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| Questing by Thundera Tiger | 14 Review(s) |
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| Aiwen | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/11/2010 |
| I like the way you write the dwarves. I've never found them especially easy to understand, but I really like what you doing with them. Author Reply: Thanks for the review, Aiwen! I'm glad that you're enjoying the dwarves, even if they're not the easiest to understand. That's actually why I like them. They're this big mystery, and I've never been able to resist a puzzle. Thanks again for the review! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 4/11/2010 |
| Oh, oh, oh! I *LOVE* Gimli's mom! *grin* I love her arriving with a thunderous crash. I love everyone's wariness of her temper and her taking a stand for a "principle", LOL! And I love the fact that she makes things that are incomprehensible to her family (and probably other Dwarves as well) and the fact that Gimli and the apprentice made themselves scarce suggests that both her temper *AND* her passion were excercised on poor Gloin during their farewell! Great introduction of Gandalf to Gimli! And a brilliant use of foreshadowing at the end! Both for the addition of one hobbit burglar who'd have need of a spare cloak and hood, and for a time seventy years distant, when Gimli indeed will have other paths just as dark if not darker to walk. Absolutely marvelous story! I've really enjoyed it! Author Reply: Hey Dreamflower, Thank you so much for your review! I'm glad you enjoyed Aés. She surprised me as a character, and I really loved writing her sections. I'm also glad you liked the foreshadowing toward the end. I wasn't sure if I was overdoing it, but I wanted a tie-in to the later quest. As for the spare cloak and hood, that's actually what started the story in the first place. I was revisiting The Hobbit and wanted to work something of Gimli into the quest for Erebor. Dwalin's spare cloak and hood seemed like as good a place as any to insert my favorite dwarf. Thank you again fro the review! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 4/9/2010 |
| Oh poor Gimli! So torn between wanting to go with his father, and wanting his father to be safe! I love the backstory of all the motivations here that are revealed by Dwalin: the idea that Dis is behind her sons' going, that Gimli resembled Thorin's brother, the clear evidence that Balin is a close enough friend with Thorin to risk his displeasure-- all of this is fascinating. I am loving this story so much! Of course, there's another reason that does not actually enter into any of their calculations: if Gimli had gone, they'd have been fourteen, and had no need to seek out a certain hobbit-burglar to fill their number. But that's story-external... It also makes me wonder how Gloin felt when the shoe was on the other foot about seventy years later, when his son goes on a dangerous Quest, and he's the one left behind. I wonder if he remembers this, and realizes how his son must've felt... Author Reply: Hey Dreamflower, I am so relieved that the backstory works for you! I wanted to add some complexity to the situation that started the ball rolling in "The Hobbit," but I wasn't sure if I'd overdone it or underdone it. And I wanted to make these guys real characters. Well, some of them, anyway. Taking on all thirteen dwarves was a bit daunting, but I thought I might be able to do something with at least a few of them. So I'm also glad to hear that this worked for you, too. As for that story-external number 13 problem...I kept coming back to that and wondering if I should address it, but in the end, it didn't seem to fit. Yes, it's crucial for getting Bilbo involved later, but for this story, the group is more or less fated to begin with. Tacking on anything regarding the number 13 seemed like overkill, and it created problems that I couldn't easily write out. Anyway, many thanks for the review! I always love hearing from you. You have some amazing insights! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 4/7/2010 |
| Ooooh! THIS is really great! I've never read a fic about how Gimli reacted to his father undertaking the Quest of Erebor! I love the culture you've created, and the powerful emotions between father and son here! And already we have Kili's (and by extension, Fili's) personalities: presumably they are a bit older than Gimli, since Gimli's youth prevented him from going-- but Gimli comes across as a lot more mature. And we learn a lot about Gimli's mother even though she doesn't even appear. Oh, I'll definitely be looking forward to more of this!!! Author Reply: Thank you so much, Dreamflower! I'm so glad that the culture and the personalities feel real to you! That was something I really wanted to nail down while writing, and I also wanted to build a strong bond between Gloin and Gimli. The next chapter introduces a partial explanation for why Fili and Kili might seem less mature than Gimli though they are definitely older. I'm not saying anything about Gimli's mother, though. She's pretty crazy, and I would hate to get on her bad side. :) | |