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| Light from the West by Armariel | 3 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/11/2006 |
| Frodo is right, really. The Shire might have taken on heavenly overtones in his memory - but he has moved on and this is now his home. If he was able to go back, it wouldn't be long before he was hankering after Tol Eressea. Good that he sees that. His communication with Sam ... probably a comfort, I would think. A warm and fuzzy feeling for Sam - and the knowledge that Frodo is all right. Such reassurance will help him get on with his own life. Author Reply: Oh yes...there's a saying, a Jewish one I think: "When a man marries, he divorces his mother." So it is with Frodo--Tol Eressea is his "bride" and the Shire is his "mother"...and to go back to his "mother" would be unthinkable, even though he will always remember her lovingly. Yes, an immense comfort--I have a "Sam" in a distant country also, so I KNOW how that goes. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't communicate with her via the internet. And I know she feels the same! ~~~{~@ | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/9/2006 |
| And what a thing to feel guilty for? Yet it is a valid question, and one Frodo needed to answer for himself. And, of course, a child asked it, the question he needed to answer. Author Reply: I guess Frodo's got a Catholic conscience? heheh I'm Protestant, but have Catholic friends and they joke from time to time about guilt, and my one-time roommate was raised Catholic but has less of a sense of humor about the guilt part. I dare say the child was getting a bit worried about whether he would go back if someday he just might be allowed. Imaginative kids do have such anxieties a lot, and it got me to thinking, well, WOULD he go back? It was really something to think about. If he were fully healed in body and mind, and were given the choice of going back, would he take it? Or would he stay in Paradise, where he is beloved and appreciated by all, and has spiritual and educational opportunities unavailable to him where he come from? I could hardly decide. Yet the answer he gives is the one that rings true to me, somehow. Not exactly sure why! ~~~{~@ | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 5/7/2006 |
| I love this about the dolls looking reproachful and guilty. Very good letter overall. I know Frodo will get his sign and it will be a very enthusiastic yes - Sam would never want to lessen his Frodo's joy and I'm sure he has the same joy that he can still be with his dear one - but still I wait nervously. You are getting me more intrigued all the time about reading Bear Me Away, now with the mention of 'my new found faith' - I assume you go into more detail on all this in the story? I've been avoiding it up to this point because I don't like anything racy and I believe Frodo died a virgin. Sorry I didn't sign last post. I am very glad that the Spirit of Frodo is using you as a secretary too! :) Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Why, thank you! Bless you, "Bear Me Away" isn't a bit racy--there are one or two mildly naughty remarks in it, and Frodo mentions an erotic dream or two (non-explicit), but there's no sex and no violence and only a couple of mild swear-words (not from Frodo). I think you'd find "Bear Me Away" enjoyable, if you like this piece here; it's alternately serious and humorous, and really ought to be read first. The faith he finds in it I haven't really gone into as much as I would have liked, and may deal more fully with it later in "Light from the West". I don't actually think of him as being a virgin when he arrives in the West, actually, although I haven't gone into that at all and don't intend to. But I don't like to think of him as some impossibly ethereal and asexual saintly being as so many authors seem to. I'd rather keep him completely human, maybe even provide him with a bride...*ahem* But anyway, if nothing else, read the first chapter. It was originally a stand-alone story that I decided to expand into a full-length long-short (I don't know if it's really long enough to be called a novella, lol) and tell me what you think. Thanks so much for your comments! hugs Armariel~~~{~@ | |