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| Moments in Time by Larner | 12 Review(s) |
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| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 37 on 8/17/2007 |
| What a wonderful summation of the POVs of the three fathers who waited so patiently for their sons to return home! All of them, worried sick and desperate for over a year--and now the homecoming was so different than expected--so much better and worse at the same time! Incomprehensible! Saradoc's displays the trust he has in Merry, and in Frodo, and the frustration at his son trying to protect his family from all the darkness he's faced. Brandybuck stubbornness and determination all gone into firm denial--yet Saradoc's keen eye and intelligence has far more understanding than his son will give him credit for. Paladin's own desperate reach for a denial he cannot quite convince himself of; preferring to wish his son turned back into a child whom he could protect; preferring not to face his own perceived failure as Thain to protect the Shire. How hard it must have been for him in the depths of the night to continue to push his suspicions that Pippin was telling the truth away. And the Gaffer, who is a son of the soil, and who knows far less about the world Outside than either of the others, but who knows his son well and the one he served also. He doesn't need to understand; he's simply himself, and he's proud of whatever it was they did, because he knows that however they came to do it, it had to be right. But he's not going to change his irascible tone or native gruffness. After all, Sam knows him too, and he knows that his father's proud of him and is glad for him to be home, whatever his words might say. Beautiful job, you convey their love in spite of all their differences. Author Reply: Thank you so, Dreamflower. To hear I managed to convey exactly what I hoped to do is heartening. Thank you so very much. And if Paladin was as I write him, yes, keeping the uncomfortable truth pushed away must have been very difficult indeed. | |
| Grey Wonderer | Reviewed Chapter: 37 on 8/16/2007 |
| Such wonderful little looks at our hobbit lads! I loved them all but I found the almost pleading way that your story asked for information from Merry to be simply wonderful and haunting all at once. I think Merry could have told it all most accurately too. He, of all of them, could have cleared it up for everyone if he'd been able to speak of it and been given the chance. And Pippin and his bells. That one must have been quite a surprise to everyone upon his return. All grown up and yet still not of age. And that pride for Sam and all that he had become! He really completely changed his family's place and future simply by giving his loyalty and love and friendship. And the words mixed in through it all about poor, dear Frodo! As always, I love your writing! Author Reply: Thank you so, GW. I had to work the bells in, and Cathleen's knit piggy! Hope folks don't mind! My little brother would take off all his clothing except his T-shirts, which he couldn't get off or didn't mind wearing or something, sometimes as soon as he was dressed and we turned around to ready ourselves to go out shopping or to visit friends. Can't tell you how many times we'd have to dress him two or three times just get him out the door! Three living fathers who watched their sons come back profoundly changed; and one the rest all worried about, even if they didn't understand the what and why. Thanks so for the compliments and the feedback! | |