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| And Where Are the Children? by Larner | 1 Review(s) |
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| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 7/19/2025 |
| I’ve found my second collection of stories not focused on Frodo Baggins has also been removed, so will need to re-find it and the short stories it held. I do hope you can restore what was lost. (What is wrong with people? Why do some use their creativity to damage or destroy the creations of others? Hackers frustrate me immensely.) ...thought to do a mystery story with Frodo as the detective, using the skills taught and honed by Bilbo and Aragorn augmented by his own keen powers of observation, to find the truth... Fanfiction has been such a learning experience for me! Tolkien's sandbox has been a wonderful place to play and learn. Frodo as a detective sounds very plausible to me. I think any of the Fab Four might make an interesting detective, actually, each in his own way. ...stops short of a murder mystery... I'm fine with that. I find my taste at the moment runs to lighter fare, probably because the RL world is rather difficult to deal with (crazy and stressful) at the moment. (Not my world, that is, but the outer world. I rather envy Shire-folk living in the first half of the Fourth Age, actually.) My vision of Saruman's long-range plans for the Shire may be somewhat darker than yours, as hinted at in The Farmer's Son, though I don't know if that part has been published yet since I'm working on other WIPs at the moment and haven't reacquainted myself with that story in a while. I was proud to find this family found an injured Man and took him in, helping him heal and find a place with them, finding redemption and the respect of Frodo Baggins. I loved this idea! It seems very hobbity to me. I found the "haints" intriguing and very original, yet the idea seemed to fit with Tolkien's vision. I wasn't jarred by the difference in names once I figured out it was the same forest, LOL! I do something similar in some of my stories, like when some of my hobbits refer to Waymeet as Waymoot (as if it's an older version of the name or perhaps reflects a clannish dialect) or to Tuckborough as Tuckboro or Tuckburrow. You might look for my story "Guarding from Afar" to learn the history of why the woods were spared. I will look for it... maybe tomorrow. My eyes are used up for today, so I must reluctantly set fanfic and reviews and review replies aside for now and hope tomorrow will be better. Haven't read the Bolham story--will have to find it once I'm up to date on those stories in the newer section. I'm not sure where I first mention Bolham – it might be in Where the Love-light Gleams. I do know that after I wrote the Bolham story (Family Matters, which I just finished posting at the end of June), I had to go back and adjust that older mention to bring it in line with the later story. The newer story was only half-written when the hacker deleted it last January, which for some reason helped motivate me to repost the already-published (but deleted) chapters and then finish that particular WIP. Aargh. Hackers. May the Light shine on them so brightly that they repent of their past deeds and change their ways going into the future. Author Reply: Am reading Jewels right now as I have time. Then will seek out the other tales. As for hackers. they have certainly wrought damage here! | |