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| Between Green Door and Gold Ring by Larner | 129 Review(s) |
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| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 3/27/2009 |
| Miserable selfish thing. I find it hard to imagine that she could feel grief for the baby...but I guess that's harsh, since she did change later. Author Reply: She may have been as self-centered as possible, but in the end she did find redemption. I am just so glad for both hers and Frodo's sakes that she did! And it was just plain FUN to imagine the original source of that umbrella of hers! | |
| Queen Galadriel | Reviewed Chapter: 1 on 3/27/2009 |
| Oo, that's chilling. And Bilbo never knew. Author Reply: Indeed. I've always imagined the Ring had something to do with the decline of the Baggins family! No, he never knew. Thanks so very much! | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/15/2009 |
| Wonderful look at Sam's parents and the deep love they share! Author Reply: I am so glad you liked this, Kitty! To have given the world Sam they had to be special folk themselves; and who better to learn how to love his spouse and family from than Hamfast and Bell? Thanks so very much! | |
| Celeritas | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/14/2009 |
| Hurrah for underappreciated pairings! Thank you so much for writing this; I love seeing hobbits in love. Author Reply: Originally written for the A_L_E_C December challenge, to truly be anonymous it's probably best to touch on situations I've not examined before. There are three divisions in the A_L_E_C challenges, for General stories, stories that focus on Heterosexual pairings, and then for stories with slash elements. I tend to find most slash stories involving characters given heterosexual relationships by the original author to be offensive unless they are satirical in nature or MOST delicately written indeed. Therefore when I do put a decided sexual theme into a story, it tends to be between those characters I am reasonably certain HAD such a relationship to start with. And I truly believe that Sam Gamgee had to have had a marvelous example in marital love on all levels in his own parents--don't you agree? Am so glad you enjoyed this! | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/13/2009 |
| I liked the way you portrayed the Hobbit enjoyment of children and other homely pleasures in life. Author Reply: Thank you so, Linda. There must have been such love between these two! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 1/10/2009 |
| her heart filled with her love for him It's wonderful to see the Gamgees enraptured with one another, and wanting to fill their household with even more children to love. Author Reply: I'm so glad you like it, Shirebound. And we know that Sam had to learn love from example, after all! Thank you! | |
| Soledad | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/12/2008 |
| You beat me with the Bilbo's return story - and will I ever manage to continue Elf-root? - but my, was this funny! I loved everyone giving Lobelia the cold shoulder... and how her thievery has brought unexpected fruit, after all. How on EArth do you manage to write so much? I so envy you for this gift. Author Reply: Well, will you manage to complete Elf-root? Come onn! Write it! I just write too much, although the two challenge pieces have been finished for almost a month, just sitting there, and I had to write the first one posted here cuz I had written the second one.... I need to get back into edit mode now.... Thanks, Soledad. | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/12/2008 |
| Second, he no longer seemed to think he was required to be predictable. I do love Bilbo! Frodo is my soul-mate but Bilbo is a lovely role model too for me. :) I do long to be unpredictable and have adventures. Namarie, God bless, Antane :) Author Reply: Just make certain to keep your integrity intact as Bilbo did! Heh! That will see you through! | |
| Kitty | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/12/2008 |
| Well, Bilbo did lose his good reputation after his adventure, but he didn’t deserve *these* relatives, no matter how disreputable he was in their eyes (I’ll not mention that I see the matter a bit different ;-)). I can’t help it, but every time I see her sneaking around and stealing or slandering someone, I’m practically fuming. Well, at least she got caught this time – yay for Bess having no qualms about searching her bodice! But I’m not happy about the spoons in the umbrella. Sometimes I get the feeling Lobelia has stolen together half of her household! Did she send these things back to the true owners after her release from the Lockholes, after getting back what could be saved from the ruffians, I wonder? This makes me wonder how Aragorn would have dealt with her if things had been different. She’d probably driven even him to distraction *shakes head* Author Reply: NO ONE deserves relatives like Otho and Lobelia! No one! We know that those silver spoons went missing--now we know the specifics of it! As for how Aragorn would have dealt with her, that is indeed a subject for speculation. | |
| Linda Hoyland | Reviewed Chapter: 2 on 8/11/2008 |
| I'm sue Lobelia has a fixation on spoons! I loved the way you descibed the now popular view of Bilbo. Author Reply: She certainly seemed to have such a fixation. And we know that Bilbo was nowhere as popular after his adventure as before, of course. Thanks so for the feedback. | |