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| Clearing the Heir, Part 2 by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/21/2025 |
| Lindelea! Happy Belated Birthday! You have a wonderful talent for writing about Hobbits and their ways. I feel as if I am snuggling down in front of the fire in Bag End readying myself for a story with a mug of tea in my hand and a berry seedcake at the table nearest me. You paint lovely relationships, the caring between Eglantine and Paladin. Bilbo and the children. Wonderful! Stay well! ((hugs)) MM Author Reply: MM, so good to hear from you! Thank you for the birthday wishes. Also, I'm glad to see you reposting your stories, for they are high on my want-to-read list. I had planned to spend most if not all of my birthday reading fanfic, fortified with a series of cups of tea and a slice or three of teacake along the way. As it turned out, I had the tea and cake, as planned, but have had to postpone the reading. I appreciate hearing your impressions. For me, the writing process (and the thinking process that comes before) quite often feels like taking tea with hobbits, just like the word picture you drew here. The Shire has provided a wonderful refuge over the decades, and lately so many more stories and pictures have started bubbling to the surface... (I hope other authors are experiencing the same phenomenon, for I will probably never tire of reading tales set in Middle-earth...) (((hugs))) I hope this note finds you and yours well, and I look forward to getting through your shieldmaiden story all the way to meeting Faramir and getting past the fear and grief to the joy that follows. Will the story explore the development of Éowyn and Faramir's relationship? Did you portray their wedding in another story? I remember reading about their visit to the Shire, I think, but I need to go back and re-read that story. Have you imagined their life in Ithilien? Beg pardon if that's too many questions. I'm so eager to read more about JRRT's wonderful world and characters, I can be thoughtlessly pushy sometimes. And now I really am going to settle down to reading some fanfic, bolstered by a freshly brewed cup of tea. Peppermint, though, as I seem to have had too much caffeine today. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/19/2025 |
| Oh, and Happy Birthday! Author Reply: Thank you! Outside of the Breach of 2025 (were you the one who coined the term?), I had a lovely birthday. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/19/2025 |
| I’m really enjoying this tale! I’m interested to see your take on young Frodo, and how his and Bilbo’s relationship progresses. I’m so sorry your original and all the reviews have been lost - it’s heartbreaking for them to just disappear. But thx for reposting, and I look forward to Part the 3rd! Author Reply: I'm so glad you're enjoying the tale! The third part is coming along, and I hope to start posting chapters as soon as I have Bill the Pony's story finished. It's more complex than parts 1 and 2, so it will probably be a medium-length or longer story. I'm happy to see you're reposting your lost stories. While I may well have read and reviewed them in the past, I'll be glad to revisit them, or to make my first acquaintance with them if that's the case. (And some of the stories that I read years ago have faded from memory, making the reading fresh and new again. I guess there are some benefits to getting older.) You're welcome, and thanks for reading and stopping to share your thoughts. | |
| Leithian | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/19/2025 |
| Dear Lindelea, I wish you a very happy birthday. Thanks for giving us such a beautiful mathom, this is an absolute gem of a story. I'm glad you didn't give up on it, and I eagerly await the sequel. Have a nice day. Author Reply: Thank you for the birthday wishes! I'm so glad you enjoyed the story and its continuation! The sequel as outlined promises to be a bit more long and complex (sigh, no quick, easy 4-chapter resolution), but I'm plugging away at turning the outline into a draft and finding young Frodo quite an engaging character. Here's hoping... Think good thoughts, if you wouldn't mind. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 1/19/2025 |
| And all along the way, the old hobbit was thinking... coming to the realisation of the loneliness his life had become without his even noticing. This is a wonderful and very important realisation for Bilbo, and possibly for many of us as well. Frodo will be coming into a wonderful home with the most understanding relative possible. What a lovely story, my friend. It's my hope that your reviews (and all of our missing stories) can be recovered. Author Reply: It seemed a logical conclusion that occurred to me as I was perusing the family trees after re-reading that Bilbo didn't have close friends after returning from the Lonely Mountain until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. (Did that make sense? My brain is tired.) To look at his contemporaries, who kept aging even as he stayed unchanged, to see the gap between him and Frodo, knowing that Frodo was the oldest of the growing-up younger cousins JRRT mentioned; it all implies the old hobbit lived in a state of increasing isolation (except perhaps his interactions with elves, dwarves, and a certain wizard) until he adopted Frodo. And yet he was described as "fond of visitors"! Poor fellow. Thank you for the warm words and wishes. I too hope that all the lost stories and reviews might be, by some miracle perhaps, recovered. Please join me in thinking good thoughts. I am finding so much joy in fanfic now that I have time to read and write. | |