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| At the End of His Rope by Lindelea | 244 Review(s) |
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| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 4/16/2020 |
| Lindelea! So glad they found safety at last. There is a wonderful warm glow about this chapter. I see Diamond knows what she is about! Brandy is a fine thing! Warm milk, honey, a dash of nutmeg and some brandy! Sounds wonderful! Stay safe! Keep well. ((virutal hugs)) MM Author Reply: Mmm, I am tempted... warm milk, honey, a dash of nutmeg and some brandy. (I even have milk on hand at the moment that is safe for me to drink - "A2", they call it. I really hope it catches on (the store does not always have it in stock), and that they begin to make butter and cheese as well. (So far, I have found milk, cream, half and half, and – on rare occasions – yogurt.) Diamond takes very good care of her Pippin. :) Stay safe! ((hugs)) | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/4/2020 |
| Lindelea! Lovely interactions! And why do I get the impression that Farry is one of those children who are embarrassed by their parents when they "don't act like parents" i.e. Diamond and Pippin giggling in this chapter! Hope you and yours are well! MM Author Reply: It is certainly a mercy he didn’t take after them (at least in this instance) and take to drink! Thanks so much. I’m glad you’re enjoying the story. Stay well. (hug) | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/31/2020 |
| Lindelea! LOL!! Faramir is quite the storyteller apparently! Onto the next chapter! MM Author Reply: I do believe JRRT was descended from hobbits, and got some of his storytelling genius from them. Thanks for stopping to leave a good word! | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/28/2020 |
| Lindelea! This was absoultely lovely! The fond interaction between Diamond and Pippin is wonderful. OK now I'm going to have to read "Jewels" MM Author Reply: LOL, "Jewels" was a gateway drug of sorts. It drug me into writing more and more about 4th Age hobbits, anyhow. (Just a hint, Jewels is half complete here at SoA as I was trying to rewrite it to make Estella the right age and hit a brick wall around that time. I will have to add the rest of the chapters unedited, I guess. I will add that to my list.) Thanks so much! Diamond is certainly a match for Pippin. Hope this finds you well. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 75 on 3/28/2020 |
| Bergil had his own debt to Pippin. Pippin's actions at the Hallows, along with Bergil's father Beregond's, saved the life of Faramir. Then instead of being killed for shedding blood in the Hallows, Bereond was given a new life in service to Faramir. Bergil owes the way his own life became a good deal to Pippin's part in that whole thing. I am sure he considers that he will always be in Pippin's debt! Author Reply: You're right about that! I hadn't thought of it in quite that way, maybe because Pippin always had lingering doubt (if he hadn't stopped to talk to Beregond, then Beregond wouldn't have left his post... he has told someone at least once that maybe he could have found Gandalf and got back to the Houses of the Dead in time to save Faramir without endangering Beregond). I wonder if Bergil will someday be the one to convince Pippin that he is not guilty in Beregond's trial and "exile". For certainly Bergil looks up to Pippin. In a manner of speaking. Thanks. Hope this finds you well. (hug) | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/28/2020 |
| Lindelea! I do love your characterizations, even early on they do jump of the screen full of life! >'I am pushing,' Diamond shouted. 'If you think you can do better you're welcome >to try!' LOL. So true to life. >Her son smiled down at her and said, 'Don't worry, Mother, I'm just going to >pretend you're a pony for the time being.' Faramir is truly a grown-up lad. I shall settle in for the long haul on this story! Hope this review finds you well. Stay safe. MM Author Reply: I'm so glad the story has caught your imagination! It is probably similar to my going out of my comfort zone (hobbits) and reading about other folks in M-e... for example, you have helped me fall in love with Faramir and Eowyn and Eomer and want to see more of them, and I am finding myself intrigued with Imrahil, Thranduil and Legolas, and with the life of the Dunadain, and Beorn, from other authors, just for starters. Yes, stay safe seems a good greeting in these days. So, same back at you. | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/28/2020 |
| Lindelea! I love Diamond! She has got spirit! How does Pippin get into these scrapes? LOL! MM Author Reply: So glad you like her! It always seemed logical to me that the Travellers, being the extraordinary hobbits that they are, would marry wives with spirit and courage and common sense. Rosie Cotton certainly set the tone, even with the small glimpse that JRRT gave of her. (I have to admit that Pippin has got into a lot of scrapes in my stories because the Muse has a taste for angst and h/c. It got so bad that I had to lay off him and pick on Ferdi instead for a while, until one of my readers threatened to start a Ferdi Protection Society... LOL) Good to hear from you! Stay well. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 63 on 3/27/2020 |
