Trust a Brandybuck and a Took! by Grey Wonderer
Pearl Took · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 19: To Coin A Phrase...
Just wonderful, tying these stories together. I so enjoy these stories, they are bright little spirit lifters :) Thank you!!
Author's reply
Now that is just too nice of you, Pearl. Thank you so much. You have been the spirit lifter this time. Your reviews always brighten my day.
Dreamflower · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 19: To Coin A Phrase...
*chuckle* Good one, GW! "As slippery as a Took on ice..." has such a nice ring to it! So Bilbo wasn't the only one to coin phrases, huh? But there are so many other possibilities: "as firm as a Took stuck to a table"; "as frightened as a Took of chickens"; "talkative as a Took"; "as fond of tomatoes as a Took"; and let us not forget "as inventive as a Brandybuck" 8-D
Author's reply
You should do an entire book of these phrases! LOL Seriously, the one for Pip, "as slippery as a Took on ice", comes from an old saying of my grandmother's which is actually "as slippery as a hog on ice" or sometimes, just "like a hog on ice". I have no idea where the saying comes from or what it means, but she uses it from time to time and it seemed to fit for Pippin's situation. To take one from you, how about "as musical as a Took", or "as sneaky as a Banks"? Thanks for the review!
pipspebble · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 18: Snow and Ice
Oh, such tension! This was very well written, stretching the rescue out to an agonizing degree. I hope this teaches Merry a lesson. I knew he was in for it when he wouldn't turn away from those maps. I really like this chapter! :-)
Author's reply
This one is a bit longer and a bit more tense than the other ones in this group. I am glad that you liked it. Poor Merry, look at all he has to go through just to spend a few hours enjoying some maps with Frodo. LOL
shirebound · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 18: Snow and Ice
This is so adorable, and quite a believable scene! I like to imagine little shivery Pippin waking up in bed to find Merry there with Frodo, and Pip feeling loved. :)
Author's reply
I almost contiuned this one, but I decided to stop where I did with Merry taking care of Pip on the way to the Hall. Maybe at some point, I'll take it a bit further. Thanks so much for the review and for reading.
Pearl Took · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 18: Snow and Ice
Precious!! Absolutely precious!! These are just such wonderful stories. :)
Author's reply
Thank you so much. This one showed up last night and I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote the entire thing down. Thanks for the reviews!
Dreamflower · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 18: Snow and Ice
Oh this one was wonderful! Very different from your others, a bit of humor, but mostly some nice tension and danger. I did like the hobbit version of hockey, and I really enjoy your Fredegar--he's a very sweet and responsible young hobbit, and very good with Pippin. And Frodo's assessment of Merry, so on target--that he would do whatever it took to get to Pippin, even if it were a bit reckless. And finally the ending with Merry carrying his beloved Pip back, just so sweet! And *that* will teach Merry and Frodo to go looking at old maps when Pippin wants to play, won't it? So there!
Author's reply
Maybe the Shire should form a Hobbit-Hockey League now? LOL Thanks for reading and I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Auntiemeesh · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Oy! The things these lads get up to. I repeat, some day Pippin will learn to not trust Merry. Someday. Another very fun chapter. I'm enjoying this series a great deal. :)
Author's reply
Thank you! I figure that it was one interesting scheme or disaster after another with Merry and Pip. I suppose I will keep writing these until I just run out of messes to put one or both of them in. LOL
Auntiemeesh · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
Attack of the Killer Chickens! It sounds like a fifties horror movie, lol. Very funny. Poor, trusting Pippin. Some day he'll learn. He might be about 100 when it happens, but he'll learn, someday.
Author's reply
If Pip catches on, what will Merry do for fun? LOL As to the Chickens, well, I hear that the Shire was full of Killer Chickens back in the old days. That year when the river froze over and the wolfs got into the Shire, I think it was the chickens that ran off the wolves. hehehe
EllaG · 26 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
How sweet! I so wish someone would make a movie and show us how everyone lived after the quest!. Lovely story, very enjoyable reading!
Author's reply
Thank you. I very rarely try anything romantic, but this one just came to me. I had written a little bit about Pip meeting Diamond for the first time in a longer story "Many Happy Returns", but that story was mostly about birthdays past and present and the Diamond/Pip meeting was only a small part of it. Glad you enjoyed it and many thanks for the review.
