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Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time   by Dreamflower 3 Review(s)
AntaneReviewed Chapter: 17 on 12/6/2012
Sorry that I've gotten so far behind here. What an dramatic chapter! It could well have been this way. Cute about adventures making you late for supper and fool of a Took. :)

Namarie, God bless, Antane :)

Author Reply: Well, it had to be dramatic, considering the subject matter! Starving wolves in the Shire were a pretty dire situation!

I think some of the sayings we see in LotR are old sayings around the Shire!

AndreaReviewed Chapter: 17 on 11/14/2012
Good old Gandalf! He's always there at the right time!

Chop should not underestimate his own strength, though. I think that even without Gandalf the hobbits would have succeeded in driving the wolves out of the Shire. But some of them would have died!

Adventures are nasty things that make you late for supper!

That sounds familiar :-)



Author Reply: Oh my! I am finding a whole lot of reviews I didn't know about! I haven't been getting notifications lately, but I did not realize it went this far back!

Yes, I think that they would have as well--but you are right, it would have cost hobbit lives! Which is why I sent Gandalf to the rescue!

*grin* Well, Bilbo could have been quoting someone...

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 17 on 10/30/2012
Hooray! What a defense the Hobbits put up! Alas for the wounded, but it could have been SO much worse without Adalgrim's family coming together, and without Gandalf's help! And love that line of Bilbo's possibly having come from Paladin's father.

Author Reply: Yes, without the Tooks, and especially without Gandalf, the Shire would have been in a terrible fix!

I was writing that little bit at the end, and that bit of dialogue just seemed to fit right in there. I wonder if it might have originated with Uncle 'Gar, who would have had his own opinion on Adventures? It could have become a family saying.

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