm happy his tale came off the same. :) | |
| Kitt of Lindon | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/4/2004 |
| It is interesting how Brego compared Theodred to Aragorn by the riverbank. And I really liked Arod and Brego's horse-talk. (Got to love horse-talk.) I can't wait for Arod for he's one of my favorites. Are you going to do Shadowfax? I always thought it would be fun to write Shadowfax for many a reason, yet his life is so full of deeds that you could expand that into its own series. I didn't see any mistakes as I read through it (but from me that probably doesn't mean anything.) Great chapter! Author Reply: AAA!! There it is!! >_< I was afraid someone was going to ask me to do Shadowfax. :) Actually, he's the one I had in mind when (in the prologue) I said that I was scared to death of certain horses. He seems the sort that is WAY too far above my limited knowledge. However, he is in the back of my mind and my muse is considering him. :) I was hoping people would like the comparison; and I'm glad you mentioned it. :) That makes me feel a whole lot better. As I told Esamen, I will try my best to use more horse-talk in future. I didn't know this would be so popular. :) Thanks for the wonderful review to lighten my evening before going back to work on Arod. I actually think he's going to need three chapters, he getting so long. But he is my favorite horse in Middle-earth, and I simply MUST do him as much justice as possible. :) Thanks again! | |