PIppinfan1988 · 23 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Wow...I'm speechless...and melted all over my family room carpet from reading your steamy romance novel!!! I LOVED IT! Pippin's first kiss! I was wondering when Pippin was going to get up the nerve to plant one on her lips. Was she taunting him, or what? ;-) And naturally, I always love the banter between Merry and Pippin. Hope our Merry and Estella are next! Thanks for sharing. Pippinfan
Author's reply
That you for "sticking around" to read this one. LOL I got a bit carried away on this one, but I did stop before it went all NC-17 on me. I like to think that she was taunting him a tiny bit, but I believe it was worth it for him. LOL Glad you enjoyed it. Maybe Merry will glue someone else to something once he's perfected his mixture. (mad scientist that he seems to be in this one.)
good_one_pip · 22 October 2004 · Chapter 14: Skirmish
only pippin and merry would get themselves stuck in a closet. It's not very often those two really fight, but I guess they had their moments too! LOL! It's funny that when girls fight, they just get upset and won't speak to each other for a long time, but when boys fight, they knock each other senseless, and they're friends again when it's all over. Merry's size compared to Pip didn't get the best of him this time!
Author's reply
Thanks for the review and I am glad you enojoyed this. I have always thought that boys do the fighting thing better. They get it over with and go on. I figure that once in a while Merry and Pippin had a bit of an arguement. I had the scene from the extended DVD of Two Towers in mind when I wrote this, the one where they are arguing over the Ent draught.
good_one_pip · 22 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Oh, that is single-handedly the funniest Pippin-Merry story ever invented! It was a good thing I was home alone, or my whole family might have come running into the room to see what I was laughing so hard about (to the point of not being able to breathe!) So the paste was useful after all! LOL I love the scraps Merry and Pip get themselves into. Keep writing these little stories!
Author's reply
Now that's what I love to hear! It made you laugh! I'm so glad and thanks for the great review. It made me very happy! I am sure there will be more of these before long.
good_one_pip · 22 October 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
I looooooove these stories! Poor, gullible, Pippin! I loved the last comment. Perfect for the moment. Hilarious, you've done it again grey wonderer!
Author's reply
Thank you! Some might think the killer chickens were a bit much, but once in a while I just go over the edge on these things. Glad it gave you a laugh.
GamgeeFest · 7 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Merry rather lucked out there. Pippin would have strangled him if he wasn't so distracted. What a fun and lovely chapter. I love your characterization of Diamond, and her and Pippin are just too cute together.
Author's reply
Thank you. I almost posted this one on its own rather than with the Brandybuck and Took stories because it is about Diamond and Pippin, but I decided that since Merry played a major part in it all that I would post it in with these others. Thanks so much for reading!
PIppinfan1988 · 5 October 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
ROTFL!! This story was a sight for sore eyes--after all the angst I've been dealing with lately... What a brilliant sense of humor you have! *Merry* wicked?? How 'bout the author who weilds the pen?? :-P Another fascinating story complete with fabulous Merry-Pippin banter! Thanks for sharing! Pippinfan
Author's reply
Me, wicked? You heard what Frodo said, "This entire thing was Merry's fault." I just gave him a "little push out of the door."(Gandalf) Actually, it was those chickens that caused all of the trouble. hehehe
Anso the Hobbit · 5 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
I saw this on your LJ but I haven´t had time to read it before now. Thiw as so great! Diamond to the rescue, lol! And evil Merry. :) I enjoyed this very, very much. Thank you.
Author's reply
Thank you. I have no idea where this plot came from. It just turned up and I had to do it. Evil Merry did come back to rescue Pippin. Diamond just got there first. LOL
Bodkin · 5 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Tact, to Pippin, is a four letter word, isn't it? I'm with Merry - pasting him to the table is a very good idea. Of course, it turned out to be an even better idea when the beauteous Diamond turned up to give him her assistance, and indulge in a little oral exercise. By the end, Pippin must have been seriously grateful to Merry.
Author's reply
Oh, I believe that he was very grateful. LOL
Hai Took · 5 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Absolutely marvelous! I had a great laugh with that! Merry sticking Pippin to the table in the first place then all of Pippin's efforts to get un-stuck, I liked it best when he slid under the table and couldn't get back out! I guess he enjoyed being stuck to the table more than he thought he would ;) Thanks for the fun!
Author's reply
I think that pippin enjoyed his time with Diamond in spite of his embarrassment at being glued to the table by Merry. Glad that this gave you a laugh!
