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| When Winter Fell by Lindelea | 158 Review(s) |
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| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 2/22/2014 |
| Such wonderful gifts! Bilbo's loving, teasing relationship with his parents and uncle are a joy to experience. Author Reply: A little love goes a long way. It is a joy to write Isen's healing... Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 2/22/2014 |
| Bilbo's so thoughtful, and so is his father! Author Reply: Gotta love those Bagginses... at least, that particular branch of the family. I left off a note of thanks in the chapter, that I meant to include. It's there now, and reads: Thank you to Dreamflower for supplying the quote, when I could not find a single copy of the three sets of LOTR we own... Just wanted to let you know, since you'd already read the chapter and therefore might not see the note. Have to give credit where it's due! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 2/12/2014 |
| Definitely a dreary time in both weather and activities. Poor child! Author Reply: Horribly dreary time, and what's worse, all the rain means that the winter crops can't get planted. The soil's too wet! Grandfa is grim and the farmers are grimmer... Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 2/10/2014 |
| Weather can be much of a sameness, sometimes--whether rain--or snow--or even heat! But when it's pleasant we pay no attention. Only when it keeps being unpleasant. It's cold again here, and more snow in the forecast, though possibly it will be pleasant by the weekend! Author Reply: Very true! Rain is pounding here, and lots of rain forecast every day in the foreseeable future, but somehow it's not so bad. It's a great improvement over ice and snow! I'll be glad when the last of the wintry mix melts and the sidewalks are merely wet, and not treacherous and tiring to walk upon. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 2/9/2014 |
| What a wonderful birthday for young Bilbo! I just loved it--especially Uncle Isen's gift! So wonderful to see this story updated! Author Reply: Thank you! Isen's gift was actually a direct result of Miss Dora Baggins' etiquette advice, so it worked out beautifully. Was the pipe a Tolkienism, by chance, or was it fanon? Unfortunately I cannot find a single scrap of Tolkien here in the house. Oh, all right, I can find The Hobbit and the Sil, but nothing else, not my Letters, nor Peoples of Middle Earth, and I'm especially bereft not to be able to find any of the THREE copies of LOTR that we have. *sigh* | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 2/9/2014 |
| Another tale updated that we've been waiting for! Lovely, lovely! And what appropriate gifts he's received! Am looking at the snow that has been accumulating on my doorstep since I got home at nine, and the pups have already left their doggy trails in it. Makes me glad to not be in the Shire during that Long Winter, although once again, in spite of heat tape, the pipes from the pressure tank have once again frozen. It is getting too much to constantly face such hazards! Gonna build an insulated room around the pressure tank when the weather is better--gotta be done! Love to the hubby, animals, and young ones! Author Reply: We made maple syrup candy this evening, boiling the syrup and pouring it over clean snow. Sticky but good. We were going to make snow ice cream, but I think the candy maxed out our sweet tooths (teeth?). Sorry to hear about the frozen pipes! Our garage door is frozen shut, and someone left the light on when going to fetch the snow shovel, early in the storm, and no way to get inside to turn off the light. *sigh* Thanks for the good words. Glad to hear you got home safely ahead of the storm. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 2/8/2014 |
| What an interesting, and thoughtful view of Gandalf. I wonder if wizards *do* fall ill? Author Reply: I wonder, too! (What an interesting speculation... I imagine he would not be the most patient of patients...) | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 2/8/2014 |
| lifting the carven wonder carefully in his hand Such a joyous, wonderful Birthday! Your descriptions of everything -- food and love and gifts -- made me feel as if I was there with them. Author Reply: It was a lot of fun to imagine and write out, as well. Been ripening long enough, whew. Finally got the inspiration to continue this story because of the amazing snowstorm that has blanketed our area and brought everything to a stop for the past three days. Now ice is falling, so we'll be stuck inside again tomorrow. It is amazing to look out on the winter wonderland. It hardly ever snows here. (It was a treat to be "stuck" at home today. Actually didn't feel guilty, sitting down and writing out a chapter or two, and reading a bit as well. What fun!) Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 3/29/2010 |
| Ah, perfect! Poor Gandalf, somewhere out in the wilds, and blessed Fortinbras, worrying about him. And thanks to our Dreamflower, figuring out the proper name for the equinox! Well done! Author Reply: Yes, Dreamflower is a treasure! Thanks! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 3/23/2010 |
| You can really feel how young Fortinbras is in this entry, and yet you can also see his compassion, as he worries about Gandalf out in the pouring rain. I too, wonder, did Gandalf ever fall ill? After all, one of the conditions under which the five Maia became the Istari is that their physical forms would be subject to all the physical infirmities of their appearance, with the exception of getting older (than they were to begin with), and clearly as we learned with Gandalf, they could even die. Yet we don't see any indication that Gandalf was ever sick or ill... And thanks for asking me that question! It was a fun thing to speculate on, and now I have a name for it as well! Author Reply: Now there's a bunny! Gandalf's first-ever cold... (Why do I have visions of hobbits tucking him up, with flannel-wrapped hot bricks for his feet and a mustard plaster for his chest?) Perhaps that's the nature of the pity that excited his interest in hobbits, as it says somewhere, I forget where, during the Long Winter. LOL! | |