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| Dreamflower's Mathoms I by Dreamflower | 859 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/3/2004 |
| 'Pippin could already sing a number of songs in Sindarin, without a clue as to what they meant.' I love the potential for danger in this . . . picking up Dwarvish songs that insult Elves. Elvish songs that talk about the perfidy of Men . . . which he then sings in Minas Tirith. He could even start singing Orcish marching songs. Author Reply: Now there's a plot bunny...(shoo...shoo...I don't have time for you...go back to Bodkin, there's a good bunny...) Now the others I can see him doing, but I draw the line at Orc songs--Black Speech is not very nice to listen to. He might, however, make his own "translation" of what he *thinks* it means (like Bilbo with "Down Down to Goblin Town). | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/3/2004 |
| Another story that just flows, start to finish. Legolas' sensitivity, perceiving the difference in moods, and his quickness at thinking up a solution. Pippin's politely refraining from family trees, though he doesn't understand. And his picking up music and words he doesn't understand, for the love of the music! And the duet at the end, unconscious of listeners. Very nice. Author Reply: Thank you very much! I really love to write Legolas with the hobbits. I think that he truly loves them, and is fascinated by them. Of course, he is quickly able to understand Pippin's thoughtful mood, very different from Pip's usual cheerfulness. Pip and Merry however, tend to think of their companions as large hobbits, and have to remind themselves every so often that they are not. The idea that someone is not interested in how people are related seems very strange to them. And I thought it would be neat to have them so absorbed in the music that they just didn't take notice of the audience. | |
| annmarwalk | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/3/2004 |
| These were very lovely and brightened my morning! Thank you! Ann Author Reply: I'm so glad you enjoyed them! | |
| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/2/2004 |
| The Gaffer disagreeing with Bilbo? Now that would be interesting. :) *hint, hint* Sam definitely learned his lesson about being lazy and not using the appropriate tools. He probably feels worse about the two weeks off work than he does about the cut itself. Author Reply: *whistles...rolls eyes...nudges bunny away with toe...looks out of corner of eye...* I'm sure he does. He knows the Gaffer will be having to work alone without his help, which is really going to make him feel bad. And I'm with Merry--I don't think Sam truly has a lazy bone in his body. It was probably more impatience, really, than laziness, that made him use the tool he had to hand rather than fetch the appropriate one. But trust him to put the worst interpretation on his motives. | |
| Imrahoil | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/2/2004 |
| What a proper story! - huhu, don't you get tired of it? I suppose everybody who has read "A new reckoning" does it automatically: Dreamflower + Sam = proper, at least I do, as is only proper, of course -. ;-) Like it very much, a good Sam coddling makes always for a nice comfort reading. Author Reply: Oh yes, my Sam's been "proper" from a very young age, thanks to the Gaffer! Well, Rabidsamfan did ask for it, so I tried to deliver. Apparently there are not a few people who like to see Sam coddled! | |
| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/1/2004 |
| You don't see Merry and Gandalf alone very often, and this is such a beautiful scene. Very well done. Author Reply: No, come to think of it. There are a lot of Gandalf and Pippin moments. But he's known Merry even longer; I didn't really think about that part of it, it just seemed natural that Gandalf could soothe him. Thank you for reading and reviewing! | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/1/2004 |
| Merry remained very calm and collected. Well done, that hobbit. Poor Sam - the embarrassment of being looked after! Hardly proper. Author Reply: I always imagine young Merry as the Boy Scout type: always prepared, and trying to do what's needed in an emergency. He probably falls apart a little later on. Yes, being looked after would be embarassing to poor Sam, but he just doesn't get many chances at it, after all. | |
| Viresse | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/1/2004 |
| Oh I like this one. (When do I not, she asked, rhetorically.) I do like the Gaffer's reactions. "He’d been known to argue with his master, but not in front of others". Love it. Need some more of the Gaffer and Bilbo. Any more little plot bunnies scampering around with those two, hmmm? Author Reply: Oh, you never can tell. I'm not really certain where some of these bunnies are hatching from, but most of these little gift fics are requests from my LJ friends list. When Rabidsamfan asked for a bit of Sam h/c, I immediately thought of young Sam. | |
| RogerGamgee | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 11/30/2004 |
| Angsty is right...this is really a moving tale. I've truly enjoyed reading all of these mathoms of yours, and look forward to more. Well done! Author Reply: Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed them. I had begun to realize that my Author page was filling up with a lot of very short little challenge fics and drabbles, and that I had a lot more of them on the way with the holidays coming. So I decided to put them all in one place so to speak. I'm not going to move the ones already in place, though. I'm afraid I would mess up my reviews. | |
| GamgeeFest | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 11/29/2004 |
| That was just beautiful! A wonderful, touching connection between Frodo's loss, and now Merry's. Author Reply: You know by now that those connections between them are my obsession. I've thought for some time how the grief of the ones left behind was in a way taking the grief that Frodo was also leaving. | |