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| One Who Sticks Closer than a Brother by Lindelea | 186 Review(s) |
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| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 9/15/2006 |
| Yay for the anonymous farmer! At least poor Tolly won't have to lay in the middle of the stream until the search party shows up! Author Reply: Yes, the fellow will have to have a name, won't he... but am too tired tonight to think what it might be. His sons are Ted and Ned, at least, but I don't remember if he had a name, himself, or not. Thanks for dropping by and stopping long enough to leave a note! I really ought to work on your bunny (dh has taken the little hobbits out for ice creams) but I think I'd rather go to bed early! It has been a long week. Whew. But think good thoughts, for there is adventure brewing. Thanks! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 9/15/2006 |
| Dear Lindelea please tell EF that this particular reviewer took a long time to come out from behind the keyboard. I lurked in many of the white spaces beyond the margins (to quote Larner) before I dared to declare myself in a review. It is the great responses that I get and the buzz of those interactions that keep me reviewing. I seldom, if ever, have anything intelligent to say but on the rare occasion that authors let me know that something I said has sparked a thought or idea I go around for weeks with a secret grin on my face. EF do jump in but, be warned, it is decidedly addictive! Author Reply: I'll tell EF what you said. Who knows, she just might start leaving thoughtful feedback instead of sneaking in to read and sneaking out again like a gollum. | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 9/15/2006 |
| Oh Meadowsweet. Sometimes it is good, right and proper to confide all your worries and fears. Sometimes it helps to put things on the right track! Author Reply: Poor Meadowsweet. She's just afraid that Tolly *wasn't* in trouble with the Thain, but that her question started Regi thinking that he *ought* to be. Still, Pippin's grown a lot since the last time, and I think Meadowsweet will find he's fairminded and a bit less inclined to fly off the handle. It helps that his son is safe in the Smials at the moment, too. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 9/15/2006 |
| I appreciate the setting of the stage, at least. Computer briefly down again--it keeps happening, doesn't it? So again am borrowing time at work. Author Reply: Dratted computers. They can be the best of tools and the worst of bothers. We're trading in our phone line for cable internet. Hopefully the computer won't die of shock at the change. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 9/15/2006 |
| Well, Pippin's exactly right, there *is* a perfectly reasonable explanation--though as we know that doesn't make it a *good* explanation! Poor Tolly is going to be in sad shape when they locate him, but at least they're sending searchers out. And poor Meadowsweet, not understanding any of it! Diamond's fears are reasonable ones for a mother, but Regi is being overly suspicious--sheesh, Pippin *knows* Sam, and he *knows* the King, you'd think Regi'd take the Thain's word for it that he knows what he's talking about. I like Pippin's firmness that he will not allow himself to be swayed into jumping to conclusions again. It caused enough trouble already. I know they'll find Tolly before he freezes to death, but I do hope things won't be too terribly dire... Author Reply: Goodness, we're an hour late in starting school. Both young hobbits awakened with a tummy ache, but are feeling better now, so we're going to go ahead with our day. Hmm, I never thought of the connection (or lack of such) between reasonable and good before! I'm glad they're sending searchers out. You know if it were Ferdi, he'd pull an amazing Strider-feat and follow the trail without half-trying... LOL Poor Regi. He is, for the most part, a most unimaginative hobbit. But he does a good job of following orders. Poor Tolly. I don't know if the freezing water would have helped his fever, or precipitated him rapidly towards pneumonia... But there's an ace up the Muse's sleeve, yet. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 9/15/2006 |
| Meadowsweet seems to be scared stiff by the knock-on effect of all the alarums and adventures of the last years - and I can't blame her. I hope Pippin and Diamond are able to convince her that she has nothing to worry about - not that way, anyway. (I'd love Tolly's released men to be found - and be harmless innocents. It's not as if he's lacking in judgment - or suspicion. And not every man deserves to dangle from a rope.) Of course, Tolly's absence is worrying in other ways. How long has he been in the water now? Too long! I'm glad to see Pippin isn't jumping to conclusions, but standing firm in his trust of his loyal hobbits. Long may it last! Author Reply: It might be hazardous to their health for Tolly's released men to be found, considering they were in violation of the Edict. Of course, Elessar himself is in the Northlands for another fortnight or so, and I suppose they might be able to appeal to the King himself, with the hobbits' backing. (Without the hobbits' backing I'm sure they'd be strung up without hesitation on the Rangers' part. But you're right, not every man deserves such a fate.) However, we'll see more of those Men in this story, at some point, rest assured. Thanks! Reviews keep the Muse quietly murmuring away. Funny how that works. (I keep telling EF that, but she says she can never think of something intelligent to say. I tell her to leave a "WOW THIS ROCKS!!!!! U R AMAZING!!!" or something like that, for authors she likes, but so far as I know she hasn't, yet. ...or, you haven't got one of those yet on SoA, have you?) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/15/2006 |
| Oh no! Hobbitsicle! Fingers tightly crossed that Wren decides to rush back to a warm stable in preference to hanging loyally around her collapsed master. Author Reply: Well, have been consulting with Sulriel about that... so all "horse" behaviour in the next few chapters has her stamp of approval. The Muse aims for realism, as you know. (So much as possible, anyhow.) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/15/2006 |
| Meadowsweet won't be happy when she realises she let Tolly disappear when he was ill - but she could hardly know there was anything wrong with him! Hindsight always suggests ways you should have known though and she's bound to feel guilty. Though the where's-Tolly squad probably won't feel so bad. Tolly has the kind of job that means he's not always where he's expected to be. But I hope they start looking soon. Or he'll be hyperthermic as well as everything else! Author Reply: Oh, that hindsight, certainly it can drive one mad. (Though not literally, thankfully.) | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 9/14/2006 |
| Oh dear! Some of you authors are getting far too good at cliff-hangers! *g* We will keep reading you know - even if you don't leave us dangling off cliffs or clinging to icy rocks! *shivers and grins* Now we don't need Tolly replicating Ferdi's tumble down the stream! At least he is likely to get the mud washed off! Author Reply: Sorry about that! I seem to organise chapters in cliff-hangers... guess it keeps my interest in the story, not to want to leave the characters hanging too long. The thought had crossed my mind as well, that Tolly has at least washed off the mud, at least up to his knees. Poor wet, bedraggled hobbit, who would ever recognise him as one of those high-and-mighty "Great Smials Tooks"? | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 9/13/2006 |
| Of course, Meadowsweet thinkgs Tolly's gone out to work early, and his co-workers just think he's hungover and late...wonder when they will put the peices together? I liked Pippin's and Regi's discussion. The subject of the edict, or of the idea that being banned from the Shire is a solution to things, is a problem you and I have both grappled with. Now that the Shire is once more an active part of the Kingdom, it will be harder to maintain the illusion that shoving the Shire's troubles over the Bounds solves anything. Men who have broken the Ban deliberately are subject to harsh and summary justice; hobbits who have been wicked enough to deserve banishment are prey to the dangers outside the Shire. Or if the troublemakers *do* survive, it would be to spread their sorts of trouble and wickedness elsewhere. For generations, hobbits have gone about with blinders on, and now, for some of them, the blinders come off, and they begin to realize how sheltered they have been. At least when it comes to Men who have broken the Edict now, they are not simply run out of the Shire, but actually turned over to the authority of the King! Author Reply: Sometimes it's hard to put all the pieces together unless you get everyone in the same room at once. Will have to see about that. In any event, they'd better get cracking. The Edict is a thorny problem, isn't it? I wish JRRT had written more about it, the whys and wherefores, and what role it might have played in the ultimate dissolution of the Shire. Thanks! | |