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Flames  by Lindelea 2 Review(s)
Eirinn LeighReviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/19/2015
Is this the story that tells *How* Ferdi came to be afraid of fire? Or is that an earlier one?

Author Reply: That story is told more fully in Pearl of Great Price.

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LarnerReviewed Chapter: 5 on 3/10/2005
Excellent and appropriate punishments.

Author Reply: Thanks! I've been told they are too harsh. Either hobbits would never do anything "bad" enough to be banished from the Shire, or... I don't know. I cannot imagine hobbit prison--if there were gaols or prisons, then why would the ruffians have had to make storeholes into Lockholes? I could see banishment as the hobbit form of "capital punishment", ridding their society of a dangerous element. And it seems as if you'd have to have some sort of permanent marking to keep them from walking back in. (Dreamflower, I think, uses a tattoo as her solution.)

If they had dangerous elements, that is.

Thanks!

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