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| A Small and Passing Thing by Lindelea | 3 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 4/22/2023 |
| Some female training is proving useful, at least. Author Reply: Hah! I hadn't thought of that! | |
| FantasyFan | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 10/9/2003 |
| Even though Freddy's not entirely healed, he is getting his wits back about him. Frodo's got more sense than the healer. He knows Freddy isn't stupid, and he knows that Freddy imagining the worst is far more dangerous to his eventual recovery than hearing an unpleasant truth. I wish modern-day healers would take the lesson. It seems the adventure of living life as "Twig" is wearing thin for Stell. I assume that smilar to Farry in the other story, Stell has learned some new skills and gotten to see another way of life. Besides being thought of as a boy, I would guess Twig is also thought of as younger than Estella really is, so I can understand her wishing for her family and some of her old pleasures, but things are different. Perhaps once she is rescued, she also will find a little difficulty molding herself into a new place in the renewed Shire. I have observed that once a person has new experiences, or a new point of view, there often follows a period of dissonance where even old familiar places and people seem strange. When you are no longer the same, it seems odd and off-putting that other things have stayed in their old places. Estella will be going through that when she returns to her family, Frodo is preparing Freddy to deal with it, and Pippin is struggling right now with not fitting into his old slot. Really, nearly everyone in the Shire will have to remake themselves and their place in light of memories and losses and changes that will hover just below the surface of concious memory. Some of it will be very good: for example, it will be easier to ignore or remake customs like class differences, and old petty feuds should pale in comparison to recent troubles. Merry sees it as his responsibility to make sure that the new order is as carefree and innocent as the old. I think Frodo is just a little less interested in preserving the Shire unchanged - remember once he said that an invasion of dragons might be a good thing for the inhabitants of the Shire. Well, he's gotten his dragons in a two-legged form. And, he's the one who's had his reality bent the furthest out of shape. I wonder if he can comfortably allow the Shire's hobbits to sink back into ignorance. | |
| Hai | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 10/9/2003 |
| Oh, no! How would the group missed so many? And in Took's area too? Wouldn't want "Twig" to be hurt and no one know who she really is now would we? Looking forward to finding out what happens! Thank you! | |