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| The Grey at the End of the World by jodancingtree | 108 Review(s) |
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| Rose Sared | Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 11/7/2005 |
| Ah how nice to see the hobbits with backbone and direction. I need Radagast here at dinner time when I am supposed to produce an instant meal sometimes with as little ingredients! Hah Good to see a future for all these folk we have come to love. Rose Author Reply: Sure, the hobbits are a sturdy people, never mind their small stature - all they needed was a plan... And I wish Radagast would show up at my door at dinner time as well! jo | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 11/3/2005 |
| A little tenderness, exactly what we were needing. The child's been a true blessing, as we all hoped he would, and poor Logi's pubsihment is still oging on....I cringed when he understood that the hobbits thought that it was Canohando killing his own people, when it was him! How guilt must be eating at him! YEt the hobbit at the end spoke much as Radgast would have, didn't he? I almost thought it was him at first! Your hobbits are extraordinadily hobbity, jo, and it was with such dgnity again that he let them remain and give their help, ieven if they did not needed it anymore.... I was thinking about a line in the prologue I believe of LOTR, when Tolkien says that they still live among us... so the point here is what about the guardinas and their lot in ME? Lovely, lovely chapter, thanks! | |
| Inkling | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 11/3/2005 |
| Logi and his son got me all choked up! Maybe he won’t need the Brown Wizard for his salvation after all… And love the Hobbit. Fled the Marish, eh? Well there may be no more Buckland, but surely there are Brandybucks. Is this one, perchance? Author Reply: Canohando isn't ready to believe it, but all the love he poured into his grandson has not been for nothing. Where else did Logi learn to be a father? And I'm guessing the Hobbit might be a Brandybuck - he has the humor and shrewd common sense of his famous ancestor. jo | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 11/3/2005 |
| So the baby is elven-fair. And the hobbits are looking after Logi as much as the reverse. The hobbits are proving very good at hiding. Which can only be a good thing. I look forward to seeing what happens here. Author Reply: Hi, Bodkin! Yes, they are looking after him, aren't they? I hadn't thought about that. Hobbits are very faithful about paying their debts. I'm glad you're enjoying this. jo | |
| rose sared | Reviewed Chapter: 24 on 11/1/2005 |
| Ah the ever surprising hobbits, taken to hiding to the manor born, and cannier than anyone would think. I wonder who is protecting whome here? Nice chapter Jo. rose Author Reply: Thanks, Rose. And when you think about it, even in the beginning, Frodo, Sam and Pippin hid instinctively from the Black Rider. jo | |
| perelleth | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 10/25/2005 |
| I won't tire of repeating that I love how compassionate you are with all your characters. UNavoidable as all this is, everybody behaves with such dignity that it is impossible not to feel kind of the call of fate there, and bow to these brave people, bracing for their last stand, yet finding the strength to step forth for duty, even when everythng's lost. THey all have such dignity, and Radagast's coming is truly a ray of hope, of deepest hope for canohando, in the sense that his mission shall not fail, even if he and all his people and family are swept away. Very, very, very Tolkienish, jo, congratulations! Author Reply: Thank you, perelleth! No higher praise could be, and if this story so far away from LOTR can still be considered Tolkienish, there's nothing more I can wish for. jo | |
| Rose Sared | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 10/25/2005 |
| And so the legends of brownies and so on. Nicely done, now all you have to do is get them to change everything in their way of doing things. Easy Very enjoyable-Rose Author Reply: LOL. Guess it might take a few generations, huh? At least. But I've always been intrigued by all the tales of elusive "little people" and wondered if there could be some reality behind the stories... here's my chance to give it a rationale. jo | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 10/24/2005 |
| Good to see Radagast - and bringing some hope to the Orc, too. But it's a desperate situation. Author Reply: Desperate indeed. But then, so was Frodo's state of mind in Another Way of Leaving. The Brown Wizard is still a healer. jo | |
| Inkling | Reviewed Chapter: 23 on 10/24/2005 |
| And so the Hobbits’ future has arrived. What would Frodo think indeed? It’s sad, but no more so than what we knew to expect from the very first passages of LOTR, “Concerning Hobbits.” The world truly seems more diminished with each passing Age, though… Author Reply: I know. I know the Shire is gone, the Hobbits scattered - and it makes me want to cry. | |
| demeter d | Reviewed Chapter: 17 on 10/20/2005 |
| Concerning: where are there Hobbits today? i enjoyed the comment about your choir-master. But there are others. I heard a quote from the English Admiral Nelson, that his idea of the perfect infantryman was a sturdy Welshman about 5 foot 6 tall, a dwarf notion even if not a Hobbit;And, my own father's mother was a woman not even five feet tall, probably 80 or so pounds by time she died at 94. Her ancestors came from some of the little "Shire" regions of the British Isles, Yorkshire, Lancashire, etc. To the day she died she remained in her own home on her small farm. Looks were deceiving in her case, even though small she was a force to be reckoned with in our family. And, something I never tire of sharing. The american amination company Rankin Bass made, in the 70's and 80's, I believe, two cartoon movies released here in the U.S. The first one very nicely told the tale of "The Hobbit". The second was called "The Return of the King" and started with Gandalf and Pippin coming to Minas Tirith. Together with the uneven, regretable "Lord of The Rings" cartoon movie by Saul Zaentz, the three cover most of all four books. The end of "The Return" has Gandalf and the four Hobbits in Rivendell to see Bilbo on the way home. They discuss the elves leaving, and Bilbo and Frodo are invited at that time. One of the Hobbits, Sam, I think, asks Gandalf if there will still be room for Hobbits in the new world of men, as devoid of magic as it will become. Gandalf's answer, (definitely NOT book canon, but, I think, wonderful anyway) was that Sam is younnger than Frodo, and has grown larger than he. Merry and Pippin, also, are younger than Sam, and larger still. He said that as hobbits and men become more like each other as the ages rolled on, perhaps some day some adventurous young human would look in the mirror and ask, "I wonder if there is some Hobbit in me? Then the cartoon Gandalf looks straight at the viewer, and in actor John Huston's wonderful voice asks US, "Well, is there?" Those of us who love the old tales fervently hope so! | |