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| The Last Yule in Halabor by Soledad | 60 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/28/2005 |
| Herumor and Erendis would have dealt well with each other - it's a shame that they didn't manage to have a short while together. Herumor's reasons are very valid, too. Erendis would have made an excellent Lady of Halabor. Orchald seemed quite pleased to get things settled. I loved this series of tales about the inhabitants of Halabor - even if most of them had a really sad postscript! Sorry to be late reviewing the last ones - but Christmas got in the way! Author Reply: Thanks for staying with me all the way. :) There will be more Halabor stories, eventually. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 12/28/2005 |
| I approve of his choice! I wonder if she will approve, too - or whether she might resent being a substitute for his true desire. On the other hand, what other career choice is open to her? This sounds to be a very complicated social system - with severe limitations on those who subject themselves to it. Must go and read the conversation now! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 12/28/2005 |
| Excellent show, Oswin. And the feast sounds remarkably lavish - and, just after Christmas, it sounds just too much! Herumor seems to have made up his mind. I wonder who he has chosen. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/27/2005 |
| A lovely and practical proposal, and very sad that it came, as I suspected, to nothing. It has been very strange to read these little stories, so cunningly interwoven, and so beautifully and lovingly researched, yet each one chapter with its own sad little footnote. Very realistic and true to life--destruction, whether from war or natural disaster, falls randomly as it will, on the good, the bad, the rich, the poor, the sick and the healthy, and some are spared little more than personal inconvenience, and some lose all they have, while others lose their very lives, and whether the disaster is called the forces of Mordor or a hurricane called Katrina--it makes no difference in the end. Thank you for these stories. Author Reply: Thank you for reading the whole thing so faithfully, and thanks for the steady flow of feedback. That is our only payment, and you have made me very rich. :) | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 12/27/2005 |
| Oh, I do love the courtly dances! This particular one is not one I've done, but some of the elements of it remind me of a couple of other ones. Very well done! And I think that Erendis may be a wise choice, though it's possible that it all may be moot. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 12/27/2005 |
| Oh, "Goode Cookery" is a lovely site! I've used it more than once! I love your description of the food, and the song is very appropriate! I am looking forward to seeing young Herumor's choice. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 12/27/2005 |
| I really liked your little not about Sean Connery being "cast" as Lord Orchald. It made it very easy to picture him, and I could picture "young" Sean as his son! Lord Orchald seems not only a good ruler to his people, but a good person in his own right, ready and willing to do what is right, and when he *cannot* (as in allowing his son to wed the healer) he does all he can to make up for it. I am somewhat resistant to finding out his fate--I am much afraid he will not survive--and yet if anyone deserves to see the days of the King restored, it is he. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 12/27/2005 |
| Oh, I'm so glad these two escaped, though I am sad to hear of the rest of his family! I am unfamiliar with the term "scoop" (used in just this way)--I know the Saxons often called a bard a "skald", and that most Rohirric is based on Anglo-Saxon. What did you derive the term from? Author Reply: I took the word from the Regia Anglorum website. That was how they called the wandering minstrel - unless I spelled it wrong, of course. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 12/27/2005 |
| I am very fascinated still, by the honeymen. Is the recipe actually available anywhere? I enjoyed the gossip of the two women. It's a shame their speculation will come to naught. Author Reply: It's actually just a dough for honey cakes, cut in the shape of men. I think in English they are called gingerbread men. There are many recipes for the dough, I've tried several myself. I make "honeymen" to decorate the Christmas tree with them. :) | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 12/27/2005 |
| Interesting that you have an OC who apprenticed as a toymaker among the Dwarves in Erebor, and then moved to Gondor! Me too! Mine however was not a woodworker, and he settled in Minas Tirith. Author Reply: Now that I've finished this series, I hope to have some time for reading, too. Your stuff has been on my list for some time - looking forward to read it, soon. | |