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| Drabbles by Lindelea | 238 Review(s) |
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| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 3/19/2025 |
| Such a terrible moment for Beregond- but it was for the loyalty for Faramir! Author Reply: Exactly! He knew when he left his post, that he'd traded his life for Faramir's. (As my hobbits like to say, "Anything worth doing is worth doing thoroughly.") But it's not just that. Beregond is the character who dragged me into fanfic-writing in the first place. I wish the Professor had written more about him! (Not only his fierce, desperate loyalty to Faramir here, but his warm welcome and animated conversation with Pippin also won my heart.) | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/19/2025 |
| wow nice contrast to the last drabble where now Merry holds vigil for Pippin. Nicely done. Author Reply: Thank you! This drabble and the one before were actually a matched set (the titles are taken from a lullaby my mom used to sing), but I hadn't figured out about publishing sets of drabbles at the point these were posted. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/19/2025 |
| aww that last line really hit my heart. <3 How terrible it was for Pippin to see Merry suffer from the Black Breath. Author Reply: My heart is in my throat whenever I read scenes where one cousin is watching over the other, like here, in the Houses of Healing. How awful it must have been for Pippin before Aragorn entered the City. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/19/2025 |
| Dear young hobbits- love Merry and Pippin interactions. Author Reply: Oh, I do too! I love to stumble across fanfics that show the Travellers as children.. | |
| Periantari | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/19/2025 |
| I love how it weaves between present and past with such melancholic hints in it. Nicely done. Author Reply: Thank you! I was fascinated by drabbles in my early years of fanfic reading and writing. They were a challenge to write and a wonder to read, to see how an author could condense a scene to a minimum of words, cutting all extraneous language until every word left in the drabble served a carefully-designed purpose! I think the exercise of drabble writing helped me to be less wordy in my regular writing, though I still suffer from wordiness. It's hard to break old habits. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 53 on 3/19/2025 |
| Ohhhh, this is a very loving -- and moving -- series. *sniff* Author Reply: Thank you, dear friend. I hope this reply finds you well. (((hugs))) | |
| Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 2/27/2025 | |
| Can you do three drabbles of Remembering Day? One in Rivendell, one during the Quest, and one after the war, but before the Travellers start out for home from Gondor. I want to see the others reactions to this hobbit tradition. Also, will you finish the story of Bucca of the Mariah? I like the stories on the Shire's history. Author Reply: It's an interesting thought (a series of Remembering Day drabbles). I'll offer the Muse some dark chocolate and see if her nose twitches. Bucca's story is actually one of the WIPs that is currently progressing rapidly from draft to final form and is actually close to being finished (perhaps ten chapters remaining to deal with). I plan to start posting it again after I publish the final chapter of one of the current WIPs, hopefully in April, around Larner's birthday, as a mathom for her. I'm updating three or four works simultaneously on SoA but don't want to do more than that. I don't want to clutter SoA's home page by posting too many stories at once. I'm glad to hear you like the "Shire history" stories. One of these days I hope to get around to finishing Marcho and Blanco's (unpublished) story, but I haven't been able to figure out the ending yet, so I can't start publishing it until I do. Thanks for reading and taking the time to share your thoughts! | |
| Itarille | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 12/20/2024 |
| It's fitting for Eowyn to welcome a (captured) horse home! I must admit, before I read your notes, I had not understood the significance of the black horse. Author Reply: (Sometimes I feel as if I'm cheating regarding the 100-word limit by adding notes, but I always appreciate understanding the context when I'm reading other authors' stories, so I risk it.) Thanks for reading and pausing to share your thoughts! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 52 on 12/20/2024 |
| He cautiously whuffled her fingers. ‘No matter.’ She stroked his nose. ‘You’re home. That's lovely. Eowyn's life of healing and compassion will be a long one. Author Reply: Eowyn's life of healing and compassion will be a long one. That's such an encouraging thought! (((hugs))) and thanks for sharing your thoughts. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 51 on 12/20/2024 |
| 'Has it not struck you that the heir to Buckland, the heir to Tookland, and the heir to the richest hobbit in the Shire all disappeared on the same day? That would defniitely be a natural subject of gossip and concern! Author Reply: I know it struck me the first time I read it! I figured the Shire-folk would put two and two together (and who knows what they came up with?!) | |