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| Truth by Lindelea | 2 Review(s) |
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| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 2/8/2013 |
| Isn't it sad that the Hobbits have a caste system too. Farry and Goldi should be allowed to marry. She's such a good person. Author Reply: I find such social distinctions both sad and confusing. However, they were a part of Tolkien's world, and he wrote them into Middle-earth as he saw it. Thus, though I don't support the idea of class differences, I have tried to make the best of them in Shire-folk as I've imagined them. Especially since the idea of upper-class Hobbits oppressing the lower classes seems unhobbity to me, I've come to emphasize the weight of tradition ("the way things have always been") and how it can hold us captive even when we can see that there's a better way. I agree, Goldi is a very good person. Her mum and dad set her a good example, I think. Belated thanks for your comments! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 8/28/2003 |
| Oh, I love Goldi-Mouldi and Harry-Farry! All by itself this sums up easy familiarity of long acquaintance and affectionate acceptance. But this is a time of life when old relationships get re-evaluated, and of necessity change into one thing or another entirely. Goldi and Farry have just started the questioning, and anything could happen. And here we have evidence of another conspiracy. Either Sam or Pip could have started it, but it's likely they both have their fingers into the stopping of mail. Did they really think they could get away with something like this without being caught? Were they actually naive enough to think if their kids didn't write for a summer they would just forget each other? Didn't they know the surest way to drive two people together is to try to keep them apart? Today they're both being thick! I also liked Goldi's sense of responsibility when she thought Farry had slipped his escort. After all, it's a Tookish thing to do! But I wonder about Tolly here. Did he not suspect Goldi would be in the vicinity of Bag End, and did he not think Faramir might go looking for her? Will he be in trouble for allowing the meeting, and a chance for the secret to come out, or does he have an inner sympathy for the yougsters? He doesn't say much, so it's hard to tell. Another brilliant appearance by Ferdi. He's heightened his senses of hearing to make up for the lack of seeing, and now he's not only Pip's memory, he's his lie detector as well. He's not sensitive to the unknowing offhand remark from Linden about blindness, but he catches a little at the sentence of shunning, even for only two months. The memory of old hurts is more damaging than his current disability. I bet the lie-detector mode comes in handy when questioning children about pranks - perhaps that will come into play here? Is it true this story is only to be nine chapters long? I feel cheated, somehow! Author Reply: Ah, Tolly. He doesn't say much (he wasn't born with a silver tongue like his younger brother and some of his cousins), and he knows a lot more than he admits to. Still, I'm not sure he was thinking about Farry encountering Goldi; his mind was probably fixed on the business at hand. He's quite straightforward, and he's good at what he does, which so often involves focus and concentration. That said, I don't think he'd be good at multitasking. The story grew in the telling, as things turned out... They do that sometimes. Even though I work off an outline (so I know how things come out), there are times when the Muse taps me on the shoulder and murmurs, "Er, I was meaning to tell you about this little side-trail that's really rather intrinsic to making the plot work... And I already put in several elements while working on the earlier chapters relating to that particular side-trail that I'm only now clueing you in on..." Sometimes the subconscious works in mysterious ways. (Thanks!) | |