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A Long and Weary Way  by Canafinwe 4 Review(s)
l75cBf3ZQSReviewed Chapter: 11 on 11/24/2015
Hello,Thank you for your comment. I am afriad I do not understand exactly were the problem lies. Coud you please be more explicit? We are about to install the signs with boastings which will complete the directional signage of the trail. In addition, on of the most important of signs has been brutaly removed. Thank you,The kythera hiking team

obsidianjReviewed Chapter: 11 on 1/18/2014
What a horrible desolate place. Bilbo's rhyme was such a relief. At least something nice and good in this place, and it saved Aragorn.

shireboundReviewed Chapter: 11 on 11/21/2013
How wonderful that Bilbo's verse brought him such strength in such a dire circumstance.

What he felt was not a genuine failing of hope and courage. It was the incursion upon his mind of an unseen evil: wickedness unclad was wandering Morgul Vale tonight.

Beautifully described!

Author Reply: Thank you! It's always a trick to describe the Nazgul with the right degree of horror. Ugh.

And dear old Bilbo to the rescue! It's clear in the books how much Aragorn treasures that rhyme.

UTfrogReviewed Chapter: 11 on 11/21/2013
How proud Bilbo will be when he learns how his verse saved Aragorn. I fear a prayer to the Valar would have been intercepted by the Nazgul and Aragorn captured. Bilbo's verse brought hope without direct threat to evil. Now, please let Aragorn get out of this awful place to the next awful place. Thank you.

Author Reply: Proud indeed, and rightly so! I'm sure you're right about a prayer to the Valar drawing precisely the wrong sort of attention. What appears to be nothing more than a nonsensical nursery rhyme, on the other hand...

From awful place to awful place. Have you been reading ahead?

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