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| And Where Are the Children? by Larner | 1 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 5/27/2025 |
| Intriguing, and I love the many layers you weave into your narratives. Like Lodo originally being from Bree but falling in love on a business trip. But the family story is so sad! Wife died in childbirth... Lockholes... wife's mother ill... farm burned, children disappeared. Hmm. Grandma might have something to do with that. (And now I have this mental image of Granny carrying a tiny baby in a front pack while commanding a rebel force made up of urchins – I think my brain may be mixing together The Beverly Hillbillies with Oliver!). I wonder. And poor Frodo is showing deep distress at hearing the story. And if Lodo's gone back to Bree, how will he ever be reunited with his children? Hmmm. A new path, recently travelled. I wonder if it's a vital clue? (How I love intelligent, protective Strider!) Hello, Berilac! Nice to see you helping out! In retrospect, anyhow. I wonder if the missing boards might have served as building materials for a shelter? And I think I understand the description to indicate that smaller tools (child-sized?) were taken, but larger tools (adult hobbit and man-sized) were left behind? But what could have frightened those poor horses and ponies to the extent that they came a cropper? I hope they weren't badly hurt or killed! How interesting that the Wood did not seem to suffer the same destruction as other areas of the Shire... Author Reply: You might look for my story "Guarding from Afar" to learn the history of why the woods were spared. Although you will find out more as this story progresses! Heh! Yes, I, too, love the idea that Frodo learned some tracking skills from out beloved Aragorn! (I'm still in love with him after over sixty years. Does it show?) | |