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| If I had a Hammer by Grey Wonderer | 13 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/16/2005 |
| Now, that is an excuse I've not heard before! "My hammer-hand" indeed! Yes, Frodo, you have your hands full with this one. And love Sam's patience and instruction as he slowly eases an overeager Took into driving nails! As for the detective work--that is also pretty interesting. Now, fo find out exactly what the problem is.... This is continuing to be such great fun! Author Reply: Glad you are still enjoying this one. Sam is making great progress with Pippin in the carpentry department but Frodo still hasn't instilled a love of writing in Pippin. Seems that some things are much harder to make enjoyable. The detective work goes on and answers will turn up at some point, but with Pippin, you just never know what lies beneath the surface. Thanks for the reviews! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/16/2005 |
| OK, now I'm more bumfuzzled than Frodo about why Pippin's not staying in his room. And I know when you finally reveal it, I'll smack my forehead and call myself a ninnyhammer for not figuring it out! I like Sam's hammering lessons--Sam's a wise hobbit, as well as a patient one. Too many times older people somehow think younger ones should just *know* things--whether they've been taught or not. It's hard to remember sometimes. When my son was in the ninth grade, I had checked out the video of the old "Romeo and Juliet" (The old Zefirelli one from the sixties). I had just started watching it, and he came in, and decided to watch it with me. He was really getting into it, until the end. When he realized that the both of them *really* died, he got really ticked off. "Why didn't you *tell* me?" And it suddenly dawned on me that I had automatically expected him to just *know*--after all *everybody* knows that, don't they? But of course, he had not had to study the play yet in school, and he *didn't* know. He was very upset over it, too. It was kind of funny, but it was a lesson to me, too, not to assume what other people know. Author Reply: I know what you mean. It is so easy to assume that some things are known by everyone. I have done that many times only to be reminded that everyone has to hear a thing for the first time at some point. (I have a friend who reminds me of your son in that she hates movies were a lead character dies. She has the rest of us conditioned to *warn* her if there will be a serious death in a film so that she can decide if she will actually want to see it!) Sam must have realized that if he didn't give Pippin some instruction in hammering, that Pippin was likely to injure both of them. LOL This time it might have been more self-preservation than patients. He'd dodged that hammer once already. It shouldn't be too much longer before Merry, Frodo and everyone else has an answer about the sleeping problem. This story can't be much longer, can it? LOl | |
| Auntiemeesh | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 10/16/2005 |
| Ya gotta give Pippin credit for creativity! Can't do his writing lesson for fear of cramping his hammer hand, lol! He's still making the mistake of thinking that just because trained adults make something look easy, it should *be* easy, and if it isn't, then he must just be bad at it and that's the end of it. I hope he learns from this whole thing that everyone has to struggle and learn how to do things. :) Author Reply: I imagine that it must have been hard for Pippin to grow up with Merry and Frodo coming ahead of him and being so good at so many things. Thanks to Sam, Pippin is getting a chance to see that he can learn a thing or two. The creative streak is all his own, though. LOL Thanks for the review! | |