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| Moments in Time by Larner | 1162 Review(s) |
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| Rayma3 | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/13/2005 |
| I just had to review. I really enjoy your stories and find myself checking if you posted something nightly. Your stories always have a calming and happy or contented aura to them. Thank you so much and keep up the wonderful work. Rayma Author Reply: Thank you, Rayma. Am so glad you enjoy my work and that you apparently liked this one. It's always a pleasure to get feedback such as yours. | |
| Gandalfs apprentice | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/13/2005 |
| Larner: Yes, please do leave the story titles at the top! I just found out about "If I Had a Hammer" from reading the other reviews. Now I'll go check it out! G.A. Author Reply: Have changed that now, Apprentice. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. | |
| Gandalfs apprentice | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/13/2005 |
| Hi Larner I haven't laughed so loud in rather a long while. It makes a delightful complement to Bodkin's series. Why don't you include a reference to send other readers that way? Thanks so much for all your kind comments on my drabbles and such! Gandalfs apprentice Author Reply: That was why I referenced both Bodkin and Grey Wonderer. Had to work If I Had a Hammer as well as Discretions and Reflections into this one somehow. Do you think I ought to have written the titles of the stories in my reference? Anyway, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I've been outlining in my head driving to work and back all weekend. | |
| lindahoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/13/2005 |
| This was an absolute gem,I just loved it was great to see a difeent side of Aragorn and learn there is something even he can't do ! I also enjoyed a chance for Aragorn and Frodo to be together. Author Reply: Glad you liked it. Try Grey Wonderer's "If I Had a Hammer" and Bodkin's "Discretion" to find the inspiration. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/13/2005 |
| What a delightful scene between King and hobbits! I love their easy familiarity with one another, and the fact that Pippin simply wouldn't let his King slip away alone, into who-knows-what mischief. Looking quickly to Lord Frodo, he realized that the slender Hobbit was not trying to deal with distress so much as struggling mightily not to laugh out loud, and that his eyes, which were too often sad and distant, were full of a mighty delight and humor. Wonderful! Author Reply: Glad you like it. I love to think that now and then something happened in Minas Tirith to get Frodo laughing, and that all were mightily glad of it. And after reading Bodkin's and the Grey Wonderer's latest efforts this one was just waiting to be told--the inexperienced trying to put together a simple bench.... You ought to read the chapter on archery practice and Shire cooking in my new story--I think that you will appreciate what Pippin and Isumbard come up with for dinner. | |
| Baggins Babe | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/22/2005 |
| This was such a painful and sad story to read, to think of Frodo feeling that much self-hatred that he would strike himself out of the Book of Baggins. Poor, poor Frodo! I really hope that when he is restored to the book, he has recovered enough in the West to be pleased. A great wrong has been righted and he is loved by so many. A terrific story, Larner. *mops keyboard* Author Reply: In my "universe" Frodo is pretty much restored to equilibrium before Bilbo leaves Arda, sometime in the spring of 1422, and that he had been experiencing the gift of healing from the moment he took ship at the Harbor of Mithlond, although as I've envisioned in The Choice of Healing even then not all was easy for him. But I think anyone in Frodo's position and condition would have found that their faults, including the fault of self-criticism, would have been magnified by the possession of and by the Ring awakened over such an intense period. I just rejoice that the gift of healing was given him, and am certain he was himself restored by the time Fosco and Forsythia came of age to right the wrong properly. I also tend to envision him realizing that some small burden had been lifted from him on the day he was restored to the Book of Baggins, even if he had no idea what was happening back in the mortal lands. What was more indicative of his true nature, however, was that Frodo never imagined striking Lotho from the Book of Baggins--that even after Lotho's betrayal of the Shire and eventual murder he would not forbid him the ties of family which mean so much to Hobbits. | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/21/2005 |
| How poignant..........Frodo should really think better of himself, what? Well, maybe not as much as he deserves or he'd be insufferable, but......but........well, you KNOW what I mean!! Author Reply: Tolkien wrote that Frodo both over- and underestimated himself before he quitted Middle Earth, and so I tend to look at how he did the latter. He was definitely his own worst critic, which was anything but fair, of course. I am glad you found it poignant. And thanks for both reading it and responding. I so love your work. | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/21/2005 |
| Oh my! He struck himself out of the family book? The feeling of guilt must have been overwhelming! But he really was a hero. No-one else could have accomplished what he did. And when Fosco and his sister think the time is right to restore his name with all his titles in the book, then I think Frodo is finally in peace and the feeling of guilt has gone. I really hope so! And I'm glad there's friendship again between the Bagginses and the Bracegirdles. Author Reply: The Bracegirdles had their faults, but I don't think they were all bad. That one of them should come to respect Frodo and to feel empathy for him I felt ought to be explored. And I certainly hope Frodo's unrealistic feelings of guilt was relieved once he accepted the gift of healing offered him. Thanks for the feedback. | |
| Julie | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/21/2005 |
| Beautifully written!! I've enjoyed this "series" you've created and this fits in perfectly. This was quite an emotional piece, especially with Frodo striking himself out of his family's book. I love the concept of the family book as well, it is reminiscient of family trees being recorded in the cover of Bibles, etc. Obsessed as the hobbits are with geneaology, I can easily picture them keeping a book of this sort. I noticed one small accidental error, however. At the end in The Book of Bagginses, you list Bilbo's parents as Drogo and Belladonna. Bilbo's parents were Bungo and Belladonna. I eagerly await more tales! Author Reply: That's what I get for finishing up a story so late at night. I'd been good at putting Bungo in there right up until the end of the story, and then I screwed it up. I also noted I'd put Aunt Dora at the final ceremony when I'd meant to reference sister Daisy. Thanks for the heads up, and I believe I have the errors corrected now. As for the Family Books--like you I'd thought each family would keep their own bits of genealogy in such a fashion; and I'll admit I was partly inspired by the thought of the Thain adding and striking folk to Old Yellowskin as described in other works I've read here and elsewhere, including Lindelea's works as well as certain others--I'm sorry--can't remember all the authors. I just imagine Frodo in one of his fits of depression and illness one night trying to do psychologically what he'd not done physically--a sort of figurative self-execution, if you will. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/20/2005 |
| Oh my! *sniffle*. What a sad and perfect addition to your universe. Author Reply: Am so glad it moved you, Dreamflower. I am honored, and honored you appreciate my universe. Thanks. | |