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The Rescue  by Lindelea 2 Review(s)
LarnerReviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/18/2010
It must have been particularly galling to realize they were benefitting from the misery of their neighbors! At least they do have food and a level of good will at the moment!

Author Reply: Yes, they do have good will from the ruffians, at least. The neighbours are another matter. (Can we say, "collaborators," precious? Or at least the appearance of collaboration, all in the name of gathering information for the free hobbits of the Tookland?)

Thanks!

DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/15/2010
A lesson for Estella: that sometimes good things happen for bad reasons. That's a harder one, perhaps, to learn than the more usual one of the other way round-- yet something everyone needs to learn sooner or later.

I loved some of the sly little things you slipped in, like "herbs and stewed rabbit" and the bit about the deer all being Lotho's (shades of Robin Hood!)

I love how Estella is toughening up and managing to keep her head. She's also really getting into her role as Twig-- and *that* might be a lesson hard to *unlearn* when the crisis is over...

Author Reply: Ah, yes, Robin Hood! Funny how he sneaks in here and there, especially when oppression is in the air.

Poor Estella. It's just as well she had a gradual reintroduction to girliness, during Freddy's recovery. I think it would have been an awful shock for her to go right from "Twig" to "Estella" (the gently born young lady), especially under her grandmother's critical eye.

It's fun to contemplate that Hally's family might have been enjoying herbs and stewed rabbit right about the same time as Sam and Frodo...

Poor Rosemary, she could appear to be crying because she was touched by the ruffians' gesture (and wisely blame it on a tearfully grateful reaction to their "generosity") while weeping for the poor hobbits who'd been robbed. *sigh*

Thanks!

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