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| The Acceptable Sacrifice by Larner | 11 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 99 on 3/10/2006 |
| Wow, what an intense chapter! “I bet it was proud to go so the rest of you didn’t have to, though,” she added. He straightened and looked at her, barely realizing that the last of the haze was dissipating. Her eyes were clear and bright and very earnest. “Why would it be proud?” he asked her. “Because it knew that you’re a wonderful person an’ everybody loves you, and it wanted the rest of you to have the chance to remember that." Wisdom from the lips of children, indeed. I think Syclamen and Dianthus are my favourites of your original children. Frodo proves himself a very good story-teller here-aside from the fact that he left a very large and important portion of the story out, but I expected that from the start-and it seems as if he has had a lot of experience telling stories to children. The wording and everything is perfect there. And of course I like Syclamen's insistence on hearing the whole story. The last little farewell between them was very sweet and touching. Poor Merry and Pippin! It really was wrong in Frodo not to tell them, though I can understand his not telling Sam. It didn't make it any kinder in the end, and maybe even made the hurt deeper; but Frodo will be Frodo, dying or no. Well, I think maybe you've set the record here, being just one short of a hundred chapters. Wow! :) God bless, Galadriel Author Reply: With the last chapter today it makes exactly a hundred chapters, although there is the foreword of sorts that's on this site and there will be author's notes to follow. Cyclamen is indeed giving Frodo one more lesson he needs to prepare for his own healing, and I did try to write it so it's both a story for children and it's a catharsis of sorts for Frodo as well. I've always thought of Frodo as the story teller of the Shire after Bilbo, but more likely to be more fully honest in his stories than Bilbo was. That he was good with children seemed a given, considering how close he came to be with Merry and Pippin, Freddy and Folco. He ought not to have treated Merry, Pippin, and Sam as he did, I always felt. However, as this is the way Tolkien himself wrote it, that's the way I did, too. The only reason I could figure for not telling Sam had to be to keep him from seeking to accompany him, and so I've written it this way throughout my stories. Anyway, am glad you have followed this so faithfully, Galadriel. | |