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| Shire: Beginnings by Lindelea | 127 Review(s) |
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| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 2/8/2025 |
| Yay, they’re saved! I love how the Elves are both fierce and utterly merry - I thinks it’s very much how Tolkien pictured them. At least, the Elves of Middle Earth. Not sure how merry the Noldor actually are… Author Reply: Yes, the description of the Elves here is definitely taken from JRRT's descriptions of Elves from Sam's viewpoint in Rivendell. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 2/8/2025 |
| They were just going to kill the Hobbits? That’s terrible! 😣 Must be toward the end when they were in league w Angmar - surely otherwise they wouldn’t dare. Glad Elladan was there to hold things off! Sounds like they’ve got some more help too… Author Reply: JRRT talked about the Men in this area becoming so wicked that even the names of their Kings were no longer remembered by Frodo's time. Angmar may very well have been influencing them at this point. It's also revealed in a later chapter that the local King is relatively young, which may have led to his choosing the wrong mentors and counsellors and listening to the wrong advice. And from this point on comes a series of chapters that were wonderful to write and that I still enjoy re-reading when I'm looking for a lift. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 2/8/2025 |
| And indeed, Ell Adan - it is about time! Author Reply: Yes, Ell Adan. You're late! | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 2/8/2025 |
| Ohhh… I’m so sad for their state. And so glad they will be taken care of soon! What a terrible life right now - but it will be better! Author Reply: It was terrible, but I guess it could also be called a refining fire of sorts. I'm also glad that the story turns around at about this point and becomes much more positive (for the hobbits, anyhow) all the way to the end. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 2/8/2025 |
| Good news for Pick, but a sad state the rest of the little ones are in. I’m glad Elladan came across Thorn (😢), hopefully they will get some rest and good food now. Author Reply: Poor Elladan. He was a bit distracted, what with Glorfindel's wounding and illness, and the warning he received was relatively vague and required keen attention. (I will blame JRRT for the losses described in this story, reflecting his observance that Hobbits' oral histories "hardly looked back further than their Wandering Days", which is most easily explained by the catastrophic loss of most or all of their memory-keepers at a dark time in history.) | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 2/8/2025 |
| Whew! He ended up in the right place, at least! Maybe Grand-alf will take him to Rivendell and he will meet the rest of his people there… Author Reply: Grand-alf is one of the Wise, after all... | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 2/8/2025 |
| Sigh … ♥️♥️♥️ What a lovely gift Thorn was given. Now, as we know Pick isn’t going to be eaten he’d better start getting that bird’s attention! Author Reply: It was satisfying to give Thorn that vision of the future and the promise that his descendants would thrive, partly as a result of his faithfulness and careful listening and obedience to the Voices that guided him. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 2/7/2025 |
| Oh no!! I hope Pick can either sneak out or convince the Eagles he’s not food… This was an utterly lovely chapter - poignant and sad and yet full of hope for the travelers. I’ll miss Thorn. What forest was that they crossed, BTW? Or, was it just random trees? I couldn’t quite place on a map where they were - though I also was not looking in the right timeframe either. And why in the world are those orcs so persistent? Sigh … I have to go to bed now … Enjoying this! Author Reply: The pine forest? Probably a random stand of trees. I don't remember if they were fir trees, reflecting Gandalf and the Dwarves and the Burglar taking refuge from goblins and wolves, or if the trees were just "there" and didn't constitute a large enough forest to have a name and marking on a map. It may be possible that the Enemy has some inkling of Hobbits' part in the song and is driving His servants to stamp them out. That possibility becomes more apparent when they reach one of the realms of Men on the other side of the mountains. (Another possibility is just too disturbing to contemplate.) I'm glad you enjoyed this story! Author Reply: p.s. I was also sad to say good-bye to Thorn. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 2/7/2025 |
| Boy, their luck is just not good these past days. And what’s with the so-persistent gobble-uns? They must really want to find these hobbits! Author Reply: They knew the crossing would be dangerous. One or both of the sons of Elrond might have helped them at this point, but the warnings were too vague, unfortunately. | |
| PSW | Reviewed Chapter: 14 on 2/7/2025 |
| Oh no!! I hope Pick is okay! Author Reply: Well, things are pretty touch-and-go at this point, but Someone is watching over Pick, so I'm sure that helps. | |