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| The Gardener by meckinock | 13 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/18/2015 |
| This was very nice. Sam's the best, and Elrond was the right person to talk with him about these fears. It's important for the guardians to have support too... Thanks for writing! | |
| H.G. | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 9/24/2015 |
| Cute friendship fic. ^.^ | |
| obsidianj | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/31/2015 |
| I love this. Sam is so...Sam. He could never let Frodo go alone. I love it that Elrond could reason out Sam's hiding place while everyone else was just running around. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/24/2015 |
| Lovely to find a new story from you. I love the way you portray Sam here and the way Elrond reassures him. Author Reply: Thanks, Linda. I had planned to feature Elrond, Glorfindel, and possibly Celebrian, if I could figure out how to write her, but dear Sam stood up and wanted to be heard. It was fun putting him together with Elrond. I'm glad you enjoyed it. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/24/2015 |
| Both Sam and Aragorn had training in gardening, of that I am certain. Realizing that, as with gardening, all you can do is all you can do and that may not prove enough but is, after all you can do has to have eased Sam's worries. Thank you so for this story! Author Reply: Thanks, Larner. It felt good to write in Tolkien's world again; I'm glad you enjoyed the story. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/22/2015 |
| One of my favorite things in a story is what I call "honest comfort", in which someone trusted assures someone who is troubled NOT that "everything will be OK" but that "oftentimes things are NOT OK, but that it matters: to love, to try, to keep on doing the right thing even though there are no guarantees". This is the comfort Tolkien offers us. Doing the right thing is right because it is right, not because it might alter an outcome. And yes, in the long run, things will be OK someday, even if it is only beyond the circles of the world, but we might not be around to see that. "Things were saved but not for me." This is the wisdom Elrond knows. It is a wisdom that Frodo also already knows. Now Sam (and the other hobbits) will learn to know it as well. Beautifully done! Author Reply: Thanks, Dreamflower. It must have been hard for Elrond to send the Fellowship off into peril. He knows how hard it is to heal some wounds. | |
| curiouswombat | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/22/2015 |
| How very right that Sam should have worries and doubts; Elrond's honesty, and his comparison of being such a guardian to being a gardener, are exactly right - thank you so much for adding this night to their story. Author Reply: Thanks, curiouswmbat. Sam was taking on a very heavy load; Elrond knew he could bear it, I think. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/22/2015 |
| Elrond is very wise - and Sam is very strong. He doesn't see it in himself at all, but it's good to see how Elrond appreciates it in him. And it was pretty much down to Sam in the end, in many ways. I loved the glimpses of Glorfindel - and Elladan and Aragorn in the background. Perhaps we all need to spend more time in Middle-earth. I've missed it. Author Reply: I didn't realize how much I've missed it until today. Thanks for the review and for your story. I've missed you, too. | |
| Levade | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/22/2015 |
| Beautiful. I can't think of which part to praise, but Elrond's words to Sam were just perfect. And he would know after Celebrian. How hard it would have been to know what those hobbits were walking into, knowing you most likely would never see them again. Such a powerful story and in such a short space. I am awed. And delighted to see a story by you! Thank you for sharing. Author Reply: Thanks, Levade, you're very kind. I knew I wanted to write Elrond for Nilmandra, but I couldn't channel Celebrian - she was busy in Bodkin's story. So Sam had to stand in. Cheeky hobbit. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 6/22/2015 |
| Sam is such a great character and I love the gardening analogies. It's interesting that you use them as last night I was reading an article on eugenics written around the turn of the last century and some of the very analogies that you're using were used then, obviously against them. I can't really explain them, they were complex but they were about the very simplicity and the fact that you do all of these common necessary things despite not knowing the outcome. Thank you for this wonderful story. Author Reply: That's fascinating, I will have to look that up. I hope you had a good birthday. I think in true Tolkien fashion it was you who gave us all a birthday gift by giving us a reason to come together again. Thank you for your friendship, and for this site, and all the wonderful memories we shared here. I don't know where the gardening analogies came from - maybe I was channeling you last night LOL. | |