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| A Comedy of Merrys (or Much Ado About Merry) by Lindelea | 76 Review(s) |
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| Lindorien | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 2/11/2004 |
| So Merry thinks that blue tits are close sitters? ... ... ... Only you, Lindelea, could get away with that line and have everybody think you are talking about farming. Now if *I* wrote that... How disappointed am I NOT to find this in iambic pentameter? **sobs hysterically** **gets over it** 'tis cute, however. 'tis very cute. **Lindorien realizes that she has read two hobbit-fics in one evening and enjoyed both** **runs off to take her temperature** **Lindorien realizes just how well the phrase 'blue tits are close sitters' would work in a piece of 'off-color' poetry. She decides, however, to be a good girl and leave the idea by the side of the road. Then Lindorien goes into her Smeagol/Gollum routine: but we wantsss to writesss it precioussss We cantsss - its belongsss to nice Lindelea she writesss about all those nasssty hobbitses, theyse tricksy they issss. they steal the precioussssss don't want to read about blue tits and close sittersss, wants to eats them we doooo. we wantss them wet and wriggling. Sorry - didn't mean to hijack your review space. yes you did no i didn't yes you did no I didn't Poof! I am gone! Good Story, Lindelea. Shalt make a hobbit lover of me yet. Author Reply: Laughing helplessly. Feel free to hijack my review space any time! Author Reply: You read two hobbit fics in one sitting and enjoyed them? What was the other? Thanks for reviewing. Still chuckling. Good way to end the day. | |
| Lyta Padfoot | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 2/9/2004 |
| So Merry's cutting it very close. I loved the domestic details regarding Bag End. Author Reply: Oh, thank you, I will ask my editor pretty-please not to cut that part and call it "background". Merry is cutting it closer than he knows, as will come out in a future chapter. Thanks for the feedback! | |
| Anso | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/6/2004 |
| Yay! A lot of Merrys. What fun. Author Reply: Yes, I am having quite a bit of fun, though it will be more challenging to keep everything straight once the wedding starts! Wish me luck! Thanks for reviewing! | |
| Connie | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/5/2004 |
| Oh, this does look good. I really liked seeing Pippin and Diamond's middle children in this. I think I'm going to like them. Is spring in the air, or what? Isn't this the second story envolving a wedding that you've started posting this week? Looking forward to lots more. Connie. Author Reply: It is the second, though they are separated by 7 years, I think. This story is actually the first one on the timeline, it just has not cooperated very well when it came to writing. When I came to the end of "Shire" and "Pearl", I needed to start working on another story-in-progress or else start a new one, and I've been waiting so very long to get to "Solid Ground"... I wanted to post this first, but it just wouldn't come. Now it is percolating, but I had already started posting the other. In the interest of fun (I get bored easily) I'm going to see how far I can write and keep the chapter titles the same in both stories. *That* ought to be a challenge, considering the very different nature of the two stories. | |
| eiluj | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/5/2004 |
| Sorry, but I think there's an "oops." You may or may not have to decide who is the ranking "Mistress Cotton" in question (the family tree does not give a date for Lily Cotton's death, but her husband had died in 1440) -- but in any case surely it couldn't be anyone the Gamgee kids would refer to as "Mistress Cotton"? She's either Gramma (Lily, Rose's mother) or Aunt Marigold (Sam's sister and Rose's brother's wife) or still another Aunt (wife of another of Rose's brothers). ‘It’s our duty to make Frodo’s wedding memorable, you know!’ Now *that's* scary! Author Reply: You are correct! I have changed it to "Aunt Marigold", since she's a character in the story anyhow, and her husband would have inherited the farm after Farmer Cotton died. Farmer Cotton died? *sniff* How sad! I feel as bad as I did when I realised that Uncle Merimac had died... Author Reply: p.s. Thanks! | |
| Lyta Padfoot | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/5/2004 |
| I suspect this ISN'T the comedic wedding story ;) I was rather surprised to see this one pop up, thought it'd be a while until you debuted it. There are times its nice to be mistaken in assumptions. Sam and Rose should have known better than to name their children after Merry and Pippin. Same applies to Diamond and Peregrin. Young Merry Took (all these Merrys! Could Merry Took's name be spelled Merri or Meri to save on reader confusion?) should be interesting, you've not dealt with him to the extent of Faramir. Can't wait to see what will go awry at the wedding! Author Reply: Ummm. Well, I won't disillusion you. Keep your frown in place and watch for angst... ;) Well this does come first on the timeline and I meant to post it first but it wouldn't write itself so I put it away, promising to start posting when the fifth chapter was safely written. In the meantime, "Solid Ground" had been bugging me and so I started posting *that*. Wouldn't you know that something in "Merrys" broke loose as a result? The pieces have fallen into place and the story is merrily writing itself. I had originally spelled Merry Took's name "Meri" and might go back to that, haven't decided yet. Thanks for reviewing! | |