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Drabbles  by Lindelea 8 Review(s)
AntaneReviewed Chapter: 27 on 8/19/2007
I love it! Ever practical Sam, so wise and loving!

Namarie, God bless, Antane :)

Author Reply: Very much so... down-to-earth and knowing just the right thing (and probably learned over the course of previous pregnancies...) *g*

Thanks!

Queen GaladrielReviewed Chapter: 27 on 2/16/2007
*grins* This is sweet! Only a Hobbit would count that being spoiled. :) I'm the eldest of four, and seeing that all three younger ones are all right, not watching, saying, or doing something they shouldn't when the parents aren't around is a trial. I can't imagine what it would be like with thirteen children or twelve younger siblings!
God bless,
Galadriel

Author Reply: LOL! Well, I figure once they figured out where all the children were coming from, and yet didn't stop, that they must have enjoyed children and looked forward to more!

Thanks!

demeter dReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/19/2006
Sam and Rosie are my favorite fictional couple of all time. After twelve pregnancies Sam must know how to handle an emotional, hormonal wife. Very sweet!

Author Reply: I think Sam is a very practical, down-to-earth fellow. Thanks!

BodkinReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/19/2006
Rugby union needs fifteen. Perhaps they'd better have a few spares ...

So hobbits are superstitious about thirteen, too?

Rosie and Sam are very intrepid. More than ... three or so ... requires a special level of nerve. And a very good memory - or you'd never be able to fit the right name to the right child.

Author Reply: Hmmm. Maybe that's what they were after. After all, with Mum and Dad counted in, Tolman makes fifteen...

We have only three and still have trouble fitting names.

Pearl TookReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/19/2006
Aw! This is sweet :-) But they did just have their "Baker's Dozen". I think you have a plot bunny here . . .

Author Reply: They did, although I'd read that there was for a time a 14th named Lily (or Lilly?) in one of the draft genealogies.

I did write Rosie's pregnancy with Tolman as a "surprise" when both she and Sam thought she was "past it"... Amazing how JRRT set Tolman's birth in the year that Sam, Rose and Elanor travelled to Gondor. I wonder if he had a plot bunny nibbling at his ankles?

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/19/2006
Ah, but they did stop with thirteen, and I doubt Rosie regretted it in the end.

Sweet Sam, to offer such a solution! Heh!

Author Reply: LOL, Sam probably knows that pregnancy hormones make a wife somewhat illogical... (especially after 12!)

harrowcatReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/19/2006
How can 13 children be considered unlucky? But 14's better! *g*

Author Reply: There you go! Putting math to good use.

Grey WondererReviewed Chapter: 27 on 12/18/2006
LOL How many women do you know that would consider being allowed to have 14 children, being spoiled? I loved that line! Rose and Sam are so sweet and so much in love and such wonderful parents. Now this review is almost longer than a drabble!

Author Reply: LOL! One of the wedding toasts I attribute to hobbits is "a dozen children" so perhaps it's not all that uncommon a perception in the Shire! *g*

Thanks!

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