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| Pearl of Great Price by Lindelea | 2 Review(s) |
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| Lady Forlong | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 5/25/2025 |
| Nice trick. Isum pretends he's talking to the pony. Oh, I'm so disappointed in Ferumbras. Looked like he was growing a backbone there for a minute but Lalia managed to squelch it again. Author Reply: Isum is both wise and understanding. I like him more the better I get to know him. (Does that statement make sense? It looks odd when I read it over.) Poor Ferumbras. He has his moments, but he never really had the chance to develop any kind of independent spirit over his lifetime of being dominated by Lalia. It's too bad Fortinbras paid more attention to watching over the Tooks than raising his son instead of leaving Ferumbras to Lalia's tender mercies. Thanks for reading and stopping long enough to share your impressions. | |
| Lyta Padfoot | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 1/23/2004 |
| So Lalia's bitterness goes back quite a ways and she is really out to ruin Paladin. Pity she doesn't know that Paladin will follow her son as Thain - that in and of itself seems Paladin's revenge. I hope he has sufficent gold for pay the debt - most crops would have been sold in the fall, right? But then my knowledge of farming is hazy and I don't know exactly what is he growing/raising. Author Reply: Well, I'm thinking spring cash crops... strawberries, wool (goodness, can you imagine shearing lots of sheep without help from hired hobbits?), spring greens. Perhaps the winter barley harvest would be in by then, dunno. Summer wheat and barley (and oats?) come in later, but I was thinking those would carry him through the winter and he depended on his spring crops to pay on the debt. Hope that sounds plausible. | |