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| Dreamflower's Mathoms III by Dreamflower | 184 Review(s) |
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| Eruherdiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 7/4/2015 |
| Happy Birthday! I love the idea of "dring-thing". That was awesome. ~Tortoise Author Reply: Well, here I am a year later and just now finding reviews for this story! I thought "dring-thing" sounded rather hobbit! | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 7/2/2015 |
| Beautifully done. I don't know if I've read this before. I forgot to look to see if I'd left a review earlier. (How odd, to be able to read a story and then forget it. But it has happened a time or two. Chalk it up to busyness and stolen moments, reading in haste.) It's such little details as this, that breathe life into your stories. the others had long since ceased to eat, but he reached over and took the last apple from the bowl. I read in a review reply that you'd thought of another scene with Merry and Pippin, except it would be sad. I thought of one, too, not quite so sad -- Merry and Pippin, just after they've handed their seals to their successors and come to Gondor in their old age. Pippin is sitting on a garden bench, swinging his legs as if he were still the young hobbit, and Merry is leaning against the bench smoking his pipe, both of them talking quietly, perhaps about events long past. Elessar and Arwen are looking over a wall at them, having just been told of their arrival; that they came quietly into the city with a small travelling party of merchants, without fanfare. It is a contemplative moment, before a joyous reunion. I hope that thought brings you comfort. Author Reply: I know that I've always believed that Merry and Pippin had several years of a pleasant and well-deserved retirement in Gondor, being both respected and coddled and spoiled by all in the Court of Elessar. (Sorry for not replying sooner. I am finding several reviews that I somehow missed when they first appeared!) | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 7/2/2015 |
| Wonderful! Happy birthday! I love Pippin and Diamond's loving relationship (and "later"!) The Edict expired? Nice solution to a thorny problem for fanfic writers, especially those who prefer to reside in the Shire and only venture out upon occasion. Menelcar! I was on pins and needles, trying to guess... I thought, perhaps, an organ, but my next thought was a piano, and when I read about the quills plucking strings on the box-harp versus hammers, I knew I was right! Lovely story. Author Reply: *grin* I enjoyed writing their flirty conversation! In this AU, the Edict had a trial period, and in the year that in canon it was to become permanent, the hobbits voted to allow it to expire. Since the only ruffians were those imported by Lotho, and no Sharkey, the Scouring was a much less perilous time. Yep. I like Menelcar. I figured a lot of my readers would guess! I'm glad you did! | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 7/2/2015 |
| First, happy, happy birthday! :) This was absolutely delightful! I love the idea of Pippin having a piano to play and Frodo and the others making it happen for him! I'm usually a silent reader these days, as I've turned my writing officially and exclusively to original work now, but I still love visiting my friends here, and the first place and people who made me feel at home as a writer. And since the piano is dear to my heart as well, I just had to tell you how much I love this! :) And know that even if I'm often quiet, I'm also often reading and enjoying your beautiful sweet stories as much as ever. Author Reply: Thank you very much dear! I am glad to know how you are doing. I think that even if I ever took up traditionally published fiction, I'd still need to write about hobbits! It's kind of like breathing and eating for me. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 7/2/2015 |
| OOH! Having grown up with a nine-foot concert grand Baldwin in my living room, I LOVE this! How wonderful to have a piano on which to play in the Shire! And Frodo, of all people, had a part in seeing to it that the byrding was outshone by his gift? Love it! Delightful! Author Reply: Well, it was young Faramir's idea; he was homesick and missed his papa. But I am sure that Frodo had quite a lot of fun, and knew just what effect it would have! I have a piano, an upright. It was one of the first gifts my husband got for me after we moved into our first house, and was purchased on the "rent-to-own" plan. And we had a piano growing up as well, a spinet, though, not a grand or an upright. It was more common than not back in the 50s and 60s for families to have pianos and make their kids take lessons, LOL! (Though I did enjoy my lessons and practicing.) | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 7/2/2015 |
| Thank you for such a delightful birthday gift to all of us! I enjoyed this immensely, especially imagining young Faramir in the middle of an exciting new conspiracy. I can easily picture Pippin playing his beautiful instrument, with hobbits young and old gathered about him. *happy birthday hugs* Author Reply: Originally I was going to write the Faramir end of things as well, but ended up putting all that in the letter from Frodo. I always love the chance to revisit this AU! (((hugs back))) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/27/2015 |
| Each vignette is a perfect expression of the power of this proverb as shown by Bilbo, Frodo, and Sam in especial. You have done the proverb so much honor, and so admirably! Author Reply: I really wanted to include a moment with Merry and Pippin, but the only one that came to me was sad, and I wanted to end on a joyful note. Thank you! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/27/2015 |
| Very nice story! Gilraen looked at the wizard. "Always it is the Shire with you! What is it you see in those little people?" That must have been the thought of many people before the Ring War. Only Gandalf (and maybe some dwarfes and elves) knew about the special qualities of hobbits. And I am very glad that he could convince Aragorn that he was right. Author Reply: Before the Ring was found, hobbits were more or less a secret, I believe. And any who had never seen the way they reacted to trouble would not know of their true abilities. | |
| NotACat | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/26/2015 |
| Very nice indeed. I like the way you draw together little vignettes of interaction with a common thread ;-) I did spot a couple of spelling and punctuation issues, the latter mostly involving closing quotes. Also, isn't the singular of Istari "Istar"? Author Reply: Thank you! I'll recheck. I had to compose part of it on my iPad, which can do odd things to my spelling without my knowledge; I've yet to figure out how to get the autocorrect to be less enthusiastic and strange. But you are correct about "Istar". Good call, thank you. | |
| KathyG | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 6/25/2015 |
| The hobbits are not the only ones with great souls--so is Aragorn! Author Reply: Yes, Aragorn himself and Gandalf as well. You found out the hidden meaning in the story: that great souls will recognize one another, and yet may miss their own greatness. (Because one part of a great soul is humility.) | |