Tari · 13 March 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
All three ficlets were absolutely wonderful. What a beautiful tradition to pass on. It was a tribute to Boromir also. I have Agape to thank for telling me about them. Thank you so much for writing them. Tari
Yule by Rhyselle
Reviews (12)
Bodkin · 27 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
A precious way for traditions to spread - and a glorious way to remember their friend and defender. I love that Merry and Pippin were still setting the light boats sailing downriver even in old age. Loyal, they both are - their love, once won, doesn't fade.
SurgicalSteel · 24 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
I like the idea that Merry and Pippin both so enjoyed this tradition that they eventually continued it in their own homelands. Just lovely!
SlightlyTookish · 22 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
What a sweet tale of love and tradition!
Author's reply
Thank you very much for reviewing! I'm so glad that you liked it.
wyvernrh · 22 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Excellent!, Good tight writing, following up the previous equally good tale. Binds the various cultures in a way that is very believable and distictly non-twee. (err, if you are not English/Australian that is a compliment ;-)
Author's reply
Thank you very much! I lived in England with the US Navy for four years in my younger days and so I do realize that it was a compliment! LOL! I'm so glad you liked it and it's predecessors.
harrowcat · 22 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Lovely Rhyselle. It made me want to cry!
Author's reply
I do hope they were happy tears! Thank you very much!
Grey Wonderer · 22 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Beautiful! It has been quite some time since I made a paper boat. This is a great tradition.
Author's reply
Thank you! I wonder now if next year turning there won't be a whole lot of storiesofarda.com authors and readers setting their wishes afloat. :)
Agape4Gondor · 21 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
I am not a reader of most Hobbit stuff - forgive me - it's just not my cup of tea - but I noted in the summary something about Gondor and decided to press my luck. I am now sitting here with tear-filled eyes. This was truly beautiful. Thank you for sharing it. I shall find a boat somehow next Yule and a river that is not frozen, at least one in my mind, and send a boat with my wishes. Again, many thanks for a beautiful, touching piece.
Author's reply
Thank you (for the third time!) *g* It was suggested to me that I bring out the younglings' wading pool and let them set their lit boats afloat in that since the river was to dangerous to go near... I still choke up when I think about how a simple heartfelt tradition that Boromir was doing to make him feel less far from home eventually becomes something that generations of Hobbits (at least the Tooks and Brandybucks!) carry on through the years... We all want to feel that we make a difference in someone's life. Being the source of a new hobbit tradition is another way that Boromir made a difference in the lives of Merry and Pippin.
Fiondil · 21 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Hi Rhyselle, welcome to SoA. I'm glad to see your stories here. I've read all three stories but have decided to leave this one review, as I see them as interconnected pieces. Your writing is very beautiful and poignant. You capture Boromir and Faramir and the hobbits very clearly and I liked how you give us a glimpse of Denethor in a good mood for a change *grin*. I look forward to seeing more of your work here soon.
Author's reply
I'm so glad that you liked them! They are interconnected, although they were originally written separately over the course of three weeks in December '06, with "A Wish" inspired by a comment I received on "Mettare" on FFN, and then "Yule" came to my head as I mentioned in the closing author's note. I am working on a multi-chapter Faramir AU fic that I am holding off submitting until I have it completed (three or four chapters to go, depending on my muse), and I got bit by a plot-Nazgul yesterday for a story of the Elendili departing Numenor for which I need to do some re-reading of the Silmarillion and some of the other Legendarium before I get started on it. But they'll be up eventually. Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my work. I do really appreciate it.
Larner · 21 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Well, welcome here to SOA. I reviewed this there on FFN, and am glad to see it shared here as well. A lovely idea, and very similar to the idea of memorial boats sent out on the Hobbit day of memories as Lindelea has pictured it, and the wish boats sent out on the eve of marriages as described in Lindethuvial's story of Eomer courting Eowyn.
Larner · 21 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
Well, welcome here to SOA. I reviewed this there on FFN, and am glad to see it shared here as well. A lovely idea, and very similar to the idea of memorial boats sent out on the Hobbit day of memories as Lindelea has pictured it, and the wish boats sent out on the eve of marriages as described in Lindethuvial's story of Eomer courting Eowyn.
Author's reply
I have not read either of those authors yet, but will look for them ASAP. :) My family wanted to actually do this, as we live by the Stillwater River but at the Solstice and the New Year, the river was in flood stage from torrential rains and snowmelt and we didn't dare approach it then. We are still hoping to send out belated wishes downstream when the river is once more safe to wade in. :) Thank you for reading and reviewing!
Dreamflower · 21 February 2007 · Chapter 0: Yule
How lovely to think that the Gondorian tradition is now followed in the Shire! And some day, a former Thain and Master will be in Gondor once more, to follow this same tradition! These were all lovely little stories, and I am so glad you are now numbered among the writers here.
Author's reply
Thank you! :) I am thinking about writing about that... Merry and Pippin's final Mettare in Gondor with Aragorn and Arwen... Down, plot-Nazgul! Down! LOL!