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| Don't Panic! by Boz4PM | 155 Review(s) |
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| daw the minstrel | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/5/2005 |
| This was hilarious! And authentic too. The mutual horror of Penny and Halbarad was very entertaining. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/5/2005 |
| Oh I'm *SO* glad you accepted Nilmandra's invitation to post here. This really is an exceptional story, and deserves to be made an exception of! The day she recc'ed it, I ended up wasting the entire day reading it, and as much of the next one as you have posted! I really wanted to review then, but I don't have a clue how to post comments on your other site. I look forward to reading it again at a more leisurely and enjoyable pace!! Author Reply: Well, thank you for that warm welcome and for taking the time to read the fic. Glad you enjoyed it. | |
| TithenFeredir | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/5/2005 |
| Oh no, talk about worst case scenario. Penny has landed in a nest of Tolkien freaks!! Priceless! ~TF | |
| TithenFeredir | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/5/2005 |
| This is really a very good exercise in looking at both sides from an outsider's perspective. I loved the bit where Halbarad was very sensibly taking care of his knife while Penny assumed his action was evidence of his being some kind of bloodthirsty lunatic. Good story! ~TF | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/5/2005 |
| *grin* Somehow I doubt combs are really that heavy and big one couldn’t take one out in the wilds! Our dear Halbarad is a bit too spartan, isn’t he? Bree is going to be a shock to Penny – dwarves and hobbits! And the state of the town! Odd reconstruction play, really! No wonder she is so confused. | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 12/5/2005 |
| He could hear Gildor or Glorfindel whinging at him even now in the back of his mind, “Gah! Halbarad, there is no salt in this stew! And would it kill you to carry an onion or two in your pack?” Onions? A Ranger carrying onions?! Bloody elves! *ROFL!!* I fear I’m on the side of the bloody elves! It is funny how Penny and Halbarad are so very annoyed with each other because neither can understand the strange behaviour of the other, and usually not without reason, at least out of their own perspective. And I think I wouldn’t have been able to cope with the rabbit, either. Author Reply: I think we're all on the side of the bloody elves in this case. ;) To you and the others who have reviewed in kind, you might be entertained by a wonderful two line review someone left on this fic at ff.net: "Rangers have no onions. Rangers need no onions." *rofl* I have turned that into a sig banner it made me laugh so much. Thank you for reading and taking the time to review. :) | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/5/2005 |
| Oh, I am so glad to see this here! After Nilmandra recommended it, I’d spend every spare minute of three very entertaining days reading all of it at OSA, and I’ll enjoy to read it here again. After reading Diana Gabaldon, my friends and I had thought a bit about the question of how to cope with being thrown back in time, and you did a great job in describing Penny’s difficulties and all that. Gildor and Halbarad must certainly have thougt her completely crazy, yelling around as she did, but in the 21th century it would be the best thing to do, I suppose. It was very nice of Halbarad to pick her up and to help her. And poor Penny, it’s horrible to find herself in this strange place, facing an armed stranger whose language she can’t understand and not being sure what he wants to do with her! Author Reply: Well, indeed. All too often authors seem to forget just how different in simple reactions to a situation would be in Middle-earth. It helps having read the books, of course, but either the Mary-Sues react ridiculously and no other character picks them up on it, or the canon characters themselves act OOC thanks to authors bringing their modern values, viewpoints and reactions into play as they write. I would not dream of suggesting I managed it, but I do try and am aware of it as an issue - which is better than not at all, I guess. :) Thanks, also, for the welcome and reading this thing for a second time. | |
| TithenFeredir | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 12/5/2005 |
| Well, you had me at, "Die, oh Mary Sue, spawn of Morgoth." Too cute. This should be very entertaining! ~TF | |
| Daynawayna | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/5/2005 |
| Wow! This is just amazing Boz! Very well done so far! I'm glad they let you post this... it's VERY enjoyable and entertaining... and educational. You really thought this out and it shows... I never even considered that a Ranger would smell... but of course, he would! And the sights and smells of the town are right, too; especially the 'sewer'. I'm very impressed and can't wait for more. And just wondering... this isn't a Mary-Sue because she's not going to "fall in love/get someone to fall for her, etc." and such, correct? Author Reply: this isn't a Mary-Sue because she's not going to "fall in love/get someone to fall for her, etc." and such, correct? Well, I am not going to say 'never' nor am I going to say 'definitely' - if only because the story is on-going in a sequel at the moment and this is one of the two major questions coming from the readers: namely, does Penny stay in Middle-earth and (if she does) will she find romance? So forgive me if I don't answer that at all, one way or the other - wait and see, is all I can say. ;) However, she will not fall for the Fellowship nor they for her, she will not become a 'tenth walker', she will not try and save people, she is not a superb fighter or angst-ridden and thus in need of 'healing' from Legolas or anyone else, she will not fight in battles, she is not some long-lost relative of a major canon character, etc, etc. She is an ordinary English woman in an extraordinary situation, that is all. I hope I have managed to convey that in this fic. The ultimate goal of this fic was realism - in all its (sometimes bitter, but hopefully often funny) glory. Some have thought it was 'non-Mary-Sue' first, but that's not quite the case. By realism it automatically becomes the opposite of a Mary-Sue, and when I go for realism, if I can also make a point of deliberately doing something 'un-Sueish' as well, then that's a definite bonus in helping me make plot decisions. Hope that all makes some kind of sense. :) Glad you like it so far - and thanks for taking the time to read it, let alone review. | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/5/2005 |
| That had been ill news indeed that Gildor had brought him: the Nine riding once more. He shook his head. And now strange incomprehensible women appearing from nowhere. *snork* This is proceeding nicely! I, unlike Bodkin, have not read this elsewhere, so I am all the more looking forward to the next update. The only jarring note is that I doubt that water from a water-skin would taste all that fresh and sweet. To my recollection, there would be a tang of leathery taste, and the water would not taste "cool and fresh", no matter how delectable the spring he filled the skin from was. Having "roughed it" in my youth am finding this story a blast. (As I sit in my heated home with a cup of steaming tea at my elbow, anticipating hot breakfast) Author Reply: Thank you for that comment - as and when I get a chance to edit (I am in the throes of the sequel at the moment and have limited computer time), I will change that bit. :) Glad you are enjoying it so far. | |