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Going, Going, Gone  by Lindelea 4 Review(s)
LarnerReviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/20/2011
Yes, haircuts would become very problematical when you can't see the hair or the head! Heh! At least for Frodo himself he can feel where he is in space, so it wouldn't be that much different than being blind; but for everyone else they must use the bandages and clothing and gloves as reference!

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 8 on 8/8/2004
This has nothing to do with your story (sorry) and more to do with the - h'mmm, wastes. No, isn't it funny how books tend to avoid the topic! (Not). But one of the criticisms some strange people were making of Harry Potter is that it is never mentioned that HP has baths/showers or cleans his teeth - well, how surprising. Novels obviously require several chapters describing the bathing habits of the main characters. And how they deal with athlete's foot. And their visits to have their hair cut. Nobody in the movies ever locks their car doors either.

esamenReviewed Chapter: 8 on 8/7/2004
Well, I have to say, you have made a believer out of me. I admit to being skeptical during the first few chapters . . . but you've got me hook, line and sinker now. Marvelous, marvelous! A whole new vector in the Middle-earth tales. This is great! I can't wait for the next chapter now! And I can't believe how good this story is. Now, you had better tell us pretty soon what Celeborn wrote . . . and give Frodo's invisible hair a trim . . . or we'll all have to come over there and do something drastic to you.

Happy writing, esamen.



Author Reply: Well, thank you! You make me want to see just how far I can stretch your credulity... how about a tale where all the hobbits start slinging modern or semi-modern slang, and yet stay completely in character? Not sure? Well, it's next on the list for posting, after the last chapter of this one goes up. Let me know what you think. *g* (It was great fun to write, anyhow)

Yes, Celeborn's news, and Frodo's haircut are in upcoming chapters.

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 8 on 8/7/2004
Rosie is remarkably intelligent - Rosie for Thain! She understands Pippin much better than his father does. And she is right about how he puts Frodo at his ease. Merry is more serious and sensible, but he wants to make things work. Pippin is better at accepting them as they are and working round them.

I wonder if Frodo's hair becomes visible again when it is cut from his head? And what about his - h'mm - wastes?

What does Celeborn say?

Author Reply: Hmmm. Wastes. D'y'know, that sort of thing was never mentioned in the type of cultured writing I attempt to emulate. D'you suppose they didn't have any, in those days?

(No, they had chamber pots and buckets that they emptied out the windows into the streets of London... but that was Dickens' time, not Tolkien's... Still, JRRT does not treat the subject, that I've noticed.)

Anyhow, have not given much thought to wastes. Don't suppose they had comfort stops along the route on the Quest, either, do you? What happened when a hobbit needed, um... to visit Mrs. Murphy, or to see a man about a horse, and there they were in the middle of the Anduin River?

Of course, they were on short commons by then so perhaps it wasn't a problem. D'you suppose lembas is binding?

What if Merry needed to "see a man about a horse" on that long ride with Dernhelm. Would Dernhelm have said, "But we've already got a horse!"?

Perhaps I should post all this at Wonderland instead of in a review. It might spark a spirited discussion. Then again it might fall flat.

Hmmm, you have anticipated a plot point in your questions. So you'll see, soon. If not in the next chapter, then the one following, I'm pretty sure. Four chapters left, isn't it? Math is not my strong point, which is how I managed to make Estella and Diamond the same age though they were born ten years apart.

Anyhow, thanks for reviewing!

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