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From the noteboook  by Anso the Hobbit 71 Review(s)
PIppinfan1988Reviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/18/2006
Wow...this is absolutely beautiful! I especially LOVE the contrast you portray between Gimli and the hobbits, how comforting another is so foreign to him. Yet by the end, Gimli finds himself a bit homesick, too. Wonderful tale!

LOL, I was just rummaging around and noticed your Notebook. I was in the mood to read something I had not read before, and so I picked this one--and I'm glad. Take care. :-)

Pippinfan

Author Reply: Sorry about the late reply. I am happy that you liked my little story and that you found the Notebook. :D

LarnerReviewed Chapter: 26 on 1/17/2006
Strength begets strength; and these two have developed strengths they never dreamed they could possess. And the two of them share the experience of the cold hands and arms from encounters with the Witch King, and so have a rapport that is special there, as well as mutual concern for the others, and particularly for Pippin.

Lovely imagery, the two Hobbits sleeping together in the growing daylight, comforting and being comforted.

Author Reply: Thanks! :D I am glad you enjoyed my little picture.

DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 26 on 1/16/2006
Oh Anso, this is absolutely beautiful! I *adore* moments like this, when Frodo takes on his role as Merry's big brother/cousin, and the image of the two of them sleeping against one another in the sunrise was just achingly beautiful! Thank you for this absolutely lovely little fic!

Author Reply: Thank you for reading! I still have that picture in my head and can only close my eyes to see them before me, snuggled up together, leaning on each other and sleeping together. :D

harrowcatReviewed Chapter: 26 on 1/16/2006
Oh this is so sad but lovely and snuggly too!

Author Reply: Thank you!

SlightlyTookishReviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/3/2006
Lots of lovely Merry-comfort here, Anso! I love how Gimli is hesitant to pick up Merry - but of course he'll get over that reluctance when it comes time for him to rescue Pippin! I like how Gimli, Legolas and Eowyn all responded to Merry's distress and did all that they could to make him comfortable. I love it when we get to see the hobbits through another race's eyes and you do a great job of that here :)

Author Reply: Thank you so much and I'm sorry I am replying so late to this. Glad you enjoyed it. :D

harrowcatReviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/2/2006
Lovely Anso, half asleep or not. I'm glad that Merry doesn't remember it though.

Author Reply: Thanks. Yes, I don't think he would have liked to remember that.

shireboundReviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/1/2006
Sorry to quote such a long passage back at you, but it says so much not just about Gimli, but about what he's observed and learned about hobbits:

as he came to learn more about the nature of hobbits he understood that the affection between family and friends was something the hobbits wore on their sleeves and to hold another hobbits hand or hug was as natural to them as not doing so was to the Dwarf. Now Merry was alone without his cousins or Sam or even Gandalf to comfort him. Gimli thought back to what the others had done for the hobbit in need of comfort and blushed at the thought of him having to do the same. He was alien to gather someone in his arms and rock them and stroke their hair and face until they calmed or sing soft songs into a small pointed ear until the sobs subsided. He didn't have children and his Dwarven nature was not bound to that kind of behaviour. He knew he must appear hard as the stone he so cherished to the soft-hearted hobbits, but he also knew that they had found trust and the occasional comfort in him. He could remember several occasions where a small body - usually Pippin followed by Merry - would snuggle up beside him for warmth and coax a story or even a song out of him, but when it came to distress the hobbits had always taken care of their own.

What a tender, lovely scene. All acknowledge Merry's courage, and yet know that he and his race have very little experience with war... and with being alone amongst strangers.

Author Reply: I¨m sorry I am replying so late to this but I am glad you liked it. It was fun thinking out what Gimli might think when put in that situation. :D

DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 25 on 1/1/2006
Oh, Anso, this is so sweet and poignant! I love Gimli's distress--he really doesn't know how to comfort Merry, and yet he wants to so badly. I love the way Legolas doesn't remonstrate, but just takes Merry up and tries to soothe him, and then surrenders his burden to Eowyn.

How hard for Merry, having been forcibly seperated from Pippin, and from Frodo and Sam as well. He's endured the storming of Isengard, and see Pippin in the throes of the palantir, and now he must be eaten up with worry and exhaustion. What a lovely picture of the comforts his friends offer, and a good look at why Eowyn may have felt moved to include Merry when she rode off among the Rohirrim.

Wonderful job!

Author Reply: Thank you sweetie for such nice words. I¨m sorry I am so late in replying though. I think that Eowyn at an early stage must have felt some kinship or other towards Merry and I do belive she loved him like a brother. :D

harrowcatReviewed Chapter: 24 on 12/7/2005
Lovely description Anso. I especially liked the way that Estella uses the temerature of Merry's arm as a kind of barometer!

BTW I couldn't access this from my story alert e.mail!

Author Reply: Thank you! :D

No, I know you couldn¨t access any story because I put a chapter up, then took it down again because it was a multichaptered story (Comfort) so I decided it needed a post of it's own.

DreamflowerReviewed Chapter: 24 on 10/23/2005
Ah, Anso, that's so romantic and sweet! I do so love your Merry/Estella. *sigh*

Author Reply: Thank you! :D I love writing them too, they are a lovely couple I think. :D

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