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Jewels  by Lindelea 1 Review(s)
Reviewed Chapter: 50 on 6/2/2025
Did you read Yew by Pearl Took? Do you have any ideas for it? Are you going to write the drabble, actually, a story, that I asked about?

I love how Sam and Merry and Estella and Diamond all trick Pippin in going to Gondor. Poor Pippin is left delightfully confounded! He never stood a chance against all of them banded together!

In the story "All that Glisters", in chapter 53, Hilly says, "And you know what they say about Brandybucks!"

I've been wondering and wondering. What do they say about Brandybucks? I keep on reading that phrase and I still can't figure out what they say about Brandybucks.

Author Reply: I did! I even saw from the reviews that I started reading the story years ago (before the need to go back to the workplace pulled me away from fanfic), and I revisited it after your earlier request. It is a clever, creative story! That said, no ideas have arisen in my brain for a related story, at least not yet. Sometimes the ideas flow, and sometimes they refuse to budge. (For example, it took me about 15 years to come up with the epilogue to Pearl of Great Price after a reader asked me if there might be any way to save Lop the sheepdog instead of him dying to save Pippin's life. And though I asked Marigold many times for a story prompt for one of her challenges in the old days, not all of them resulted in a story, much as I wished to come up with something.) I will keep your request in mind, but I cannot make any promises.

Hobbit conspiracies can be very effective!

The joke about the Brandybucks is one of those things that is so old and so generally well-known in the Shire as to go without saying (and so rude, apparently, that people don't say it in polite company) that many of the people who bring up the "old saying" have actually forgotten what it is. Sort of like forgetting the punch line to an iconic joke.

Thanks so much for reading and pausing to share your thoughts!

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