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| Making Acquaintance by Bodkin | 23 Review(s) |
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| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Amusing!I liked Merry's courage and Pippin's cheerfulness, even before such a big big person! That line was so fun, as he loked up and then up! Wonderful first meeting! Author Reply: If there are two qualities that seem to me to sum up Merry and Pippin, it's courage and insouciance. Gandalf must have seemed huge to Merry. Not so much to Pippin - but then the angle he was looking from was decidedly different! I'm glad you found it amusing. I don't write hobbits much - but they have great qualities. And I think Gandalf can see further into a brick wall than most! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Gandalf does have this knack for turning up when least expected and most needed! Delightful vignette about a "fortuitious" encounter! Author Reply: Well - there must be some advantages to being a wizard! Who is never late, but always where he intends to be ... or however it was phrased! Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the unexpected - but really rather lucky - encounter! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| 8-D Oh, this just made me grin all over my face! It was just exactly right--a perfect characterization for all three of our friends! I could feel Merry's exasperation and fear for Pippin, and his wariness of the stranger. And Pippin's bright and cheerful fearlessness was adorable. As for Gandalf--well, I've no doubt at all that is *exactly* what he would have both done and said in such a situation! Beautiful! You do write hobbits (and wizards) so well! Author Reply: I'm so pleased you like it! I tend to feel a bit out of my depth with the hobbits - so if you feel the characterisation is good, I'm delighted. Poor Merry is definitely exasperated - terrified and irritated in equal measure, probably! While Pippin bounces back with indomitable cheer! Typical of Gandalf to turn up just when he was needed to make the acquaintance of two hobbits whose support ensures that their cousin is in the right place at the right time. Thank you, Dreamflower. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| You have the voices of a couple of inquisitive hobbits down well. Pippin's cuiriosity is so well shown, you can just see why Gandalf is alternatley amused and wanting to shake him with a 'Fool of a Took!' later on. I wonder if Gandalf looks at this 'chance' meeting and sees that he may see the future of Middle-earth? Because we all know there are no chance meetings in Middle-earth. :D Happy Birthday Lindelea! Author Reply: Pippin has just such an inquiring mind - but he is courageous and intrepid. While Merry is, I think, a tad more pugnacious and protective. So much fate is involved in the happenstance of Middle Earth - I'm sure Gandalf would have been led there for a reason, and, being Gandalf, would know that he was meeting two who would be important - somehow or other - to the final outcome. I don't usually write hobbits - not unless they are interacting with other species, but they often have very distinctive voices. I'm glad you think they sounded right. Thank you, Nilmandra. | |
| Elflingimp | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Aw! whar can I say,I just loved it! Author Reply: Thank you, Elflingimp! I don't generally write a lot of hobbits, so I'm glad you enjoyed reading about them! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| What a wonderful story, Bodkin! Full of hobbity curiosity and courage, wizardy amusement and interest, and a slight foreshadowing of things to come. ‘You’re Cousin Bilbo’s Gandalf!’ Pippin declared, his face bright with excitement. ‘I’ve always wanted to meet you, but I never expected to see you here. Have you come to see Merry and me?’ ‘Do you know,’ the big person said, inspecting the cousins carefully, ‘I rather think that might be the very reason I have come.’ Just love it. Author Reply: Thank you, shirebound. I'm glad you liked it! I discovered it was Lindelea's birthday - and somehow, it just had to be hobbits. And Gandalf was determined to come along and play - I think he got a huge amount of entertainment from being described as Cousin Bilbo's Gandalf. And he got to meet a couple of rather significant hobbits, too. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Oh, I like this, Bodkin!! Just as if he was supposed to be there . . . Wonderful! Author Reply: Thank you, Pearl. I don't write hobbits all that often - but it seemed appropriate for Lindelea's birthday! And I would say that he was certainly supposed to be there right at that moment! I'm glad you liked it. | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Ohhhhh delicious....a Brandybuck and a Took...and.....Gandalf! Love the description of Pippin falling from the tree, wonderful, and Pip trying to bow in Gandalf's arms is just too cute for words. Good thing Gandalf showed just when he did. There may be a follow-up? Yes? Author Reply: Thank you, Armariel. It was definitely a good thing that Gandalf turned up at the right time to give Pippin a hand ... or two. And it certainly drew his attention to two of Frodo's favourite cousins. A follow-up? None planned! But you never know. | |
| French Pony | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| A fateful meeting, indeed! I'm not surprised that Gandalf makes Merry nervous. He's big and imposing even under the best of circumstances, but Merry is not only a Hobbit, he's a Hobbit child. So he's maybe two, two and a half feet tall, and then there's Gandalf, whose beard is probably that long. Yeah, I might be nervous if I were in Merry's place. Author Reply: Big people must be huge to small hobbits. Pippin is about 10, I think - 6-7 in human terms? I'm not too certain with hobbit equivalents. About 2/3rds, I tend to think. And Merry is about 18 - of 12-13. Big enough to feel he needs to act like an adult and young enough that it surprises people. I can just see him, somehow, determining that this is Buckland and he is a future Master - so it's up to him to stand up to this giant. Fortunately, Gandalf turned up at a good moment - and he is Cousin Bilbo's wizard, after all! Thank you, FP. | |
| meckinock | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/20/2007 |
| Happy birthday, Lindelea! Bodkin, this was delightful. Your descriptions are glorious, as always. I especially loved this one: as slowly as a drop of setting jam from a spoon, as slowly as thick honey running down a jar, as slowly as flake of snow drifting from a windless sky – and yet, at the same time, in the space between heartbeats and this one: enveloped in enough rather threadbare grey cloth to dress a dozen hobbits, hairier than a sheep before shearing, LOL. What an image! I love the instant warmth felt on both sides. For a superior, Wise, immortal being, Gandalf is wonderfully innocent and delighted by new possibilities, and the hobbits take to him like puppies. The foreshadowing was nice, too- Merry wondering if he would ever travel outside the Shire, and Pippin's sincere promise as a Took. Very sweet. Author Reply: Gandalf could recognise a nudge from fate when it happened! Turning up just at this point would be bound to make him look a second time at this pair. And a bit of foreshadowing seemed appropriate. Thank you for picking out pieces you liked! Time seems to both compress and extend at moments of crisis - while I doubt Merry has seen many beard. (Although he's seen a fair few sheep!) | |