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| Striking Sparks by Lindelea | 29 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/28/2005 |
| The characterizations are wonderful, and find I enjoy Mardibold as much as young Hilly. Author Reply: Ah, yes, the -bold family! Salt of the earth. (Always wondered what that meant. Doesn't salt make earth sterile?) I hope it is clear that young Hilly is nephew to Hilly-the-escort. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/28/2005 |
| Well, I find I'm enjoying this story, although I am woefully behind in all your ongoing works. Have been fighting crud and more computer blitzes. I do like young Hilly. Author Reply: I'm glad you are enjoying it. It's hard to write Fourth Age stuff; so much of it is un-Frodo'd, by canon constraints. I do what I can with dreams and such, and his cousins' fond memories of him. You've been fighting crud too? There's a lot of that going around. (Including here. Barely have the energy to get out of bed these days, and am taking naps when the little ones do, something that I haven't done much in years.) Thanks! (And get-well-soon, both you and your computer!) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 3/28/2005 |
| Enjoyed the chapter - and also agree with the comment at the end. This is a pre-20th-century fairly rural and conventional society - and it will have had relatively high infant mortality. Accepting that Rosamunda should use her healer skills is quite advanced of Regi. And Regi even speaks to Mardi before he tests the water with Rosamunda. I suspect she will accept him, though. Just a feeling. Author Reply: LOL - just a feeling! Perhaps you have a crystal ball tucked into your sleeve... Glad to find you equable on Regi's behalf. He is awfully old-fashioned, but quite forward-looking with regard to his wife... Thanks! | |
| Mysterious Jedi | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/23/2005 |
| Looking forward to more. Interesting to see a different POV. Kind of surprised me that Mardi would speak of Pip's---excuse me, Thain Peregrin's unwellness, but I suppose it was healer to healer, and I imagine she's sensible enough to not spread the notorious Talk, or to think Thain Pregrin unfit for the thainship. Author Reply: You're right, it was healer-to-healer, and healers have a sort of code of conduct--they don't gossip. (Not even if they're Tooks!) Thanks. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/23/2005 |
| éminence grise /%EmIn2Qs "gri;z/ · n. (pl. éminences grises pronunc. same) a person who exercises power or influence without holding an official position. – ORIGIN 1930s: Fr., lit ‘grey eminence’; the term was orig. applied to Cardinal Richelieu’s grey-cloaked private secretary, Père Joseph (1577–1638). Author Reply: Aha, interesting! Thanks for scratching that itch. Yup, between them Regi and Ferdi pretty well run the Tooks when Pippin is indisposed, or even when he's not, for they handle all the minute details that would otherwise annoy him and waste his time. I remember Richelieu from "The Three Musketeers", is that right? | |
| Beruthiel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2005 |
| Heehee. Aunt Reginard. Pippin could indeed use some quashing. Though I can see why he wouldn't want to be stuck in a room underground all week. Author Reply: I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in a room underground all week, either. It has always interested me that hobbits live *in* the earth but don't *stay* there (except maybe to sleep?). And yet I just read a very interesting news story about a man who designed an underground house, lit in daytime by skylights. The rooms are all round! Evidently that's a very strong shape, in engineering terms. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/18/2005 |
| 'That's Aunt Reginard, to you,' the Steward said, and left the room, allowing himself to chuckle only after he'd closed the door behind him. Love that! Reginard is such a superb eminence grise - he can do it all, with one hand tied behind his back, but he doesn't want to be the figurehead. Pippin is VERY lucky to have him. And, of course, Ferdi (MFH). Author Reply: That is one of my favourite "Regi" lines. Regi is the perfect "Man Friday" but I don't think he has any aspirations to anything greater. (And one of these days I'm really going to have to read "Robinson Crusoe" and stop relying on second-hand information.) eminence grise? eminence = high? | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/17/2005 |
| Go, Mardi! You and Woodruff. Long-suffering healers the pair of you. Though I don't quite go with the general obsession for seedcake. Although, it could be a way of sneaking necessary drugs into the Thain, perhaps. Poppy-seed cake for one. Author Reply: KWYM. I don't know where Pippin got his liking for seedcake. Maybe from Bilbo. I certainly cannot stand the stuff. Thanks! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/15/2005 |
| Have we identified the very first review I sent you? How fun! This series of interconnected stories are among my favorites. I do admire the way your looking at the same events from multiple points of view creates a rich tapestry of characterization and emotion. It's good to read them again. Author Reply: I think it might be the very first, yes! It's fun to look at events from several perspectives. Guess I keep revisiting favourite parts of a story the same way I keep re-reading the books I like best. Thanks! | |