Stories of Arda Home Page
About Us News Resources Login Become a member Help Search

Healing the Long Cleeve  by TopazTook 2 Review(s)
DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 26 on 2/20/2006
So sad, so melancholy, yet the way of life. I loved Pippin's comforting of Merry--that was incredibly beautiful.

And poor Pippin, to lose both his parents so very quickly. It had to be incredibly hard; yet from what we know of hobbit marriages, it is not surprising.

I am a wee bit puzzled at the timeline, but perhaps I'm misremembering the dates on the Family Tree. Wouldn't be the first time I've done that.

Author Reply: Thank you for saying this chapter was beautiful and melancholy. As life cycles round, this is the way of things.

I was a bit “rough” on Pippin in this chapter, with Eglantine passing away so soon after Paladin, but this was the way I figured out my interpretation of what it means when it says “Peregrin becomes the Took *and* the Thain” in 1434 in the Appendices.

As for the timeline, this chapter is a bit unlike some of the other, more slower-paced ones in this story in that we zip through two years passing between the time the scene with Merry at the river occurs in 1432, and then Pippin’s 44th birthday, in 1434, when Paladin tells him he’s going to hand over the office of the Thain. (The events in this chapter from that point onward take place in 1434.)

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 26 on 8/12/2005
Excellent ending, and that Duro has learned his rightful duties and consideration toward his wife. Funny he should have had to be taught them by the wise fool of a Took.

Thanks for a wonderful read.

Author Reply: Glad you’ve enjoyed so far but, umm, this isn’t quite the end. There’s still one more chapter, plus author’s notes, to go. Just been a really annoyingly irritatingly frustratingly busy time of RL: not enough time to finish fanfic. Grr.

Glad you also see some of a change in Duro. I think Pip thinks he’s more of a fool than others do -- with the exception of a certain wizard, of course.

Return to Chapter List