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Lesser Ring by Larner	4 Review(s)
Dreamflower	Reviewed Chapter: 34 on 9/20/2005
Oh, dear, why am I worrying about that fanatic now? And I love that you had Gimli win the wrestling match. Boy, I've missed this story so much!! Author Reply: You're worrying about him because he's a worrisome element, and glad you enjoyed Gimli wrestling. I rather enjoyed the squabble between him and Aragorn about Aragorn NOT wrestling, myself (even if I DID write it! Heh! We've missed your additions to the site. Glad you are back.

Kitty	Reviewed Chapter: 34 on 9/6/2005
Poor Pippin, I can understand him so well. For someone who has not lived for so long in a country controlled through Mordor, it is very hard to understand why some people want the time of Sauron back. I hope this young fanatic doesn't try to hurt someone or something like this! I'm a bit suspicious. So, the Farozi appreciates Éowyn :) And her try to get her son dressed was fun. In this heat it is no wonder little Elboron didn't want clothes. Another part I liked was the singing of the Lay. This exchange between the cultures is encouraging. And our friends were able to held their ground in wrestling, too. I love it how realistic Aragorn is about his own possibilities. But the end was a bit sad. Somehow I am thinking the same as Ankhrabi - I don't want the Farozi to die any time soon, I came to love him! (Well, that goes for all of them ...) And I am very glad Ankhrabi doesn't have to kill someone then, although it was a good idea to use at least a criminal for this purpose. But a ritual without bloodshed would be preferable. I am truly amazed about all the details you're weaving in this fic! Author Reply: Someone in Harad needs to appreciate Eowyn's form of femininity! Have been reading The Inklings, a description of the group to which Tolkien, Lewis, and Charles Williams all belonged at Oxford, and have come to the part where the author examines the strong feelings toward relationships that various members, but particularly Tolkien and Lewis, held. That men and women could have similar relationships to men and other men was something these two both didn't truly realize for much of their lives. I found myself wanting to counter that somewhat, for I truly feel that Faramir and Eowyn would have found themselves in a warmer, more equal relationship, both keen warriors who'd proven themselves, both drawn back from death by the same hand, both coming to realize their relationship to the other in response to the affections each held for the King Returned. And I can see a small toddler resisting being dressed in such heat. My own little brother was a nature's baby by his own choice till he was three, at which time he finally agreed to stay clad--until then in the summer the clothes would come off again as quickly as he could get free of Mommy and fussy older sisters, and often they would end up being flung into the lilac bushes off the porch, until he started to take them further afield and threw them into the large duckpond on the property. As for the rites insisted upon by Mordor--I would think Sauron would have wished to have gained some level of personal power from them, and that he would have those becoming rulers under him see themselves as corrupted by them, tying their own fate to his. That An'Ma'osiri and An'Sohrabi should have sought to distance themselves from such a rite by making it an act of justice instead of gratuitous violence alone, and should have invoked the Guide of the Dead and the great Judge of the Soul instead of Sauron I see as a part of their continued distancing of themselves and the post of the Farozi from Sauron's party and control. By encouraging the betrayal of An'Horubi's younger son, Sauron himself managed to lose any loyalty from the house of the Farozi and from his heirs. And again the Haradrim are learning how the Northerners express themselves and how they feel about those who assisted in the fall of Mordor and its dread lord. Thanks so much for responding.

Baggins Babe	Reviewed Chapter: 34 on 9/6/2005
What an interesting idea - that the accession of the Farozi was full of awful rites and tributes to Sauron and that new rituals must now be found. What a terrible thing, to have to sacrifice a life, and hos clever of the Farozi to choose someone who had deserved death. I don't suppose it mattered to Sauron. Do I sense that the fanatical young man may prove a problem in a future chapter? He seems to be having great difficulty absorbing all the information, and fancy thinking that Aragorn would have killed Frodo! No wonder Pippin is baffled. Author Reply: The full nature of this young man will be further revealed, and his muddy thinking uncovered. Sauron might not have cared who ended up on his altars; but I suspect that it made a great deal of difference to An'Sohrabi as he did his best not to allow himself to be corrupted by what he was forced to do. Sauron would have seen to it that those rising to such office as that of the Farozi would have felt drawn to him, would have felt themselves tainted and dirtied and thus tied to the one who claimed mastery over them and their land. That some would seek to privately distance themselves from him would probably have escaped him, as long as the physical forms were followed.

lindahoyland	Reviewed Chapter: 34 on 9/5/2005
I liked Pippin in this chapter,with his simple yet profound questions.Some of the Harad must find it hard to adjust to life afer Sauron, a bit like when the iron cuttain fell ! Author Reply: Yes, I can agree to those who found themselves floundering when the Iron Curtain fell. To go from such a controlled environment to having to be responsible for oneself must have been quite the shock. And I'm so glad you appreciate Pippin's questions. Someone needs to see them asked, and Pippin would be the logical one to see the lack of plain Hobbit sense, I think. So glad you responded. Love how your story is going, btw.

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