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| And Where Are the Children? by Larner | 1 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 5/12/2025 |
| Oh! I'm so glad I already finished my current "Tolly" story featuring Bindbole Wood, which I suspect might be the same place as your Binbale Woods, though I might be wrong... Reading on... (p.s. I have no memory of this story of yours; even if I might have read it at some past time, it's all new to me. Thank you for bearing with me when I called with a question about the story just now...) A-a-a-nd the mention of Foreyule makes me doubly glad! (Because the last part of the new "Tolly" story happens during Foreyule, though later, after Pippin becomes Thain.) It's lovely to see Bill and Strider and a glimpse of Freddy Bolger at the Cottonses' farm. Oh! Billy goats can be nasty, indeed! Sometimes our former community would have a potluck picnic on a farm, and the teens would play volleyball. If the ball got hit out of bounds into the goats' pen, it took a brave youth to fetch the ball back again! The devastation and losses described are heart-breaking. Also, how grievous that the work of Frodo's father has gone missing. I'm glad, though, that Folco has survived the Troubles in your story. Interesting about the Boffins. I just read recently (like in the past month) about how they weren't located anywhere specific, and then they were called "the Boffins of the Yale", but somehow they ended up living in Overhill. At the time I was writing my early stories, I couldn't find any information about them. Though Peoples of Middle-earth had been published, I didn't have access to it at the time. So I arbitrarily plonked Folco's branch of the family in Waymeet. Overhill sounds more faithful to the original author's intent, from what I seem to remember from my recent reading in History of Middle-earth. Looking forward to more! | |