News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
| About Us News Resources
Login
Become a member
Help
Search
|
|
|
| Passover and Pilgrimage by Larner | 14 Review(s) |
|---|---|
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/20/2009 |
| There’s light and water now What a beautiful story. Getting Frodo's perspective on this special pilgrimage really is wonderful. (And I love the detail of Sam only bringing out the things he'd brought with him one by one, drawing out the storytelling and the sharing.) Author Reply: I'm so glad you like Frodo's ideas on the subject. He needs to appreciate just where this lake has formed, after all, and that the others would wish to do their best to follow him as they can, even so long after the original event. And don't you think these two would particularly wish to sustain the memories, particularly as the days pass, not glutting themselves too much after the first few heady days of reunion? Thank you so much, Shirebound! | |
| Celeritas | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/19/2009 |
| Oh, wow, I only just got the "Passover" reference... *facepalm* Thank you for your rather spirited defense to my snappish remark in last chapter's review! You're quite justified in how you're approaching this. And Eressea epilogues are always lovely. I think I was most touched by the idea of Frodo becoming rather irritable as he watched for signs of his former life and wasn't getting any, lol! It seems very in character. Thank you for this wonderful fic! Author Reply: Okay--now you understand, and perhaps the last little piece will click in once I put up the author's notes, probably on Monday or Tuesday, depending on when I resurface after this weekend with a little bit of energy--this working a fourteen-hour shift on Saturdays is starting to get to me! I do believe Frodo needed to feel he wasn't totally alone from time to time, and I do think he would become anxious not to share with folks at a time when he usually does so! And thank YOU for taking the time to read this and letting me know how you experience it! I am honored! | |
| Agape4Gondor | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/19/2009 |
| Lovely. A perfect epilogue to a perfect story. Author Reply: Thank you so, Agape--I am truly honored! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: Epilogue 2 on 6/19/2009 |
| Aww...it's over. I'd have loved to see the rest of their journey. But this was a lovely Epilogue. I especially liked Frodo's shudder at the thought of Pippin being Thain! It *is* so hard to think of those we knew as children all grown up and undertaking mighty responsibilities. I also liked the way he described his petulance when he couldn't find his friends under the White Tree! And his amazement when he discovered where the pictured lake was! Perhaps at some future time, you can tell us a little more about the journey, though! Author Reply: Maybe I'll look at the return journey at some future time, but I wanted to focus primarily on the lake and the meanings it had already garnered and then went on to garner further. And it is so difficult to accept that those we've known as children do grow up. I remember the first time I heard the name of a most gifted child I once taught in second grade announced as one of the new announcers on our news talk station for the region. There can't be two such people with that particular name! I wonder if he remembers the teacher he once had while he was in second grade? For Frodo, it must have continued to be a bit of a shock each time he heard or saw the name of a child and heard the experiences of a wife and mother, husband and father, and even at times a grandparent! For him there's been this timelessness, but out there the children have grown to adulthood without him! And I do think so he'd have often felt anxious and perhaps a bit ignored when he felt he'd gone too long without some reassurance that the others cared. And to realize he'd seen the remains of Orodruin, only now it's seen as a sacred place--that would have to create some special cognitive dissonance! Thanks so very much, Dreamflower! | |