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| This and That by Lindelea | 255 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/26/2005 |
| Ah, the teaching of Frodo Baggins to dance. Lovely! Author Reply: Much belated thanks! | |
| Armariel | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/26/2005 |
| Brava!!! They're all delightful, but I like the one about the pigsty best. Gotta love that Pippin, what? LOLOL Author Reply: A very belated thank you. And yes, I do indeed love the lad. Such a character! | |
| MaidenofValinor | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 4/25/2005 |
| A highly amusing addition to my day. I must say that Bilbo does come up with some wonderful ideas. The first one reminded me strongly of Dumbo, I cannot imagine why. :) Anyway, I am glad that Frodo has found a way to please the lasses, or at least his Uncle Bilbo. Author Reply: Thanks! Gee, I wonder if Bilbo heard the story of Dumbo in his youth... Na-a-a-ah. Perhaps it had something to do with the video going on in the other room at the time this was in the works... *g* | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/9/2005 |
| I do like Boromir and the hobbits. Even post-mortem Boromir. All the touches like Pippin growing less substantial to Boromir's touch as he returned closer to the living world are excellent. And I'm glad to see Denethor's madness leaving him in death, so that he can be reconciled with his son - and that he honours Beregond for his actions. It's lovely picturing Boromir fighting to keep life in Pippin until Gimli finds him and Aragorn and later Merry can anchor him. Author Reply: "even post-mortem Boromir" Hmmm. Bet you don't hear that every day. Glad the "touch" detail came through clear, that Boromir and Pippin were existing on separate planes and that they could only touch when Pippin was crossing from one to the other, and that when he pulled back into the world of the living, he became less substantial on the "other side". It is satisfying to give Denethor his healing. I seem to remember someone (Gandalf?) telling Pippin that Denethor is a "great man" but I forget the context. Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 4/6/2005 |
| Oh, I LOVE this one--so love this one--Boromir supporting Pippin until Merry could get there. Thank you so much for this story--it is a definite keeper! Author Reply: You are very welcome! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/17/2005 |
| Oh, I can so appreciate the exhausted Pippin who finds the pig sty fascinating. Poor, poor Merry. Author Reply: Poor Merry. It's the sort of thing to laugh about, sitting around and sipping brandy, years later. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/17/2005 |
| Aha, Frodo the party crasher! What a birthday surprise indeed! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/17/2005 |
| Been a while since I read this one. Still love it. And perching in a tree might make it easier to sing such a sont. Author Reply: Hm. Was it perching in the tree that spawned the song, or the song that led to the perching? | |
| Connie B. | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/16/2005 |
| Amazing what being over-tired can do to some people, especially if that person has a tendancy to be a bit hyper to start with. This story really shows how much the Quest changed our young Pippin. It's sad in a way that he grew up so fast, but I like the person he became so much. Sorry I didn't review this on the Challenge 14 sight. I haven't been up to my usual standards the last couple of weeks. There's been a bug going around, and jsut when I thought I was over it, it made a return visit. Now I just hope I can pull it together to write my Challenge 15 story. I wish I'd read this sooner. Thanks. Connie B. Author Reply: Poor thing, I hope you're well over your bug by now. I just seem to keep catching different ones--one after the other. I have been at that level of exhaustion, one of a group of young teens, all of us very silly after paddling-and-portaging through the wilderness for a number of days. It's the sort of thing that makes people put a "safety" rope around their waists to play in a waterfall... probably not something our counselors would have done, had *they* not been in the same state. And then to lie on the shore of an island in the middle of a pristine lake, after all the gear is tucked under the overturned canoes and dinner is eaten and everything washed up... calling back and forth with the loons across the water, while the stars come out and the Northern Lights dance. Whew. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/16/2005 |
| Is 'dippy as a Took' a new simile in the Shire? Although, apart from wallowing in a pig sty, I can see why Pippin is so excited. Everything else emphasises the difference between hobbits and elves - but they both have pigs. But I do think Pippin's reaction suggests he might have found and eaten some magic mushrooms as well as the more normal sort! So, then, Lindelea - how did Pippin and Merry convince the august Elf Lord that they were up to the task? Author Reply: LOL, is that a plot bunny I see before me? You're spot on with why Pippin is so excited. Exhausted, exhilarated (how DOES one spell that word?), and not a little homesick. Ummm, with the exception, perhaps, of the magic mushrooms. Dippy as a Took? Hmm, there's got to be some sort of Middle-earthish way to say that. | |