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| Hollow Victory by Kara's Aunty | 55 Review(s) |
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| periannore | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 5/11/2022 |
| I planned to settle in and read a story I'd missed in my twenty year perusal and enjoyment of fanfiction. But wait! After the eagles came, (cavalry)the beleaguered troops were supposed to realize the ring was destroyed. So, what's all this about Sam? Thanks to your reviewers and your responses to them I realize I'll have to hunt down Cusp of Victory to put this chapter in context. Good job for writing so compellingly that I'm committed to avail myself of your complete tale. I give war stories a wide berth, but I recognize a well written description of combat's brutality, desperation and demoralizing elements. In your story I'm not even sure of the outcome. I call this being hooked. Thank you for an intriguing first chapter. | |
| mm | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 7/26/2019 |
| I still love this story. I guess you won't ever see this review after all that time, but I wanted to leave it. It shows a whole other perspective on how Frodo and Sam might have felt after the quest, seen all the more clearly because of the horrible things happening in the Cusp of Victory, though I think Canon events would have been enough to elicit this kind of reaction if not that strongly and swiftly as is displayed here. I'm fully captivated by the events in this fic and return from time to time to reread it and wonder how it would have continued. For I have no doubt that our dear hobbits would have been able to heal and reconcile over time with a lot of effort and help - hope is their virtue, and especially Sams, and neither of them gives up so easily. I also love how you included the others into the course of events, mainly Aragorn, Gandalf and Merry and Pippin, because they have scars of their own and especially Gandalf has a lot of responsibility for how things turned out (the good and the bad parts). (I also just love the Big Folk, especially Aragorn, take care of the hobbits and had looked forward to it...) So, I guess I'll just thank you for writing this far! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 1/7/2015 |
| My dear cousin, are you ever going to continue this? I see you have been active on Twitter, and I am most glad you have not left the world altogether but we need you here!!! Namarie, God bless, Your Tookish berry and bloom :) | |
| MM | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 12/11/2013 |
| Oh, please, please continue to write this! I love this story. I could never have thought of all the things Sam said, but he was right. And it fits for someone as badly traumatized as he is. Poor hobbit. I hope he does not get far. In his state he will not survive for long. Or maybe he will meet someone else who can help him. A former soldier of Gondor maybe or he is found and taken to the city. For sure Aragorn and Gandalf will need a very good idea of how to deal with him when he's found - and Frodo as well. I fear it will come to a head with Frodo soon, now he feels responsible for Sams disapperance (and probable death), too. | |
| eef | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 8/9/2013 |
| Please, I beg of you, on knees, with hands clasped in a prayer: PLEASE, FINISH THIS!!! | |
| MM | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 7/30/2013 |
| Wow. I just had to stop myself from running out and organizing a search party. I really hope they will find Sam before something happens to him. I am really impressed by your story. Such profound insights of trauma and what might have affected the hobbit and big folk in which way is intrigueing. So, I can't await the next chapter. | |
| whisperer | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/19/2013 |
| “But no. That Sam! He had the nerve to serve you faithfully and save your life, and here you are: wounded, broken, but alive." well, Merry has spoken for me.. Thanks to him. hoping to read the next chapter.. always visiting this site just to be sure the chapter has been posted. :( | |
| curiouswombat | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/10/2013 |
| Ah - well said Merry. He might not, necessarily, be exactly right - but he is surely not all that far wrong just at this minute... | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/10/2013 |
| Well, better a runaway than suicide, of course. And Merry said what Frodo needed to hear, after all. Now, perhaps he'll start letting go of the self-recrimination he's been taking out on poor Sam! Now--where is the dear gardener? And, as he's a Hobbit with a particular feel for the natural world he'll have a good deal to work with in keeping hidden, of course. The levity was needed, and I rejoice that Aragorn was able to use it to break his mood so that he could think clearly and foresee some such problem! Now, to find Sam! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 5/10/2013 |
| As he spoke, he absently waved around the hand which clutched his staff. Candlelight flickered dangerously. Those are the little details I love. Levity can be woven into even the most dire situations. *anxiously pacing until the next chapter* | |