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| Remembering Anew by Pearl Took | 176 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 12/2/2006 |
| Accepting true is always difficult when it challenges our preconcptions. Author Reply: Yes, They've quite an up hill battle and I'm not sure how it ends myself at this point. Thank you, Larner :-) | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/2/2006 |
| Please submit my greetings to your muse, and tell her (or him) that I would really appreciate it, if that "Master" of Buckland was visited by the ghosts of Meriadoc and Peregrin! He may not be Scrooge, but he really deserves it ;-) Other and Jebbin have just started their "quest". It will be very different from Merry's and Pippin's, but they will be supported by their wives, who are both fascinating hobbit lasses - and (mostly) Tooks. This is going to be very interesting! I'm looking forward to reading more! Author Reply: Thank you for reading and responding, Andrea :-) I'm not sure if or when the ghosties will visit Macimas II. The impressions I have thus far are that, if they do, it will be later in the story not sooner - but we'll see what happens. Seeing as the story is now at a time when Jebbin hasn't even written his book, there's no need for ghostly visits to the Master at this time. But the ghosties will be in the story, I promise :-) | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 12/2/2006 |
| Hi Pearl. My reading time is scare at present and reviewing time even scarcer so just to let you know that you have me intrigued and I am reading as fast as I can. I'll try to drop in when i have a moment! Author Reply: Thank you, harrowcat, for letting me know you're reading this :-) Do what you can, it's a hectic time of year! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 12/2/2006 |
| Marrin and Clary have courage. A lot of people in their situation would have given in - superficially at any rate. Macimas - well, if the best anyone can say of him is that he is 'Efficient', I wouldn't want to hear the worst. Even Pompous sounds like flattery. This seems to be an indication that matters are going to get worse before they get better. A lot worse. Author Reply: They are brave hobbits indeed. Yes, "Efficient" isn't saying a whole lot, though it's a quality that is enviable when you don't have it - which I don't :-) Thank you so much for reading and responding, Bodkin! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/2/2006 |
| And, as the prologue indicates, it is indeed going to be tough. You don't crack through engrained prejudices without banging your head against a lot of brick walls. And enduring even more shunning and persecution. That narrow-minded pompous excuse for a rule-bound Brandybuck doesn't seem to have much in common with his Magnificent ancestor. I hope a certain couple of hobbits are able to come back and haunt him. This looks very interesting! Author Reply: Well, don't forget Lalia the Great (Fat), She was quite pompous. And Lobelia and Lotho were as well I'm sure when they ruled the Shire. I'm glad it looks interesting :) I'm not sure whom those two spirits may visit, but they will be putting in appearances :-) Thank you, Bodkin! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/1/2006 |
| Oh goodness, Pearl! You're going to write it--or, well, I guess you *have*, as you are posting it! Now I'm all a-dither, and wondering how the easy-going Brandybucks and the spirited Tooks managed to devolve into these rather stuffy and pompous excuses for hobbits. They most certainly need something to shake them up! But I have a feeling that in some ways Jebbin and Other may have a harder Quest to accomplish than Merry and Pippin did. (Not harder than Frodo did, certainly, but harder than his companions.) It may not be as physically dangerous, but it looks as though it will certainly be as dangerous in other ways if the Master of Buckland thinks he has the authority to order parents to disown their own children! Why, I can't imagine anything *less* hobbity! I hope perhaps *he* may be haunted by the shades of his illustrious ancestors--kind of like Scrooge was! Author Reply: Well . . . ah . . . "have" is too strong a word as I'm feart to say that at this time this is all that is written. Very unlike me as I usually wait till I have about 5 chapters ready to go before I start posting longer stories, that way I have a cushion. But whether it's the mood I'm in or the story itself - this one kept niggling to be posted. I'm not even quite shure what is coming next. This is a story that I'm having to wrestle away from my muse, she (he?) isn't giving it up easily. I think there had been stuffy, pompous Masters and Thains all along the way. We Know Lalia was a pain for certain. And hobbits in general can go bad, think Lobelia, Lotho, Ted Sandyman. Wealth and power have a tendancy to do that. Macimas II is a bad'un. Both you and Bodkin mention him needing a visit from certain forebears . . . That has gotten sent along to the muse, we'll see what comes of it :-) They definitely *will* be in the story though :-) | |