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| Drabbles by Lindelea | 234 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 4/7/2025 |
| Lovely! In my-verse Bilbo remains but a few years on Tol Eressea, but it's wonderful to think he might have lingered to see Sam come to be reunited with Frodo. Author Reply: Someone told me in a long-ago discussion of Frodo's sailing to the West that in the land where the Ring-bearers lived for a time before going on, they were given the grace of laying down their lives at will. Sort of like Elessar's ability to choose his time? I think they were quoting from a letter Tolkien wrote, but it is just a dim memory to me now. (And so I took the liberty of Frodo being able to interact with his cousins in dreams during times of great distress, perhaps with a little Istari or FirstBorn help... I tried not to do it too often, of course. It had to be a very special occasion, like helping Merry solve the famine problem when the leaders of the Shire were all at a loss, or guiding Faramir back to his body when he'd "wandered too soon".) Sort of like the idea that tweens are always eating, and they eat so much, they put a strain on their family's larder, and so families encourage their tweens to walk about the Shire and visit relatives. But I haven't been able to find that information anywhere since returning to fanfic. I was sure it came from Tolkien himself, maybe one of his letters (because I haven't been able to find any mention of it in LOTR), but then, again, I could be remembering wrong and it was actually something I read in a fanfic. Thanks! Looking forward to seeing you! Author Reply: Anyhow, in that discussion of when Bilbo died, I think part of the discussion was whether Bilbo would choose to hang around until Sam sailed so that Frodo wouldn't be the only hobbit there. In Small and Passing Thing, I think I envisioned Bilbo having left only a short time before Sam arrived. (Since I don't think he appears in the final chapter of that story, that's probably what I was thinking.) Sadly, I've lost many of the notes I had from writing those early stories – everything before 2010, sadly, although I managed to recover some notes, including beta-readers' comments, from WIPs like Thain and Jewels. But at least the Muse is still speaking to me these days and deigning to keep track of plot threads. For the most part. She's grown very rambling with the passing of the years. Rather like me, actually. I seem to ramble a little more every day. I can think of worse things, though. | |
| Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 3/20/2025 | |
| Thank you Author Reply: You're welcome! Thank you for the suggestion! | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 13 on 3/19/2025 |
| I love your description in here- indeed Rosie is glad her love has returned. Author Reply: Thank you! It amazed me when I realized that Rosie knew Sam was coming home months before he actually arrived! She told him she'd been expecting him since the spring! (I chose to believe that somehow she was aware of the destruction of the Ring, even so many leagues away.) | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 12 on 3/19/2025 |
| These are so sweet. I especially love how Rosie thought of Sam. :*) Author Reply: Thank you! The Professor showed us such a tiny glimpse of Rosie, and yet she was such a strong character, she almost jumped off the page and into my heart. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 3/19/2025 |
| Poor Eowyn. Author Reply: She was so hopeless at this point. I am so glad that the Professor didn't give her the glorious death in battle she craved but something much better – Faramir and his love! | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 3/19/2025 |
| When i first read that in the books, it was such a climatic moment. Love your take on it. Author Reply: Thank you! It's a little muddled, but then so was Frodo's head when the Ring finally compelled him to claim It for his own. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 3/19/2025 |
| Such a terrible moment for Beregond- but it was for the loyalty for Faramir! Author Reply: Exactly! He knew when he left his post, that he'd traded his life for Faramir's. (As my hobbits like to say, "Anything worth doing is worth doing thoroughly.") But it's not just that. Beregond is the character who dragged me into fanfic-writing in the first place. I wish the Professor had written more about him! (Not only his fierce, desperate loyalty to Faramir here, but his warm welcome and animated conversation with Pippin also won my heart.) | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/19/2025 |
| wow nice contrast to the last drabble where now Merry holds vigil for Pippin. Nicely done. Author Reply: Thank you! This drabble and the one before were actually a matched set (the titles are taken from a lullaby my mom used to sing), but I hadn't figured out about publishing sets of drabbles at the point these were posted. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/19/2025 |
| aww that last line really hit my heart. <3 How terrible it was for Pippin to see Merry suffer from the Black Breath. Author Reply: My heart is in my throat whenever I read scenes where one cousin is watching over the other, like here, in the Houses of Healing. How awful it must have been for Pippin before Aragorn entered the City. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/19/2025 |
| Dear young hobbits- love Merry and Pippin interactions. Author Reply: Oh, I do too! I love to stumble across fanfics that show the Travellers as children.. | |