| I am writing this review in the Year of Our Lord 2020, in the Seventh Age of MODERN EARTH.I came here to reread this tale after reading your reply to Mirkwood Maiden's review of recently posted Chapter 20 of your tale, "The Thrum of Tookish Bowstrings. You mentioned this, so I came hear to revisit. I do not think I reviewed any of this back when it was new. That was when I had first discovered this site, and was still trying not to spend all of my time in Middle Earth. A lost cause, I'm afraid! I just had to muse on life imitating art. Modern Earth is in the midst of a new pestilence called "coronavirus 19". My small city in the Rocky Mountains has not any cases - YET - but a smaller college town just an hour North of here has already two, I think! Right now Idaho has just been put in three week quarantine. I am sure that the embattled medical personnel in places like New York City, Seattle, and other nations around the world would welcome a visit from the King with the healing hands. Prayers to all of you reading this now. And I hope those reading this in years to come may be able to reflect that the plaque reached it's peak and subsided about this time. We can only pray that may be so! Author Reply: I am so glad to hear from you. Amazing how isolating isolation has been... or maybe not surprising. D'y'know, I was re-reading in this story as a part of preparation for writing new stuff (and making sure I don't put my foot in it where stories cross over), and was struck by the real life vs fiction thing. Ironically enough, I can still remember how, at the time I wrote this, I was saying to myself, "Nobody will ever believe that a fever can be so widespread, so debilitating, so deadly..." and hoping they could suspend their disbelief enough to enjoy the story. It is so heartening to hear your thoughts on this. I mean, I write the stories that I would like to be reading myself (and does it sound too egotistical to say that sometimes I go back and read my old stories simply for comfort's sake? Although, I am re-reading Runaway at present, for "research" purposes, and so I'm not exactly indulging in "smelling my own farts" as a family member would put it, for I recognize the passages that Jodancingtree wrote (and whole chapters, in parts), so I'm enjoying revisiting her efforts as well. And now I'm hoping she's well, for we haven't connected in such a long time...). Yet whenever I read a review, I feel a spark of energy and a smile and I don't feel so much like I'm just talking to myself. Silly me. We are sort of on the edge of the cauldron where we live, or maybe between a rock and a hard place, between one of the hard-hit cities and another city where cases doubled one day and then doubled again the next day despite the restrictions the governor announced (so double-double? Scary to think of that kind of progresion. And also a tinge of closing the stable door after the ponies have already run off), and more deaths begin reported. I'm praying for our medical personnel, and the people in government who are having to find the safest path through the quagmire, and the rest of us... Blessings to you, and hope this finds you well. | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 999999 on 11/13/2015 |
| Simply wonderful writing, though a bit overfilled with shadow. Author Reply: Belated thanks for stopping and taking time to leave your impressions! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 96 on 8/8/2008 |
| It holds up very well to a third re-reading as well. I started looking at it last night, when I wanted to rec it at lotr_fic_recs (they are doing Pippin fics for the next couple of weeks) and I just couldn't stop. I love Pippin in this--even though it's one of your earlier stories, his characterization is so sound and solid. And I love the way that the absent Frodo is so very *present* in it, as well. Just saying, you know. Author Reply: Aw, lovely! Thanks so much for the note of encouragement, and the rec! (Such an honour!) Somehow Pippin sprang forth, fully formed, and so did Ferdi, in this. I'm not sure just where they'd been (though there was a foundation for Pippin's character in the Young Steward tales, Jewels among them), but the two of them continued pretty much as they started here, and Regi too, if I remember right. Isn't it interesting how the subconscious works? Ah, yes, hard to leave Frodo out... I'm sure he "stayed" in the Shire in a sense, in the memories of those who loved him. It was fun, too, to wonder if Merry's dream was perhaps not just a dream, but two dreaming together and meeting in some otherness. Funny, that this story started as a one-chapter joke, and then expanded to no more than five chapters, and then kept growing and growing like a weed gone mad. I'm glad it found its way to a satisfying ending, even if it did take a long and sometimes meandering path to get there. Thanks again. | |