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| Healing the Long Cleeve by TopazTook | 161 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 8/12/2005 |
| Too bad Pippin is left with this judgment as well. It must be tearing him apart. Author Reply: Yes, I thought it was interesting to explore a little bit how the demands on Pippin as Took and Thain (as the appendices note he becomes in 1434) would weigh on him in terms of havingt to deal with “disciplinary” type actions against his family members -- especially when he grew up as the little brother in the whole birth order thing, so it might seem a bit of role reversal in some ways. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 8/12/2005 |
| How the webs we weave catch ourselves in the end. Satisfactory that Ganelon is caught himself, and has lost all just when he thought he held all within his own hands. Author Reply: Hoist by our own petards, as it were... Glad you thought the Ganelon comeuppance was satisfactory. iIt really is all his own fault. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 8/5/2005 |
| It's hard when jealousy and frustration seek to damage what is there. Author Reply: Mmm-hmm. Jealousy and frustration. Two pretty ugly emotions. (Unfortunately, a part of all of our make-ups nonetheless.) | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 8/5/2005 |
| Apparently the marriage was nowhere as successful for Pervinca as it has been (FINALLY) for Diamond and Pippin. I pity the lass. Author Reply: No, Pervinca’s marriage didn’t quite work out the same as Pippin’s. To paraphrase Merry’s quote from an earlier chapter: all marriages are different...even when the circumstances might seem similar. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 8/5/2005 |
| The foolish things we worry about.... Author Reply: Yes, but they don’t seem so foolish to those who do the worrying, especially at the time... | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 8/5/2005 |
| Yes, the pain of the loss is there, and will remain for all of them. Author Reply: Yes; it’s a sweet but lingering melancholy that suffuses all of them, I think. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 18 on 8/5/2005 |
| A good meeting here. I love Aragorn, you see--have done so for 42 years now, and I do love to see him give a greeting. Author Reply: Huh. OK, I’m not clear on whether what you particularly love about Aragorn is his greetings, but I’m glad you liked him in this chapter just the same. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 8/5/2005 |
| At last--the marriage well and truly consumated, and done well at that, even if they did need a little guidance. The story my mother blushingly told of her own marriage night comes back to me.... Author Reply: Thank you; glad you liked this chapter. (I was a bit nervous about it, as it’s the first sex scene I’ve ever written.) That’s very...intriguing...that your mother would tell you such tales of her wedding night. It’s not the kind of information I particularly want to get from my mom (thin walls gave me quite enough information, thank you) -- although it was encouraging, albeit uncomfortable, to have my 80-something grandmother refer winkingly to a certain kind of “fun.” | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 16 on 8/5/2005 |
| Well, it's about ruddy time! About time indeed! And I suspect Diamond will like it far better than her mother! Author Reply: “It’s about time” -- now, where have I heard that before? Oh, yes, in nearly every response to this and the subsequent chapter, LOL. Guess you’ll find out reading that one what she thinks in comparison to her mother. Author Reply: “It’s about time” -- now, where have I heard that before? Oh, yes, in nearly every response to this and the subsequent chapter, LOL. Guess you’ll find out reading that one what she thinks in comparison to her mother. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 15 on 8/5/2005 |
| They needed to tell, did their best to hold it in, to hide it, but needed to tell. Glad the two of them have each other now. Author Reply: Yep; he not only needed to tell, but she needed to know. Glad that the bonding worked for you. | |