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| One Who Sticks Closer than a Brother by Lindelea | 5 Review(s) |
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| Lady Forlong | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 3/14/2025 |
| Makes perfect sense that the hobbit version of Heaven would be a Feast ;) Author Reply: ;) back at you! In all I've read of JRRT's works, I've never found what happens to Hobbits after they die. When I gave it some thought, a feast made perfect sense to me, along with the idea that there's no time There (so hobbits who've died and are waiting to be reunited with loved ones aren't lonely for those they love) and that everything they ever lost is restored to them when they arrive. The idea first appeared in "Flames" (if I'm remembering right; so many stories spun themselves over more than two decades, sometimes I forget details) and grew from there, appearing in later stories. In fact, Pippin discusses the idea in a chapter of "All that Glisters", the story you asked about in your other recent review! I recently wrote my most detailed description of the Feast in a short story while looking for comfort after our last dog died – almost exactly a year ago. (The last one we've had, I mean. I'd love to adopt another dog, but I don't know if it will happen. Meanwhile, I'm spoiling our three cats thoroughly.) It's dedicated to lost pets, but it's also a hopeful vision of being reunited with lost loved ones, as well. Here's a link, if you're interested: http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3065&cid=42425 | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/14/2007 |
| Useful for this man to have a foster sonship to call upon eh? *grin* Still loving the Lindelea. Author Reply: Very useful! (Hope I'm not stretching credulity to its breaking point, to where this would have to be labelled "AU"!) | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/13/2007 |
| What a wonderfully brave pair of little boys! Will we ever really know Tod and Teddy's ultimate fates? And Elessar has a stubborn Took on his hands. As stubborn as the Took, Brandybuck, Baggins and Gamgee he's dealt with before? Maybe so. Author Reply: Hmm. Their fates? Well, there just might be something to that. It would be a shame if they ended up decorating trees outside the Bounds of the Shire in future years. I do think Tolly is quite stubborn, though perhaps a notch below Ferdi and two notches below Pippin. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/13/2007 |
| Remember--Aragorn is a 63 or 64 times great NEPHEW of Elrond's! Dreamflower can tell you--she worked it out, IIRC. Heh! Yes, Elvish blood in them-there Dunedain! (Which is why I've taken delight in ascribing Aragorn's scruffiness in the movies to a beard that grows painfully s-l-o-w-l-y. Author Reply: Yes, I knew he was great-great-great-something nephew of Elrond's, though I never took the time to work out the generations. Dreamflower is amazing. LOL--I always thought it made an effective disguise. Do you suppose Elrond took him in hand and taught him how to look as disreputable as possible so that enemy agents hunting for him would never target *him* as a prospective King? | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/13/2007 |
| Oh, I am so proud of the boys and Tolly, and glad Aragorn's there now! Author Reply: I'm glad he's there, too, for both Tolly's and Pippin's sake! (And Meadowsweet's, and Tolly's brothers, and his children...) | |