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| The Hidden Days of Healing by Linda Hoyland | 42 Review(s) |
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| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 3/31/2006 |
| Am rereading this and enjoying it again, Linda. Still some problems getting the quotation marks in the right place, but I feel most of the editing has definitely been to the good. Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review.I'm honoured that you consider this worth rereading.I'm trying to edit the quotation marks, but so many are wrong, I'm getting goggle eyed with them ! | |
| Lyn | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/31/2006 |
| Excellent! Just one comment: The wagon came to a juddering halt This is a new word for me (juddering), yet I can't help thinking you might have meant to put "shuddering". Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review. "Juddering" is a word, according to the Online dictionary,"jud·dered, jud·der·ing, jud·ders To shake rapidly or spasmodically; vibrate conspicuously: "Edith would watch her wrestling with words, her thin little body juddering with the effort to unlock them" Anita Brookner. n. A rapid or spasmodic shaking. [Perhaps j(erk)1 + (sh)udder.]" Maybe "shuddering" would have been a better choice,though. | |
| hanci | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| That was awesome! Sad and poetic. Why the warning? I wouldn't guess it was Éomer coming, it's good it was him. I love your Gimli, but all your characters are great, their thoughts and reactions very...right. Poor guys, they can only watch and hope... But they have good ideas. I haven't heard about this supperstition about ravens, guess it comes handy now, especially thanks to Saruman. I kept thinking "and now he will wake up" again and again - I hope their tears will finally do it. And thank you for mentioning those little things like latrines or insect (sometimes it seems there are no such things in middle-earth). Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review and very kind comments. The warning was in case readers found the death scene distressing. I like to try to make M-e and its people as realistic as possible. | |
| Lady Saruman | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| Haha, I am triumphant! SKILLS! But then again, not really, because I listed almost everybody. As I've said before, the list is very random and so the fact that Halbarad is dead is known to me. But Eomer arriving seems like the most unlikely thing that happened. I had expected it to be some Elven healer or something, but instead came another person who is just as helpless as the others. Hobbit babies lying in the sun? That's a kinda strange remedy, in my opinion. Since Legolas has followed the advice that Sam gave him, I don't think that this remedy will cure Aragorn at all. Everyone's reaction when they saw what Legolas was doing. Eomer, in his grief, can find some sense. Everyone thought that Legolas was going crazy to undress the so called 'almost dead' king. So they did think that the king had died after all. They never seem to stick to hope, but I guess it'll be hopeless that they will continue to think that Aragorn will live. Angst all around. But why would it be under the adult warning box? Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review . The warning was in case readers found the death scene distressing. When i first started writing LOTR stories, I thought of having them mainly about Aragorn and Eomer, but then decided to write about Faramir instead. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| It's good to see Eomer has come to offer what help he can. I hope what they are doing contributes to Aragorn's recovery. Sam's clasp on his hand seems more likely to anchor him than most things. And I think they should sing! (Well, probably Legolas. Gimli and Eomer might not be up on the right kind of song, and the hobbits are rather too unwell.) Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review.Singing might be a good idea !I am hoping that eomer can help too ! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 3/30/2006 |
| Well, the hair-braiding and flower-crowning at least has some symbolic value, ditto the anointing - perhaps the Valar have been taking a nap after the long struggle of engineering Sauron's downfall. But still, after all the effort it must have taken for them to get Aragorn to this point (what with his forefathers' penchant for being orc-bait and Arathorn's waiting forty years after maturity to sire children, not to mention Aragorn's own frequent self-endangerment), you'd think Nienna, or Este, or some One, would wake up and smell the odor-of-dying-King of Men...And do something! Though Legolas and Sam should have been combing the meadow for some athelas; there's probably some growing wild in Ithilien... Where's Ioreth when you really need her? Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review .I think it's high time too the Valar did something for the one who seems to be chosen by them !Athelas sounds like a good idea ! Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review .I think it's high time too the Valar did something for the one who seems to be chosen by them !Athelas sounds like a good idea ! | |
| Lady Saruman | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/28/2006 |
| The journey proved to be quite taxing for everyone, especially for Pippin and Sam. And thankfully, they have arrived, but whether that rider is a protagonist or antagonist, we readers will have to find out tomorrow or whatnot. This has got to be the shortest review I've ever sent. But, to prolong it, I'll make a list of all the possible riders so that when you reveal the person, I'll get it right!!!! Haha just kidding. lets see... Warning: this list is VERY random and so some people will not make sense at all. -Halbarad -Glorfindel (I have a big feeling about him being the rider) -Elladan -Elrohir -Elrond -Arwen -Celeborn -Galadriel -Thranduil -Eomer -Eowyn -Faramir (Big feeling here too) -Gandalf -One of the healers (Both elven and human) I probably would've missed somebody, I don't know...hmmm... Well, I have a strong hunch that it might be one of the elven folk, or Faramir. I don't know why, it's just my instinct is telling me so. Will I get it wrong? I shall find out tomorrow! -Lady Saruman 8) Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review. Your guess is on the list !It can't be Halbarad as he is dead and Faramir and Eowyn are still not well enough,all will be revealed soon. | |
| hanci | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/28/2006 |
| Gimli is great - “For once, I don’t think a Dwarf could do better!” It's kind of funny that they are hiding from their own driver. But it's not funny that he is prepared to flee, instead of fight (not that I think it will be necessary). Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review. I don't think much of the driver at all, maybe he was chosen because he is stupid? | |
| hanci | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/28/2006 |
| His brothers leave to organise the journey and leave the healing to Legolas. No wonder Gimli is not happy. I guess next time they won't place Frodo so near to Pippin... Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review and welcome to the story.I'm sure Gimli thinks the Elves quite mad ! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/28/2006 |
| I am glad that I know who is coming! I love the bit where Pippin is pondering the qualities of a king Linda. Great stuff. Author Reply: Many thanks for your much appreciated review. It is good of you to read this story twice,I hope you'll find this version more polished than the first. I always see Pippin as the Hobbit closest to Aragorn and most interested in who he is,for some reason. | |