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| Go Out in Joy by Larner | 135 Review(s) |
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| Soledad | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 1/15/2017 |
| I re-read your older stories from time to time and have to admit that this one still makes me cry every time. What a wonderful tale! Here is to hope that one day you'll find the inspiration to continue "The Tenant from Staddle" as well. That was the first of your stories I've come across and is still my personal favourite. As one with several decades-old WIPs myself, I understand what it's like when one's muses abandon a particular plot and how hard it is to get back into the right mindset after all those years, but I'm still hoping... :)) | |
| Szepilona10 | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 11/22/2012 |
| So, before I started reading this, I had totally thought that I had already read it...2 chapters in I realized that I hadn't. (I might have started it before though) Anyway, I enjoyed it thoroughly! I was amused at how Elladan and Elrohir were able to convince Aragorn to break his edict. I could imagine them rolling their eyes and being really exasperated with him. Bartolo's 'forgiveness' (not sure that that's the right word...) of Frodo was quite touching. If it can happen in your AU, could it happen in your canon? *hopeful smile* Thanks for writing! God Bless & Happy Thanksgiving! ~Szepilona~ Author Reply: I'm so glad you finally read it in its entirety. I had planned only to write a single-chapter story, but it kept morphing and adding on! And I, too, can imagine the twins doing their best to remind Aragorn of his own responsibilities until he finally realized that this was one occasion where an exception must be made, and not only just for himself. As for Bartolo--I think you will find even in the more "canon" version he will find himself coming at least more to terms with Frodo in the end. But first I have to finish "Stirring Rings," which I've avoided much of this past month with the health problems I've faced. Anxiety is a terrible deterrent to writing, I find. | |
| Soledad | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 1/13/2008 |
| Wow! That's an interesting idea... and it makes excellent sense from the POV you present it. I must also say that Rosie is, aside from Éowyn, perhaps the most impressive female character of Middle-earth. What she was willing to accept out of love is greater than any Elven magic or divine intervention, IMO. Author Reply: Am so glad you find it interesting, Soledad. As for Rosie--I've always loved the idea of someone Sam loved so it kept him grounded and willing to stay within Middle Earth. She must have indeed been exceptional. This was the first AU story I wrote--basically took it through the storyline I've established before and changed only one aspect--and this is what came of it. Thanks so for the feedback. | |
| Halrohir | Reviewed Chapter: Author's Notes on 12/6/2007 |
| I have just reviewed this marvelous work - even in an AU storyline, you keep the flavor and taste of MIddle-Earth so well! You have done so much honor to Frodo, and having the Shire-folk finally wake up to the facts of the Quest Of Mount Doom is a beautiful tale. And in your epilogue, you are right: you do pathos quite well! I so look forward to walking through the garden of words that is your collection. I Am, HALROHIR Author Reply: Thank you so, Halrohir. How I managed to miss this review, I'm not certain, although I admit I DO have the ISP from Mordor! I'm so glad you feel I did manage to keep this believably Middle Earth. And I DO love writing pathos. Thank you again! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 10 on 4/27/2007 |
| What a lovely surprise! I was wondering why Sam would have gone West - there in some way being no point without his treasure there waiting - and then all those reunions with beloveds and I ached some that he had to witness that and know there was no one there - not the one that should have there - for him to reunite with. Then there he was! Now, at his turn, Sam can go out in joy also - they can go together. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: He knew Frodo wished him to know that blessing, and hoped that the journey and time on Tol Eressea would help heal the last damage left by the Ring as well as the renewal needed to accept the death of Frodo. And now, as you have noted--the two of them can go out in joy together as was intended all along. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 4/27/2007 |
| For me--he has become the shining example of courage and endurance beyond hope Me too - and for some many others. I was just fine until the drawing of the shroud over the head and then that made it so much more real and final and there was a cry sent up in my heart of No... But so must we all leave one day. Love that Sam would not be worried about a grave on the Hill - he is most correct that is the best place for his beloved brother's body, for Frodo's heart to remain with a large chunk of Sam's and Merry's and Pippin's and a bit of everyone's whose lives he touched - and Rosie to say he would not want a coffin. Though he would have been honored by many in the West, it seems more fitting for him to have accepted the Gift at home. That was a polite way in the previous chapter of referencing Bartolo's harsh words - I remember your request and wrote it into my will. I hope helping to carry the bier will help realize how noble Frodo was. Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) Author Reply: Whether Frodo stayed or went, either way it would be as death separating him from those he loved. And, either way, he would know the healing Love in the end to bring him to fulfillment indeed. No, Sam wouldn't worry about a grave on the Hill, and would rejoice to know Frodo's body rested where he loved to be and where he was himself loved. And I doubt Frodo would openly throw Bartolo's words back in his face--enough to give the gentle reminder and remonstrance, I think. This would help Barti to his own healing, particularly when he found much of Frodo mirrored in the Man now King who so openly loved Frodo and accepted him, finally getting through to him how much Frodo had treasured his honesty in a Shire where so much had gone bad during that year of absence. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 4/22/2007 |
| “Please, Aragorn--please let Pippin and me do it. We’ll not be able to--to do anything for him again for so long.” Very nice - to think that they will still be taking care of him when they meet next. :) Love in the last chapter that they spent a night together, the three of them, how hard it was and how wonderful it was. Love the light from Frodo and Sam and Aragorn. He did go out in joy and we can all hope for such a peaceful, beautiful death, wrapped in love and sending our own love. Namarie, God bless, Melinyel, Antane :) Author Reply: Oh, I do suspect strongly when they meet again that it will be Frodo, the oldest of the three cousins, who once again will be trying to offer them caring and concern, even as they seek to stand on guard for him. They've been so close, in spite of the gross differences in age, for so long; and now Merry and Pippin look at a potentially long remaining lifetime for them when they can't imagine Frodo on white shores beneath the stars and draw comfort from that, or from possible moments of mutual awareness as they pass the mallorn or the White Tree. There will be joy, though, when they meet again--of that I'm certain; and none will regret that Merry and Pippin spent that last night alongside with him, as much accepting his comfort as expressing theirs to him, I think. Thank you, Antane. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 4/22/2007 |
| I was hoping he would die in Sam's arms - the only place that makes sense really - and the place I hope he truly did die in. So glad Aragorn made it in time! That Frodo truly did have a spider in his neck and *that* one is terrible but he's free at last - he 'escaped' as Gandalf would say. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: The ISP has been giving me fits since late Saturday, so haven't been able to respond until now. To find release either in Sam's arms or beside him seemed the only two choices for Frodo's death as I could see it, also, which is why I wrote the latter in my stories of his dying on Tol Eressea and the former in this one--and in "An Enemy Made." And for this Aragorn had to be there, I think. As for Ungoliant--I'd already written her presence within the wound into "The Choice of Healing," so had to find a way of dealing with her presence on this side of the Sundering Sea, with no Maiar and Valar to see to her removal and disposal and the subsequent healing granted him. With that last pain and taint removed, Frodo is now free to die quietly and blessedly, able at last to rejoice he doesn't slip away alone and unnoted. Escaped? Perhaps; but at least now he has indeed gone out in joy, which is the wish (or blessing) Gandalf/Olorin left him with. So glad you are continuing to read and review. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 4/20/2007 |
| Oh, this is beginning to hurt - heart breaking indeed. But there are also memories being made that will be treasured with joy once the worst of the pain of loss is over - Elanor and Frodo snuggled together in sleep, seeing Frodo's Light so bright with the butterflies, the mental exchange between Frodo and his beloved Sam. Love that Sam said "It's all right, my dear." It's most definitely not all right but at the same time since he said it was, it was. This won't be easy for anyone but I think they are going to feel better being there. It's not going to be easy for me either. The queen did say I would have my heart torn out by this. Hurry up, Aragorn!! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Watching one you love die is difficult, but I fully believe, that respecting his decision thought would be taken to see to it there is beauty and pleasure to be shared at the last, peace and acceptance, and the comfort of Frodo realizing he'd rather NOT actually have Sam away from him at the moment. And the others need to see the shining of the two brothers of the heart together as they come to full acceptance of the looming parting--a parting perhaps far less onerous than one might think. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/19/2007 |
| I was getting nervous there that Aragorn would come - a cry went up in my heart when he thought to keep himself back, though I understand why he would no matter how much his own heart ached and wanted to be there. Good he got that message from above. :) At least he's on his way - I hope he makes it in time. Namarie, God bless, Antane Author Reply: This time Aragorn needed reassurance from a higher authority than himself that he should break his own ban; and I'm glad, also, he had the chance to do so. Even if he were to arrive too late, it would still be of great benefit to those who must remain. | |