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| Jewels by Lindelea | 295 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/5/2006 |
| Yes, they ought to have told Merry's parents. Author Reply: Yes, they ought. Poor lads. Glad it came out well. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/5/2006 |
| I am glad that Merry knows how to fight for to give him to Gondor so soon after losing Frodo to keep him from death would be too much for us all. Author Reply: It really would! Especially when I stop to consider that Merry has always been my favourite hobbit. (Don't know why I find it so hard to write about him!) | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 11/29/2006 |
| Aw.... *sniff* Where was the hankie warning? I loved it all. I missed my share of the blackberries too this year. My favourite fruit. Author Reply: My favourites are probably tree-ripened peaches or nectarines, although fresh-picked strawberries come close. Sorry about the hankie warning. There's a lot of that in this story. Just keep a spare lying by the computer, will you? Of course there are plenty of bright bits too, lest you lose hope. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 11/28/2006 |
| Yes, to learn to live properly is a great adventure, allowing one to more properly appreciate the greatest adventure of all--finding what comes next! We love our four, and are mostly glad that Frodo chose life in the end. Author Reply: You certainly have a way of summing up the most important part. Thanks! Author Reply: p.s. that new story is still residing on paper. Haven't had time to type it in, yet, but will send chapters off to you as I get each one typed in, if you don't mind piecemeal. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 11/28/2006 |
| *sigh* Well told, Lin! *sigh* Author Reply: *sigh* right with you, Pearl. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 11/20/2006 |
| The darkness creeps in, but still, this is more the feel of things that I have always had. Frodo is fading, but still not overcome. Well done, Lin! Author Reply: Thank you! Yes, Frodo didn't strike me as so very miserable and depressed that he had to leave, although I wrote this before reading JRRT's letters and gaining additional insight. I think that his gallant spirit would have fought on to the last gasp, if he had not had the avenue of escape that the Elves offered. And I think he took that offer reluctantly, and perhaps more for Bilbo's sake (that the old hobbit not be all alone, without any other hobbits, in that fair land) than his own. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 11/19/2006 |
| So--Saradoc and Esmeralda are recognizing the signs, while the other Travellers are in denial. Although I suspect Pippin is merely keeping his own counsel. But in the depths of his heart Merry is recognizing what will come.... Author Reply: No, actually, I have Pippin and Sam in denial and Merry keeping his own counsel. But it might easily have gone the other way, with Merry being so close to Frodo from his early years. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 11/19/2006 |
| 'I could give you the same answer. It goes.' He took a deep breath of the sweet summer air. 'Life is good, Merry. I might not have chosen the path that was set before me, but I cannot complain of the outcome.' He gestured vaguely to the laughing children, sunshine sparkling on the water, the bright sky, the myriad greens of grass and tree. 'Just look around, Merry. There is no Shadow here. And we helped to make the difference.' Oh Frodo. Seeing with his head and so totally committed to seeing his friends and the Shire heal but he can't share it. And Merry coping and turning his experiences to the good of the Shire with an able assistant in Pippin. Great to see this Lindelea. Author Reply: Thank you! Tuesdays are a busy day for us, so it makes Tuesday a good day to give an already-written chapter a buff and a rub and post it. Therefore, unless the bronchitis attacks again, this ought to be updated on Tuesday! It's a plan, anyhow. This part always grabs me in the throat. These chapters were a result of my trying to work out just why Frodo had to leave the Shire, for I simply could not see him leaving all those he loved unless it was a matter of life and death. But no time for a long drawn-out discourse on the matter--aren't you relieved? *g* | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 10/19/2006 |
| Oh, Lin, I loved this!!! I put it off a bit as I didn't want to face the usual "gloomy gus" Frodo. What a wonderful surprise!!! You have a happy, sly, loving Frodo - much more the way I always pictured him being for most of his first year home. MEWD!!! Author Reply: O good, we're still thinking along the same lines. I liked giving him a peaceful year in the Shire, marred only by anniversaries. I'm sure he savoured peace, and watching the Shire grow green again, and life resume its pattern. That's the way I wrote him in "A Short and Passing Thing", anyhow, which sort of spun off this chapter and the next two. Author Reply: oops, meant "Small and Passing Thing" but I was trying not to type "Long and Passing Thing" which is something of a joke between EF and myself. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 10/19/2006 |
| a Favourite Nephew who works hard to reassure his favourite Aunt and Uncle! Lovely Picture with the flowers. Author Reply: Thank you! I love that picture--I can see it in my mind's eye, an echo of when Frodo was a little lad and brought his auntie fistfuls of half-wilted wildflowers. | |