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| Reaping by Dreamflower | 12 Review(s) |
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| SurgicalSteel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/6/2006 |
| Wow, that was quite dark - but really powerful. I liked the way Ted kept seeing images of Folco, and I liked that he seemed to actually repent at the end, whispering "I'm sorry" to Folco's ghost?spirit? I enjoyed this. Author Reply: Yes, I think he did repent at the end, when he finally began to grasp what kind of suffering he had put someone else through. I wanted to leave it a bit ambiguous about Folco, as to whether that was his spirit, or if Ted was just seeing things. But either way, at least as he was dying he had something to give him a bit of hope. | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 2/6/2006 |
| Compassion from his victim and intended victim must have been a profound shock for Ted Sandyman. What a manner for him to end up in that shallow grave; and what a horrid end to the others and poor Clover. And what a way to learn the truth--what he could understand of it--of the half-orcs in the party of "Big Men." (Shivering violently) Author Reply: Ted could not understand compassion, and so he scorned it, and feared it. But when he began to suffer some of the same things he had put Folco through, he finally began to understand about other people's feelings. The shallow grave of course was necessary, as eventually his body is discovered. This story also ties in to a theme I had begun developing in some of my post-Quest fics, that banishment from the Shire was not necessarily a merciful punishment, for those banished fall prey to the predators beyond the Brandywine. And I think that given the brutality "orcishness" of their behavior, Saruman's half-orcs would have had that mark of evil from all of Morgoth's brood--the black blood. Of course, a good many of the ruffians were red-blooded enough, and did not have that excuse. | |