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| An Autumn Fair in Halabor by Soledad | 50 Review(s) |
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| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 12/23/2007 |
| Glad to have met the Ale-Wife! What an interesting and likable lady. She has a beautiful daughter, too. Fourteen or fifteen? Way too young to marry! But I guess that to secure your child's future, even when so young, was desirable in those days. Author Reply: Fourteen... which was a fairly normal age for a girl to marry in the Middle Ages. After all, a women - assumed she survived childbirth - was, around the age of 30, usually widowed, remarried and a grandmother already. | |
| Kage | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 12/23/2007 |
| X'mas must have come earlier for gifts of double chapters so fast ^_^ It's interesting to see the other side of the coin. Though I can understand the deserving good fortune for this honest hard working young man but still... I been feeling sorry for the wine seller Clemow since reading of his ill fortune. This chapter has cause my thoughts to turn back to his family. Author Reply: Well, "The Barn" is still operating in "The Last Yule of Halabor", which takes place ten years later (but was written two years ago *g*), so I assume Clemow & Co. have managed somehow. I'll try to put up the last two parts tomorrow, to finish the Advent Calendar on Xmas eve, as it is proper, so cross your fingers for the muse to cooperate. Happy holidays! | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 12/23/2007 |
| Oh, yes, last but not least...HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! May you have the best ever. Author Reply: Thanks. I wish the same for you. :) You've already made me an early Christmas, with reading and commenting so faithfully. | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 12/23/2007 |
| Aww, business! What is one person's bane is another's golden opportunity. The Ale House will reopen and the chips will fall where they may. *sigh* such is life. Great chapter...more? Author Reply: Your wish is my command. Come and meet the ale-wife! | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 12/23/2007 |
| Good chapter. Interesting food and customs. Now on to the next. :D | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 12/20/2007 |
| Oh, I would love to try some of that mutton as described, yum! Silly man, thinking so terribly macho, but I guess it is normal for a great hardy man to not be able to understand frailty. Even today, some men and even women can not seem to 'get it'. Author Reply: It's a strange thing, actually. The butcher was originally planned to be a much more... jovial character, generally content with his life and with the people around him. But he's somehow gained a life of his own and refused to be whom I had planned him to be, becoming instead the bully that you've met in this part. To be honest, the mutton treat is something I've made up at a whim of my heart. Only the pepper sauce is from the online Book of Goode Cookery. *g* | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/18/2007 |
| yes! A bow-maker! Love what a master can do with just the right piece of wood. *sigh* And we were introduced to another magnificent Elf. *another, bigger sigh* Wish I could write Elves as well as you do. Author Reply: Elves can be truly addictive, can't they? ;) | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 12/17/2007 |
| Cool! I like reading more of Lord Gildor. His history fascinates me. Imagine, having a mirhril chain in your possession and not knowing it! Another great chapter...too short, but great. ;) Author Reply: Thanks. :) Actually, keeping them short is the only way to produce a new chapter each day - and I'm lagging behind schedule as it is already. If you are interested in Gildor, try "Seaside Conversations 1 and 2", "Innocence", "Dreamwalkers", "Awakening" or "Twisted Paths of Fate". "Seal On My Heart" has lots of him, too, although that's an AU, and so not everyone's cup of tea. Unfortunately, I can't post them here, but you can find them in the TFF archive or on FF.Net. | |
| Neilia | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 12/16/2007 |
| At first, I thought *eewww! carving bones, what for?* Then I read the chapter. *Duh...for everything you can think of, silly.* Fascinating chapter. Would love more detail of this particular craft. Could you find more and 'sneak' it in? *giggle* :) Author Reply: Another time perhaps. ;) But it is true: people used bone for everything we use plastic for now. Only that it was more environment-friendly... | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/14/2007 |
| Ah, a wise man indeed. Glad he, too, didn't seek to overcharge his Elven customer much. | |