Rosie-Ann · 4 October 2004 · Chapter 11: In A tent Somewhere in Hobbiton
*laughs uncontrollably* That's rich! Really rich! The perfect end to a "Perfect" night.
Author's reply
Yes, I would love to spend a night in a tent with those three. LOL Thanks for the review!
Rosie-Ann · 4 October 2004 · Chapter 2: A Nasty Turn of Events
*hoots with laughter* Oh, by Varda this is FUNNY! So like Merry and Pippin, too. Pippinfan has had nothing but praise for you, and now I know why! Kudos for a job well done! ~Rosie-Ann
Author's reply
Thank you for the lovely review. Pippinfan is one of my favorite authors and a very nice person. I must thank her for the recommendation. Come by and read any time.
Dreamflower · 4 October 2004 · Chapter 17: The Wedding Table
Oh dear! 8-) What an *unusual* (ahem) beginning to Pippin's and Diamond's courtship. I love your Merry in this. He does tend to be a wee bit obsessive sometimes, doesn't he? A paste for wood, hmm? But Pip's changed a bit. Little Pip would have had the utmost faith in Merry's paste and never doubted for an instant that it was a brilliant idea just because Merry thought it up. Maybe one reason Merry got so angry is that he misses Pip's blind faith a bit. Still, he *was* on his way to rescue him, and had the sense not to, when he saw the results. LOL! Very cute story, and thought provoking.
Author's reply
I don't think Pippin has changed too much really. He had just, unfortunately, seen the paste fail repeatedly for several weeks and was a bit out of patience with it all. I am sure that when Merry announced his intentions to make paste, Pippin believed that he could, but at nearly 31, even Pip would have to realize that Merry's paste was less than perfect. LOL For some reason I just have this mental picture of Merry as the kid who got the chemistry set at Christmas. I guess it is all of his studies of herb lore and his organized personality. Once he let Pippin stew a bit, he planned to rescue him, but Pippin managed to find another way out of his troubles. The sweat from his nerves loosened the paste. As I told someone else, I am not too good at romance-writing and so I decided to go a very different way with Pip and Diamond. It has the advantage of not having been tried before. Thanks for reading!
good_one_pip · 2 October 2004 · Chapter 6: The Cart
These are great stories! Very funny and Merry-and-Pippin like. I love it!
Author's reply
Thank you! I appreciate the review. Glad you enjoyed them.
Dreamflower · 30 September 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
I have got to say that this is my favorite one of these yet! I read it the other evening, and didn't have time to review. I nearly died laughing. Then I showed it to Marigold, and the two of us sat in front of my computer and laughed ourselves to tears. Reading it the third time, and I'm still laughing so hard I can hardly stand it!! I love this--I love the little framing story in Minas Tirith, and that they are telling Sam a story he hasn't heard before. I love the way Pippin's older cousins react to his attempts to garner sympathy. And the chicken story!!! OMG!! You are so brilliant! Killer chickens, of all things! And Merry, traumatizing poor little Pippin like that, just wicked! And of course, most brilliant of all, Merry getting his come-uppance from Pip all unknowing, just dear little Pip, so proud of his Merry for taking care of him, LOL! I think I'm going to read it for the fourth time!!
Author's reply
Oh, so you're the one who's reading this one! LOL Glad you liked it. You never know how killer chickens will be received. They are a much-misunderstood farm animal. I decided that Sam would be the perfect one to hear this story. I am sure he missed some of Merry and Pippin's early adventures. I doubt that Pippin would have given Merry away on purpose, but in an attempt to brag on his dear cousin, he let the cat or chicken, as it were, out of the bag. So glad this gave you a laugh.
Pearl Took · 29 September 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
Another wonderful, wonderful story!!!! These have just been such enjoyable stories. Thank you so much :-)
Author's reply
Thank you! Stop by and read any time you like. I appreciate the feedback.
Jeodo Brandybuck · 29 September 2004 · Chapter 16: The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin
Hee hee hee hee hee hee ... oh, wait. I said that about the last story. Killer chickens. This is too cute. I love your portrayal of the childhood of our beloved hobbits. They're warm, real, and very, very funny. Thanks for a heart-warming, toe-wriggling read. Jeodo Brandybuck
Author's reply
Hey, I made someone's toes wriggle! That's way cool. Thank you for reading and for the review. Oh, and if all you want to put is Hee hee hee, that's more than fine. I love it when these make people laugh. The toe-wriggling was an extra bonus! Guess it was the killer chickens what did it.