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| The Rescue by Lindelea | 1 Review(s) |
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| Leithian | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 3/25/2025 |
| Oh no. Seems that Ferdi's luck has ran out. But I have faith in Estella. Author Reply: You know what they say about the Luck of the Tooks! Or, if you don't, it's based on my contemplation of a little snippet of tradition a German friend shared with me. She described the German equivalent of "crossing my fingers for you" as "holding my thumbs for you" and went on to explain the built-in paradox: if you hold only one thumb, you get only half the luck, but if you hold both thumbs, they cancel each other out in terms of increasing someone's luck. With "holding your thumbs", there doesn't seem to be any situation where you can have *all* the luck! In a similar vein, so far as logic and balancing out various levels of luck, Tookish luck is either spectacularly good, or else it's spectacularly bad. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Estella has the same capacity for courage and grit and stubbornness and determination and loyalty as her Traveller cousins (and a certain gardener who is travelling with them). So I think your faith is placed on the right hobbit here! Thanks for reading and taking the time to post a review. I definitely appreciate it. | |