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| A Took by Any Other Name by Lindelea | 179 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 4/6/2025 |
| I see there’s been a big time jump from the previous chapter - I guess it’s time for the Young Thain stories to begin! I’m glad things seemed to have worked out well, poor Pippin really went through the wringer in this one. But all ended well - except for poor Merimac, and even his death was so bad truly. Thx for sharing your stories - catch you in the next one! Author Reply: Thanks for letting me know you read this one! I've been answering reviews, but I'll have to stop after this reply (at least until tomorrow). The cats are insisting it's bedtime. In case you'd like another dose of the Young Thain, the final chapter of "The Rescue" (also an epilogue) is also set during Pippin's early days as Thain. It's good to hear you're enjoying the stories! | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 4/6/2025 |
| Well, huh - this was an interesting and unexpected and sad and happy chapter… Author Reply: Definitely unexpected. I had actually written myself into a corner with this one, for my original solution didn't look like it was going to work. And then one day, while idly perusing the family trees, the solution jumped out at me, simple, elegant, and (sigh) sad. Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to share your thoughts! | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 1/9/2016 |
| Wow, lots going on here! But all seems to be looking up in the end.... Thanks for writing! Author Reply: Belated thanks for taking the time to write this review! | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 11/20/2015 |
| Oh Merimac! Oh Ferdi! Author Reply: Oh I know! It made me very sad to write this goodbye – and to realise what it would mean for Ferdi. Belated thanks for stopping to leave a review. | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 11/20/2015 |
| But Pip never found out... what happened!? Author Reply: What happened will become clear in a later chapter. Belated thanks for reading and pausing long enough to share your thoughts! | |
| Eirinn Leigh | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 11/20/2015 |
| Out of all the horrors and pains in this chapter it hurt the most to think of Ferdi - not riding off to route goblins or preparing to drag Pip home to face the music as Pip would have it - but wandering through life in near silence, too took-stubborn to leave and too took-loyal to rebel against his sentence in any but the most minor of ways. Author Reply: I just saw this, years after you wrote it. Thank you so much for your encouragement, and stopping to leave your thoughts. Author Reply: And p.s., you have exactly described my feelings in the matter. | |
| Imhiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 12/5/2006 |
| The parallels between Pippin's present situation and his recollections are truly eerie, as is the way he later confuses and mixes both. And well presented, here and in the previous chapter. Author Reply: Why, hello! Here is another review I don't remember seeing in my e-mail. I just chanced upon it now. Thanks for leaving your impressions. | |
| Imhiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 12/5/2006 |
| Knowing what was to come, Merimac's return and every gesture and every word had so much poignancy! I loved the scene with Paladin and Eglantine at night: little scenes like this always are so moving, because they show that for all the bad Paladin does, there is still the love for his wife, and the memories of earlier times, when he was the warm and loving father. Which makes it all that much harder to read in contrast. but then Paladin was always one to acknowledge hard truths, as long as he wasn’t looking into his own faults. *snort* Too true, too true... Author Reply: I can't believe I missed some of your reviews! And so, I offer belated thanks for your taking the time to write out your thoughts and send them along. I hate character deaths and avoid them wherever possible. Unfortunately, I ran up against a hard stop in the case of Merimac if I didn't want to make this story AU. Ah, well, perhaps I can find more stories to write about him if I choose a point earlier on the timeline. | |
| Imhiriel | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 12/5/2006 |
| "...tradition is, when one under the Ban falls seriously ill, sentence is lifted, but there’s been nothing of the sort in this case." "Came here to see the lad, out of his head with fever, and left without saying a word. Woodruff as head healer is the only one who’ll openly defy the hobbit..." If Woodruff were not so brave as to defy Paladin, what do you think would happen/would have happened? Would Paladin really risk endangering Ferdi's life for the sake of his foolish, wrong-headed, despotic, tyrannical, heartless etc. pride? (Sorry, but this just makes me so angry everytime I read it...) Author Reply: I think, perhaps, that if someone had not taken Ferdi up when he collapsed, if Woodruff had not defied Paladin, that Eglantine would have dragged Paladin by his ear to where Ferdi lay, in the corridor, and the shock of how far things had gone would have brought him to his senses. So the irony is that Ferdi's Ban would have been over four years sooner, if nobody had done anything to help him at a time when he couldn't help himself. Either that, or Eglantine would have had Woodruff declare her husband mad and unfit to be Thain (wonder why they didn't do that anyhow?) and then she, as head of the family after Paladin's removal, would have reversed the Ban. But it would have been an irreversible act, for Paladin, and so she never quite got up the nerve to do so. Perhaps she never stopped hoping Pippin would return soon, or perhaps that her constant chipping away at Paladin would bear fruit and her husband would have a change of heart. It was heartening to read this review, almost like having a new review, though you wrote it some time ago. I don't know if I'm making sense today. Am groggy from a headache. But belated thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. | |
| Dana | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 4/24/2005 |
| Oh. Oh, but this was an incredible ending. Author Reply: So glad you made it all the way through! And glad to have your note, as well. *h7gs* | |