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He Died With His Boots On  by Lindelea 13 Review(s)
LeithianReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 2/22/2025
Lindelea!

I'm reading through your older stories now and this one is so funny and relatable. But the biggest question is: how did they get their boots on in the first place?
Cheers

Author Reply: I'm so glad you enjoyed this rather outlandish story! Hmmm... how did they get those boots on in the first place? Could it be payback for some earlier prank, perhaps? Though I can see Frodo persuading Sam to help him, those two were probably well oiled by the end of the celebration, just like the younger cousins.

So... Aragorn? One of Pippin's fellow guardsmen? A Rider of Rohan and a Citadel Guardsman working together? A certain Wizard?

...so much scope for the imagination...

PSWReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 2/11/2025
🤣 This was hysterical. Poor confused drunk/hung-over Hobbits….

Author Reply: It was lots of fun to imagine! (Thanks!)

cathleenReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 4/23/2009
Oh, Lindelea, how funny! Thank you for a good laugh! I am so enjoying Shirebound's fic recs from the past!

Author Reply: I'm so glad you enjoyed the story! Shirebound is a treasure in more ways than one...

Nienor NinielReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 8/28/2006
Where did those boots come from? I wonder...

And I wonder even more about this:

No hobbit in the history of the Shire has ever died with boots on,’ Merry said. It wasn’t strictly true, but Pippin didn’t need to know that.

Who may this have been?

Really nice idea! Poor Pippin, he really can't know how wearing boots is like, and in his state...

Enjoyable! Nienor

Author Reply: Don't know who it may have been, but I'm sure there's a story behind it!

Thanks!

...who can scarcely type for laughing!Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 5/18/2006
*giggling hysterically* Oh, oh, poor Hobbits! Dying, indeed! No, not dying, just more drunk than anybody has a right to be! Too cute!
God bless,
Galadriel

Author Reply: Goodness, yet another review that missed my mailbox! What *is* it with AOL?

Thanks!

LarnerReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 5/27/2005
Drunken folk of any race seem to be so much alike. Melodrama, repetition....

Poor Merry. Now, how on earth did the two of them end up wearing boots?

Author Reply: Don't know why there are no review replies on this story. Did the author miss the reviews, did the author's email go wonky, or is the author simply rude?

(The author is tired and needs to go to bed, actually, and is becoming somewhat punchy.)

G'night!

Grey WondererReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 4/15/2005
Needed a laugh tonight and went in search of it and came across this story! I had read it before, but I never tire of this one. Way too funny!

Author Reply: Very belated thanks! Was looking through some stories, avoiding what I really ought to be doing, and noticed I was remiss in replying to reviews.

Hope this finds you well. Have finally got to your stories on my want-to-read list, hoorah!

Hobbit Lily BagginsReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 5/12/2004
That was hilarious! A perfect start in a new day!

Author Reply: Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

HaiReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 5/11/2004
That was certianly worth a few laughs! I want to know whose boots they were wearing and there is certainly a story behind how they got on hobbit feet in the first place! It was delightful! I like how Pippin thought he was dying and then that Merry was! His poor drunken mind couldn't take it all! Thank you!

Author Reply: So much scope for the imagination... Frodo? A guardsman? A Rider of Rohan conspiring together with a Citadel Guard? A certain Wizard? A King, maybe even?

(LOL)

Kit5Reviewed Chapter: Prologue on 5/11/2004
LOL, that was cute.

Author Reply: Thank you!

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