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| Between Green Door and Gold Ring by Larner | 129 Review(s) |
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| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 7/1/2014 |
| Snakes in the grass they are for keeping more of Bilbo's possessions. I hope he finds out. P. S. My birthday is tomorrow. Hint. Hint. Author Reply: I doubt that Otho learned all of his acquisitive nature from Lobelia, and we know that Longo dreamed of the day that his family should provide family heads for both the Sackvilles and the Bagginses. Poor Bilbo--trying to find out where everything that has disappeared went to! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 7/1/2014 |
| "For someone who says he doesn’t believe in Elves and who has always spoken badly of Dwarvish work, you seem to like it all well enough to take what you please of it from my hole, Uncle Longo." I love that so much! Good for Bilbo. Author Reply: So glad you enjoyed it, Shirebound. It can be trying having such self-centered relatives. Heh! And Bilbo didn't deserve to come home to such a revelation as to learn he'd been declared dead and that several things had disappeared before he got there while Lobelia and Otho were preparing to move into his home and to take it over. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 22 on 7/1/2014 |
| LOLOL! Thank you, dear! What fun: very enjoyable to see Longo and Otho get their comeuppance! I love it! Author Reply: You are so welcome, Dreamflower! It is fun to believe that Otho didn't fall all that far from the tree. Heh! | |
| Antane | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 5/14/2014 |
| I liked these fun rhymes! Namarie, God bless, Antane :) | |
| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 4/30/2014 |
| As one who is not normally fond of poetry, I have to tell you this was terrific. Author Reply: I'm pleased this pleased you, Tari. Thanks! | |
| Lindelea | Reviewed Chapter: 21 on 4/25/2014 |
| I can just see Lobelia shudder as Bilbo sings this song -- especially when he calls himself a "man"! (And I can see Bilbo's delight shining through...) Author Reply: She has just been denied the one smial in the Shire she desires, and now---- Thanks so! | |
| shirebound | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 4/20/2013 |
| Wow, Lobelia is as strategic as a general planning a battle. Nicely written. Author Reply: So glad you agree with me as to her commitment to her goal. Thank you so, Shirebound! | |
| Kaylee Arafinwiel | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 4/20/2013 |
| Larner, Lobelia should have known better, for we all know what came of this! So is this how Lotho was conceived? Kaylee Author Reply: No, it's not how Lotho was conceived--it was a different child who was born many years before Lotho and Frodo, and who didn't survive. Its tale is told earlier in this collection, in stories one and two. I'd originally thought for it to perhaps be Lotho, until I was reminded that Lotho wasn't that old. And, yes, Lobelia should have known better and undoubtedly did, but she was desperate to somehow marry into the Baggins family and its wealth and respectability--and the possibility that perhaps she might end up as the wife to the Baggins and as the Mistress of Bag End, as long as Bilbo wouldn't marry her and wasn't allowed to think of marrying anyone else! Thanks so very much! | |
| Kaylee Arafinwiel | Reviewed Chapter: 19 on 4/20/2013 |
| O Larner, how lovely and bittersweet! I do love this tale, and it makes me sad even so, knowing what will come of it... (Drogo and Primula appear in my belated birthday fic for you, posted over at Gfic. :) ) I'm glad to see them here, though, so happy and carefree for now. Kaylee Author Reply: And thank you again for that story, of course! I suspect there were many romantic, pleasant drifts down the Brandywine by these two before the fateful night when for some reason their boat overturned. I doubt that they regretted any of them in the end. It's been wonderful speculating on how they might have begun going out on the Brandywine, and how it may have helped strengthen their marriage and their commitment to one another, even if in the end it proved fatal. Thank you so very much, Kaylee! | |
| Andrea | Reviewed Chapter: 20 on 3/3/2013 |
| She has definitely not the least bit of love for Bilbo or Drogo or Otho. She is only interested in premises and titles and would marry anyone to get them! Poor Otho! He must have been thrown off his guard by that "nightly surprise". Author Reply: I suspect that she and Otho came to rely on their marriage, but that he fairly quickly realized there wasn't much in the way of true love in their union. And I suspect that he was a bit overwhelmed to find her appearing so ardent that first time they walked out together. It's rather fun to speculate how the two of them ended up married, after all! Thanks so very much, Andrea! | |