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| Jewels by Lindelea | 295 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 8/28/2025 |
| And which is it with eyes in her heart? I suspect it is Estella, when the truth is told. For she is for Buckland, and she knows it! ! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 31 on 8/28/2025 |
| A bad business indeed. At least the folks of Long Cleave know it's not Pippin's own doing. Now--to see Pip inspired to defy his father properly! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 30 on 8/28/2025 |
| Maybe a gift from Lord Irmo might be in order.... I rejoice that Jewel and Socks are doing well with Merry's attentions. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/28/2025 |
| Pippin and Estella Bolger? I think not! Silly old Thain! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 8/28/2025 |
| My grandmother could be like that. It brought her more misery in the end than it did to anyone else--save for my mother. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 8/27/2025 |
| Such humor may do more harm than good, but at least it was recognized in time. At least the poppy is helping--this time. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 8/27/2025 |
| Such illness is terrible to see. If only he can fight it--while those who love him sit in terrible anticipation while struggling to help him stay in this life. Now--the Thain! May he arrive to find his son rallying at last. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 8/23/2025 |
| The start of pneumonia? He's known enough distress for it to start. Now--if a memory of Frodo will hearten him so he can hearten Merry when that day comes. Bless him for his care for Socks. Author Reply: Yes, when I was writing Jewels and posting it at HASA all those years ago, there were some wonderfully supportive people at the archive. I connected there with a medical worker who advised me on symptoms as well as treatments that would have been available under the Shire's level of medical knowledge and application. In fact, Lyllyn warned me (after reading some draft chapters) that the symptoms I had described implied permanent lung damage and disability! Because of my fixation with plausibility, I was faced with rewriting those chapters. (Horrors!) I sat with that feedback for a few days, and then I came up with the timeline and character development arc, culminating in Sam consulting with Treebeard and returning with some specially-brewed Ent draught to address Pippin's problems. Thus, my habitual avoidance of rewriting resulted in a wider scope for the imagination! (Probably not the first time a vice or failing led to a positive result, but certainly the most memorable.) Thanks! (p.s. I hope this reply makes sense. I am very distracted. Squeak is repeatedly cruising by my legs and head-bumping me vigorously each time she passes. I must close the laptop now and top off the cat dishes, I think, before she gets hungry enough to take a bite out of me.) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 8/23/2025 |
| The anniversaries still happen, but as Pip noted, Merry is growing stronger as the memories become more bearable. I love the portrait so! Wish I had it here. Author Reply: I can clearly see the portrait in my mind's eye. Would that I could draw or paint what I can see! (But I have resigned myself to making pictures with words. Such is life.) I'd love to have all the pictures that I describe Estella sketching or painting scattered around my house. Merry is growing stronger; part of it is due to his exercising his "walk in the Light" muscles (in a manner of speaking). As long as he remains mindful of the need to walk in the Light and disciplines himself to practise that mindset consistently, he can keep up the good fight. (But they're making a mistake in these early years by keeping the observance private. It works better in later years when more loved ones are included.) Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 8/23/2025 |
| No, but he won't ever be but a tramp. A lovely ceremony of rememberence. Author Reply: I can't see Pippin wasting his life, not after what he went through on the Quest. This chapter may well be the origin of Remembering Day in my version of the Shire. Thanks for your encouraging words. | |