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| The Coin's Other Face by Larner | 13 Review(s) |
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| Baggins Babe | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/1/2007 |
| You have so brilliantly captured the difference between Lotho and Frodo and Sam. It was sweet that they slightly envied each other, and I loved Frodo's greed for books. I definitely recognise that one! Author Reply: Yes, a definite difference between the nature of Lotho and those of his hated cousin and the gardener. And I do believe Sam and Frodo probably envied one another many times, although Sam did indeed inherit a place in the love and acceptance of the denizens of many of those in the great homes of the Shire, and in his own time was undoubtedly as welcome in Buckland and the Tooklands as Frodo ever was. And considering I, too, am a bibliophile I, also appreciate Frodo's lust for books. I can go broke with a visit to a bookstore! Heh! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/1/2007 |
| I have known that envy/jealousy that I can't just stay up and not have to worry about needing to get up in the morning and have all day to do whatever I want. Oh, Sam, I know how you feel - though I doubt your heart ever really felt those things. And of course, Rose and Sam's 'lust' was not lust at all but love and that's how it could wait - thank you for that reinforcement of waiting until the time was right to fully enjoy true love. Oh, my dearest Frodo, a book glutton just like me! Love that part. And love the pride Frodo and Sam have in each other - what a wonderful ending. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Most of us here can more easily feel with Frodo and Sam than with Lotho, I think. There are good and bad expressions of all emotions; Sam and Frodo mostly know the good expressions, while Lotho--well, he's Lotho, after all. And I, too, am a book glutton as you put it. I think many of us on this site appreciate that aspect of Frodo's nature. Heh! | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 7/1/2007 |
| Quite the difference to Lotho! Save for Frodo's Ring-induced lust for women the worst the two managed to do was to envy each other a bit - and I think that is pretty normal, as everybody is sometimes envious about something. And particularly the second part was telling - they experienced these sins in not doing it, but in watching Lotho and Ted and helping their victims. That is so much more like Frodo and Sam! Author Reply: Which is why I entitled this story as I did--they are both a marvelous contrast to Lotho and Ted. And even Frodo's lust isn't truly his own failing, but a distortion of his nature brought about by the Ring. Thanks so much for the feedback. | |