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| Jewels by Lindelea | 295 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 32 on 8/28/2025 |
| And which is it with eyes in her heart? I suspect it is Estella, when the truth is told. For she is for Buckland, and she knows it! ! Author Reply: Ah, Estella. Her heart has been Merry's since their childhood, even though he never knew until much later. Estella is incredibly observant, down to the minutest detail, which seems quite fitting for an artist of her calibre. Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 31 on 8/28/2025 |
| A bad business indeed. At least the folks of Long Cleave know it's not Pippin's own doing. Now--to see Pip inspired to defy his father properly! Author Reply: It was such a relief to make sure the north-Tooks learned the truth of the matter. Whew. Unfortunately, some dynamics of the situation make defiance much more difficult. However, sometimes other defenders will step up when the champion is struck down... Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 30 on 8/28/2025 |
| Maybe a gift from Lord Irmo might be in order.... I rejoice that Jewel and Socks are doing well with Merry's attentions. Author Reply: What an interesting thought! I have to admit, I've paid much less attention to the Valar than I have to hobbits... Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to share your thoughts. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 29 on 8/28/2025 |
| Pippin and Estella Bolger? I think not! Silly old Thain! Author Reply: Silly old Thain. I think the arrangement started out as a favor to Odo (who had to find a Took for his daughter to marry per Bolger family tradition) long before Paladin became Thain, with the stipulation that either party could dissolve the agreement, but when Paladin was saddled with the Thainship and no resources, the fortune that Estella would bring with her proved too tempting. Not that Paladin was greedy... just grimly desperate, more or less. Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 8/28/2025 |
| My grandmother could be like that. It brought her more misery in the end than it did to anyone else--save for my mother. Author Reply: The world might be a better place if people would just focus on doing their best – their *own* best, that is – and not trying to live someone else's life for them. Sigh. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 27 on 8/27/2025 |
| Such humor may do more harm than good, but at least it was recognized in time. At least the poppy is helping--this time. Author Reply: These were some difficult chapters to get through. Whew. For my own part, I hate "humor" that cuts other people down. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 26 on 8/27/2025 |
| Such illness is terrible to see. If only he can fight it--while those who love him sit in terrible anticipation while struggling to help him stay in this life. Now--the Thain! May he arrive to find his son rallying at last. Author Reply: Even today, with all the medical marvels we have available, such illness is still a terrible thing. In retrospect, I would have loved to see the Thain arrive and pour his strength into Pippin, helping him rally... but then a lot of the conflict would be gone from the plot. I suppose this would have been a much shorter story if that had been the case. Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 8/23/2025 |
| The start of pneumonia? He's known enough distress for it to start. Now--if a memory of Frodo will hearten him so he can hearten Merry when that day comes. Bless him for his care for Socks. Author Reply: Yes, when I was writing Jewels and posting it at HASA all those years ago, there were some wonderfully supportive people at the archive. I connected there with a medical worker who advised me on symptoms as well as treatments that would have been available under the Shire's level of medical knowledge and application. In fact, Lyllyn warned me (after reading some draft chapters) that the symptoms I had described implied permanent lung damage and disability! Because of my fixation with plausibility, I was faced with rewriting those chapters. (Horrors!) I sat with that feedback for a few days, and then I came up with the timeline and character development arc, culminating in Sam consulting with Treebeard and returning with some specially-brewed Ent draught to address Pippin's problems. Thus, my habitual avoidance of rewriting resulted in a wider scope for the imagination! (Probably not the first time a vice or failing led to a positive result, but certainly the most memorable.) Thanks! (p.s. I hope this reply makes sense. I am very distracted. Squeak is repeatedly cruising by my legs and head-bumping me vigorously each time she passes. I must close the laptop now and top off the cat dishes, I think, before she gets hungry enough to take a bite out of me.) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 8/23/2025 |
| The anniversaries still happen, but as Pip noted, Merry is growing stronger as the memories become more bearable. I love the portrait so! Wish I had it here. Author Reply: I can clearly see the portrait in my mind's eye. Would that I could draw or paint what I can see! (But I have resigned myself to making pictures with words. Such is life.) I'd love to have all the pictures that I describe Estella sketching or painting scattered around my house. Merry is growing stronger; part of it is due to his exercising his "walk in the Light" muscles (in a manner of speaking). As long as he remains mindful of the need to walk in the Light and disciplines himself to practise that mindset consistently, he can keep up the good fight. (But they're making a mistake in these early years by keeping the observance private. It works better in later years when more loved ones are included.) Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 8/23/2025 |
| No, but he won't ever be but a tramp. A lovely ceremony of rememberence. Author Reply: I can't see Pippin wasting his life, not after what he went through on the Quest. This chapter may well be the origin of Remembering Day in my version of the Shire. Thanks for your encouraging words. | |