Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 70: Pause, and Full Stop
Oh, but the perfect ending!
I see how much stuck in my memory without my realization, to come out years later in my own writing, but with my own emphasis. I focused on Frodo's experiences rather than Fredegar's, and I represented the healers as insisting Freddy NOT regain all his former weight. I see the Hobbit tendency to speak lightly of serious matters reflected so well here, far better than I tend to manage.
Thanks so for sparking my own writing, and for your friendship. It keeps me feeling youthful, as ancient and venerable as I'm growing, being nineteen years older than Frodo was when he left the Shire that last time.
Eglerio, Frodo Baggins! A laity te!
Author's reply
I just now saw this, almost a year later!
(I dunno about that. I think you manage just fine. More than fine, actually.)
You are more than welcome, for all those things, and in return, I must thank you for your friendship and the gift of your writing, so rich and deep and layered and thought-provoking. I'm honored to have played a part in encouraging you to explore your own visions of the Professor's world.
Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 69: Epilogue
Yes, love forever!
Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 68: Farewell Words
So glad this was not AU after all. My, how long it's been since I last read it! And Frodo gets to live, blest by beauty until the end of a life known in Peace.
Author's reply
Technically it's AU, sad to say. After I finished writing this story, I came upon one of JRRT's letters where he explained that Frodo had to sail West NOT because of any physical malady. sigh.
Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 67: Errand of Mercy
The dream was a shock, and no mistake! And Frodo is as safe as he can be, surrounded by many of the High Elves who love him, not to mention Bilbo and Gandalf. Yes, a high sense of relief for Freddy and Budgie. Good enough!
Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 66: Laying Down the Fight
AU, then. And the letter lingers in The Pony.
Larner
· 25 April 2023
· Chapter 65: Of a Birthday Remembrance
Rather fatalistic. Don't blame them for wanting to weep.
Now, is the letter behind Butterbur's mantel clock destined to follow the fate of the last one Gandalf entrusted to the innkee per?
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 64: Into the Darkness
There is time yet, though. The grey ship is not yet sailed.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 63: Breaking the News
Yes, Frodo knows. He was properly named, after all.
Author's reply
He does, and he was, indeed.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 62: Heart-to-Heart Talk
Time to contemplated the Queen's offered gift, then.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 61: Of a Hot Summer's Day
I see where I stole my own heat exhaustion tale from, although I had Frodo there in October for the fall memories first. And my version of Budgie is more skeptical than yours.
Author's reply
I missed that! Which story is this?
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 60: The Very Next Morning
Perhaps he and Melilot will have that interrupted wedding yet.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 59: A Visit to Bag End
Quite the act. Bless both the Hobbjts.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 57: Changes and Plans
Freddy, then.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 58: Nearly the Last Pause
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 57: Changes and Plans
So now is the time for the cousins to add in their own bits. Good, then.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 56: Thoughts of the Future
Yes, the pain returns on the anniversaries, but abides in the shadows always,
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 54: 'A Shadow of Old Troubles'
Oh, yes--the anniversary of Weathertop.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 53: Lease on Life
This is just what Freddy needs just now, I'd say.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 52: 'When the Leaves are Gold'
So, that'a why he came with them. No, they will wait now until Frodo has accepted it is is his time to leave as well.
Love the dinner invitation.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 51: 'No Time Like the Present'
I'm glad my gentiehobbits aren't as predatory as yours in their marital arrangements. My Ferdi and Pimmie were married prior to the Time of Troubles. I hope Nell and Rudi are happy.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 50: Tiny, but not Insignificant Pause
It's still unfathomable le to me that Frodo hid it so well from Sam.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 49: 'As Long as Life Shall Last'
The wedding of the incoming New Age, this. Too bad the King and his Lady weren't there in person.
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 48: Lobelia's Bequest
To see Fredegar Bolger in the place of the son she lost so tragically was w blessing in its own right
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 47: Fighting the Darkness
That jewel the Lady Arwen gave Frodo is getting a workout. And finally--the long-awaited proposal?
Larner
· 23 April 2023
· Chapter 46: While Samwise was Away
The twenty-fifth. Last year it had been a dark day on Mount Doom.