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When Trouble Came  by Lily Dragonquill 5 Review(s)
cathleenReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 3/30/2008
Oh, this is off to a wonderful start!

Author Reply: Thanks, cathleen! I hope the rest remains as wonderful to read... it definitely was a joy to write ;)

PeriantariReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 3/22/2008
ooo Very exciting beginning so far! There are so many questions to answer with that thrilling and angsty beginning. I eagerly await more. :)

Author Reply: And they will be answered... at least I hope so :)

SlightlyTookishReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 3/22/2008
You can ramble at me any time! :)

This looks great, a very powerful beginning! I love the Took Sight (as you know) and Paladin's dream is a great way of showing what is going on in Buckland. I'm looking forward to the next chapter!

Author Reply: Ah, but is his dream true? It might be, and yet his mind might paint a darker picture than is true. He doesn't know and neither do we.

LarnerReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 3/22/2008
All are besieged. After all, who within the Shire would expect to be so betrayed by their own? It was perhaps poetic justice that Lotho died as a result of his own machinations, but it makes it no less sad for all of that.

Author Reply: A betrayal like that neither could expect but I think Lotho's death made it easier for the hobbits to forgive him.

AndreaReviewed Chapter: Prologue on 3/22/2008
Dear Lily,

Wow! What a beginning! Paladin's vision was very disturbing. I call it a vision, because he is a Took. Of course we know that not all visions come true, but *he* does not know what the future will bring. So I can feel with him, torn between the Tooklands and Buckland, where his daughter and sister are!

And what about Merimac with all the blood on his hands?

Anyway, I'm hooked :) Can't wait for the next chapter!

And to make sure that you won't forget your mother-tongue:

Frohe Ostern Dir, Deinen Freunden und Deiner Familie!

Author Reply: Paladin's vision is indeed very dark, but he doesn't know the truth. His mind may paint a darker picture because he is troubled about his own people as well - and yet it might not.

The blood will be explained.

Frohe Ostern! :)

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