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| The Tenth Walker by Lindelea | 703 Review(s) |
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| KathyG | Reviewed Chapter: 109 on 2/17/2022 |
| Having to endure a blizzard is no fun for man or beast, and that's a fact! Bill is holding out nicely in spite of everything. Author Reply: Definitely no fun. I grew up in blizzard country. I don't miss it at all. To misquote WC Fields, "Snow fascinates me. I could watch it for hours." But I don't want to deal with it, drive in it, or shovel it. Give me cool sunlight and green grass any day. I don't even mind that our corner of the world has fewer sunny days than the national average. Thanks! (p.s. I'm enjoying beginning to catch up on your story again. Please give my best to DF and Linda Hoyland.) | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 109 on 2/16/2022 |
| the warmth he has poured into me lingers deep inside I love that gentle and comforting moment. Author Reply: Thank you! It is so good to hear from you. I hope this finds you well. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 107 on 1/10/2022 |
| And now it is time for Gandalf to show forth the control he has over his principle element. Have been working hard, and too often without sufficient rest. Lady Morwen is in need of repair, and I couldn't get a rental a couple weeks ago. However, transportation is no longer a problem. Time for writing is too often fleeting as soon as it is glimpsed. Hopefully something will be posted soon. Love to the family and your Panda. Author Reply: It was so good to see you! We have eaten up all the fruit and nuts, which were lovely, rather like a taste of sunshine in the winter gloom. Do you suppose hobbits give dried fruit and nuts as winter presents? It seems quite reasonable to do so. (Although last week was uncharacteristically sunny and mild. In fact, one of the not-so-wee hobbits came back for a visit and remarked on missing the usual grey skies and rain, which stayed away throughout the entire visit and only came back after we hugged goodbye.) I am glad you found time for writing. Your latest chapter is perfect, full of your usual casual-seeming details that bring the scene to life and wonderful characterisations. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 106 on 1/10/2022 |
| Back. That is a quote that is surely fit for the occasion as well as the weather we in the Pacific Northwest have been through that has now moved eastward so relentlessly. Love Merry's latest descriptive name, and that Gandalf shares the mirror with Bill as well. Now, to put those faggots to use. Author Reply: The weather has been something, hasn't it? I have watched the videos of (what starts out as) our storms moving across the country, dropping quantities of snow. I do not miss Midwestern blizzards. No, not at all. It felt practically like almost-summer last week, but thankfully the cool sunlight and green grass (and grey skies) are back again. I am not looking forward to summer. I know the book doesn't say anything about Gandalf sharing with the pony, but it seemed quite natural, somehow, to imagine that happening. It would have been churlish to leave him out! Thanks! | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 107 on 12/9/2021 |
| "Sun kicks off her bedcovers and makes her way across the sky, and sometimes it seems as if she is running races, like a frisky colt, and at other times as if she can crawl no faster than a snail on a leaf." I love it. Hehehe. It's very cold and possibly snowy where I am. Author Reply: We had a white Christmas this year, very unusual for us! (Usually, our snow hits at Thanksgiving or after New Year's, and Christmas is rainy instead.) But I have been watching news reports of snow, and remembering living in the Snow Belt, where winter was rather refreshing with the first storm, but rather wearing on a body as it lasted... and lasted... and lasted... I hope this finds you warm and snug. | |
| KathyG | Reviewed Chapter: 108 on 12/7/2021 |
| Good thing that Gandalf's with them! He'll save the day. =) Author Reply: Yay for Gandalf! "G" is for "grand"! (indeed.) Thanks! | |
| Mirkwoodmaiden | Reviewed Chapter: 108 on 12/5/2021 |
| Lindelea! So happy to see your posting! Haven't yet had the time to read the chapter yet but had to at least take the time wave and see how you have been. ((hugs)) MM Author Reply: Waving back at you! I just had to sign in to read Larner's latest, especially since it's a birthday present (and such a lovely one!), and then I lingered to finish (at last, whew) the latest chapter of Bill's story, which has been sitting half-finished on my hard drive for about forever. But at least our friends have a fire now, and what with all the snow that's been falling lately all over, it seems rather appropriate to kindle a warming fire. {{hugs}} Lin | |
| sue | Reviewed Chapter: 108 on 11/29/2021 |
| Hullo Bill! Still freezing you poor guy. Here's a warm bran mash to warm you up and a hug to warm your heart. Love, Sue Author Reply: Bill whiskers and rubs his head against your arm before plunging his muzzle eagerly into the warm brain mash... Hullo, Sue, so glad to hear from you! Alas, poor Bill, there is still some story to get through before he finds comfort. *sigh* But the happy ending will be so satisfying to write! Author Reply: "whiskers" was supposed to say "whickers", but spell-checker sneaked in a "correction" in a "helpful" moment. (I seem to recall someone comparing the spell-checker to a small, drunken elf living under the keyboard, wobbling around and making ever-so-well-intended changes in the twinkling of an eye, just before the author hits "submit". | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 108 on 11/29/2021 |
| Yeah! You are back. As many reviewers noted, we go from reading about cold during an august heat wave, to reading about snow in November. Some of us have already had one snowstorm, or more. Although, in my Snake River Valley, we are having an unseasonably warm November. I like Shirebound's comment on the "otherness" of Legolas. I have read comments over the years where people say that due to his close friendships with mortals, Legolas almost seems "half-elven", like the twins. Here, tho, you very much show his confident ties to nature, and his own inate power. Your Bill has very much noticed all of the little things which make up his companion's personalities. Author Reply: Yay! I carved some time from work to finish this chapter and part of the next, so at least Bill's story should move forward this week. (I am hoping for more time to work on the puppy story, too, but I'm on another deadline at work, so we'll see...) Think good thoughts. After worrisome drought (the drought maps were a waking nightmare), we are experiencing record rainfall for the month. Better than drought, anyhow. I wonder if we'll have snow this year? In any event, there's plenty of snow in the current chapters of Bill's story. Thank you so much for stopping to tell what you noticed! It seemed to me that as a Wood Elf, Legolas would have a special connection with trees, somehow. Didn't JRRT say something about the Elves trying to talk to all living things? It has been interesting to contemplate. And I still remember being struck, decades ago, by the 'otherness' of Legolas when the members of the Fellowship were descending Caradhras, and he was running lightly over the snow. And I got that 'cold as ice, hard as steel' impression when he shot the Fell Beast out of the air - in the darkness, wasn't it? My brain insists it was the one sent to collect Pippin from Saruman after the fool of a Took looked in the palantír, but I must admit, it has been a few years since I've read the books, and I might be misremembering. I have begun again, listening to a chapter a day in audiobook form while winding down from work at the end of the day. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 108 on 11/29/2021 |
| I like seeing this scene filled out so beautifully, and how Bill is seeing and sensing the 'otherness' of Legolas. Good wishes to you, my friend! I hope life is bringing you many things for which to be thankful. Author Reply: Thank you, my friend. I think that Bill's pony senses would definitely pick up on such things. We had a wonderful, relatively quiet holiday, but including some blessed time with loved ones that we don't see often enough. I hope this reply finds you well, and send my warmest wishes in return. (I saw in another review of someone's story, you said you might write again, perhaps...? How lovely that would be. I mean to imply no pressure, simply encouragement and cheer. I think, once this latest deadline at work is put to bed, I will polish off the next Bill chapter and then seek out one of your Cormallen stories for a respite.) Hugs. | |