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| Dreamflower's Mathoms II by Dreamflower | 12 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/22/2006 |
| Am still reeling from Hyacinth-being-eaten-by-a-troll. When I glanced at the chapter list just now, I thought this chapter was titled "Into Fangirl". Just thought you'd like to know. Author Reply: ROTFL!!! *snerk* Don't put anymore wicked ideas in my head, please! *giggle* | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/16/2006 |
| Merry discerned the situation very well. The orcs *were* sent to capture halflings, and if they hadn't found Merry and Pippin, they would've continued to look for halflings. So Merry and Pippin don't have failed Frodo, on the contrary, they helped him to escape, even if unknowingly. Otherwise the War could have ended very differently, I suppose. (In the movie this was hinted at very obviously, wasn't it, when the cousins distracted the orcs on purpose). Somehow I am glad the two realized this - it is a certain comfort for them in this situation, stranded in a foreign country and forced to rely on themselves instead of Aragorn, to know they at least did something important for their beloved older cousin. Author Reply: Yes, the movie was much less subtle about this than the book--but it served the same purpose. And it *was* a comfort. They'd come all that way to *be* with Frodo, and to be forced away from his side had to hurt a *lot*. Knowing that very thing could have been the saving of their cousin, I am sure was a help and comfort. | |
| AspenJules | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/16/2006 |
| That was really sweet. It touched me to read how they had spoken lightly of their escape, but couldn't bring themselves to talk of their capture and their last sight of Boromir. Aahhh... poor Boromir. *sigh* All in all, very nice little snapshot. Author Reply: No, it's one thing to make light of their own hurts and traumas, it's quite another to try and speak of one who made the ultimate sacrifice for them. I imagine it will be a while before they will feel able to do that. Thank you very much, dear! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/16/2006 |
| Merry is very bright - he can see more deeply into matters than most. He and Pippin are decoy hobbits, and they've been doing their job well. And those jobs aren't finished yet. Author Reply: He can. And a few minutes to think, when his head had cleared and they were no longer in the Orcs' possession, soon gave him the answer. No, they aren't--not by a long shot... | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/15/2006 |
| Oh, this is so sweet. I love these moments between the cousins. They didn't have to worry-Frodo was under two ever-watchful eyes and, when he needed it, in excellent care. But I wish I could reassure these two all the same. I've often wondered what would have happened if they had all gone with Frodo... God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Well, they were probably worried about Sam as well, truth be known. Of course they loved and trusted Sam also, but there is nothing like one's *own* two eyes--or four, in their case! I think it would make a marvelous AU--but there is so much else that would have to be accounted for--who would see to it that the Ents went to Isengard, or that the palantir distracted the Eye, or that the W-K got slain? who would have seen to the saving of Faramir and Beregond? I really would like to see such an AU that cleverly addressed these changes... But I don't think I'd care to write it myself! | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/14/2006 |
| This is so perfect!! I can so see them having this discussion. Wonderful, Dreamflower!!! Author Reply: Thank you! I could too. JRRT tells us they were *having* a conversation, but didn't tell us just what they were saying, and I think this particular subject would have been on their minds. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/14/2006 |
| ...but this was marvelous, and so very believable! Trust Merry to think it through. Wonderful! Author Reply: Thanks! It seemed a plausible bit of conversation. Frodo had to be very much on their minds at the time. He did need to take a few minutes. He'd been whacked on the head, and then had followed Pippin's pell-mell escape plan without much time to think. But he's very quick on the uptake, and I am sure that it occured to him at once that their capture had been advantageous for Frodo. Pippin, on the other hand, was beginning to wind down, and was probably more than ready to step back and put things back into Merry's hands, now that Merry was feeling up to it once more. So he was also ready to speak of his worry to Merry, who of course would make everything better! And he did. | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/14/2006 |
| Pippin nodded. “I think you are probably right.” “I usually am,” Merry said with a smile, and an attempt to lighten the mood once more. “I would think you’d know that by now.” “Insufferable Brandybuck!” Pippin chuckled. “Cheeky Took!” He flung his arm around Pippin’s shoulders, and on they wandered, into the Wood. LOL!!! "Conversing lightly in hobbit-fashion" - that's what they do, exactly! I just love your Merry and Pippin :) Author Reply: Yes, that is the hobbit way, and JRRT renders it so perfectly. I love Merry and Pippin, too! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/14/2006 |
| Wow this is a really logical conversation for a Brandybuck and a Took to have but I can just imagine it happening. It is one of this snippits that you feel SHOULD be in the book and, when you see someone write it you wonder why he didn't. Brilliant Dreamflower. Perhaps Pippin should tell Merry about the vision now. Author Reply: Well, you know, in that part of the chapter, he tells us they are "conversing lightly in hobbit-fashion", he just doesn't give us the exact details of most of the conversation--so we have to fill that in ourselves, LOL! I have a feeling Pip kept that to himself for a long time. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/14/2006 |
| Of course, they helped. Merry is absolutely right. they did lure the orcs away from Frodo. And, we know that in the end, Merry and Pippin ended up right where they were needed. What a Hobbitty tendency, to deal with heavy matters witha bit of jesting,ike a light in the dark. Author Reply: Yes, they did. Not on purpose in the books (unlike in the film) but nevertheless it *is* what they did. And there was no doubt, to paraphrase Gandalf, "that they were *meant* to be in Fangorn, and *not* by the Orcs", LOL! It very much is a hobbity tendency. When I was reading the chapter, I just loved the bit where it says "As they walked, they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered cruelly, and been in dire peril, going without hope towards torment and death; or that even now, as they knew well, they had little chance fo ever finding friend or safety again." | |