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| The Acceptable Sacrifice by Larner | 15 Review(s) |
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| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 81 on 2/16/2006 |
| What a lovely wedding for Sam and Rosie !I loved the link's with the King's wedding and that everyone had their say.It was also nice to think of Glorfindel visiting. Author Reply: I suspect that Glorfindel and others from Rivendell made a few trips back and forth to Mithlond regarding the progress of the ship Cirdan was building for the trip, and so once he saw Sam along one of the Elf routes it was likely he'd stop to find out what was on his mind. That somehow Aragorn would find a way to influence Sam's wedding seemed logical, and that they'd incorporate Dunedain traditions into a Shire wedding seemed likely as well, particularly if Frodo were conducting the ceremony. Am so glad you liked it! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 81 on 2/15/2006 |
| Now that was a wedding! And Frodo performed it. Very nice. Glad to be there. Too bad I couldn't sample the deviled eggs myself - I love those. :) Glad to see the Presence Light there. Sorry that Frodo was pained even now, but glad (and surprised) that Sam didn't notice, but of course he had other things on his mind! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: At the moment Sam is focused completely on the changes this day has wrought. He may notice in a few days, and may have noticed more than he yet realizes. But the fact remains that he has just been well and truly married and is still feeling the effects of that change. And glad you, too, liked the Presence Light. | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 81 on 2/15/2006 |
| The Dúnedain say that the use of the many colors in the cord reflects all the moods you will know, the kinds of days you will know, the days of joy and the days of frustration, the days of peace and the days of grief. I know, however, that the love you are willing to continue to share with one another will aid you in getting through them all. What an utterly beautiful ceremony, Larner. I feel as if I was there. Author Reply: The mixture of the practicality of the Shire and the spirituality of the Dunedain, come together to join two special Hobbits through the intermediacy of the third, Elvish one. So glad you found it beautiful. Wanted to make Sam and Rosie's marriage a special one even by Shire standards. | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 81 on 2/15/2006 |
| Oh, what a beautiful wedding-very bittersweet. If only Frodo could have had this day without pain, though. It's so sad to see him already beginning to say good-bye, in his way. I must say I'll be sorry to see this story end--but then there's more to look forward to in future! :) God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: Unfortunately pain comes alongside joy, and as Roger Whittaker sings in one of his songs, the first time we say hello is the beginning of the final goodbye. Frodo has lost so much and has more he will lose before the end, and at last he finally begins truly finding himself again. Frodo is also reminding Sam that in taking Rosie as wife, this relationship takes precedence even before the relationship he's shared with Frodo, and he wants Sam to be well and whole and for as long as he can enjoy it and the Shire might need him. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 81 on 2/15/2006 |
| This was a wonderful long chapter! I was just about to turn the computer off, when one last look showed me it was up! I'm so glad. Sam's meeting with Glorfindel in the Woody End was wonderful. Of old, Sam would never have been so "presumptious" as to make a request of Elves, much less expect his request to be met. It is one sign of just how much he's grown in stature and confidence. Frodo did indeed overdo things the day before the wedding, it is clear. Yet he was able to enjoy himself while it lasted. I loved all the details of the preparations, especially the bit about the cat getting into the kitchen. I could just see that, LOL! I liked that Sam had Merry as well as Tom stand with him at the wedding. Once more we see how he's grown and changed. The "old" pre-Quest Sam might still have asked Mr. Frodo to perform the ceremony. But he would *never* have asked the heir to Buckland to stand with him. The ceremony was lovely and touching. More complex than the one I've envisioned, yet very hobbity, all the same. I really like that no one got flustered, and actually expected objections at that point in the ceremony--quite practical, and as I said, hobbity. I really dislike it when a hobbit wedding seems to imitate a modern-day wedding. This had its own elements--and any of the "non-hobbity" traditions included *clearly* did not derive from a RL wedding, but from the Travellers' exposure to the wider world and to the customs of the Men they had been among. I was sorry to see that Frodo apparently suffered a mild MRI during the ceremony. His bad heart is finally catching up to him in more obvious ways. It's that, isn't it, that will make his journey to Buckland difficult? Author Reply: On our wedding day the friend who drove Tony to the church (of all things, his former father-in-law who found he respected Tony more than his own daughter) got lost and had to hire a cab to lead him to St. Paul's. I know how flustered folks can get as all begins to come together and the inevitable problems creep in and seem overwhelming. But the cat who seems to creep around the edges of my stories managed to get its own taste of the wedding feast. Sam has grown indeed, and knows that he can ask Elves and the Master's Heir to do favors for him, and that they will be honored to do so. He's grown into his place as a Lord of all the Free Peoples, and it will soon be obvious to far more that this is true. Yes, Frodo is having MRIs now. His heart was strengthened by the healing offered him in Gondor, but he's now been through two of the times of memory incursion, and such things are not easy to endure and have left his heart more vulnerable once more. Some aspects appear to be present in all marriage ceremonies--the recognition of bride and groom and the questions of reasons to not to allow the joining, and the formal declaration, through word or deed, of the intent to join, and finally the actual means of joining, whether it's being physically bound, sharing the blessing offered for the marriage, the exchange of tokens, leaping the flames or over the broomstick, or whatever. I tried to take those universal aspects and make them uniquely Dunedain or Hobbity. That people in a Hobbit wedding would actually examine possible objections to the wedding seemed possible and, as you noted, Hobbity; and who else but Odo Proudfoot to voice the one for Sam and Rose's wedding? The objection is voiced, and it is made plain that bride, groom, and bride's family have already considered it and have dealt with it and don't see it as a roadblock, and therefore it is dropped. But I think that Hobbits would not see such objections as threats but as practical aspects of the marriage that need to be dealt with before the wedding is formalized. I'm certain there were many others who felt that Rosie ought to be concerned that her new bridegroom might take it into his head to abandon her again sometime. Anyway, I do seem better able to continue my more normal posting schedule, and once again I'm grateful to the Kid. | |