Beruthiel
· 18 March 2005
· Chapter 3: A Matter of Patience
Heehee. Aunt Reginard.
Pippin could indeed use some quashing. Though I can see why he wouldn't want to be stuck in a room underground all week.
Author's reply
I certainly wouldn't want to be stuck in a room underground all week, either. It has always interested me that hobbits live *in* the earth but don't *stay* there (except maybe to sleep?). And yet I just read a very interesting news story about a man who designed an underground house, lit in daytime by skylights. The rooms are all round! Evidently that's a very strong shape, in engineering terms.
Bodkin
· 18 March 2005
· Chapter 3: A Matter of Patience
'That's Aunt Reginard, to you,' the Steward said, and left the room, allowing himself to chuckle only after he'd closed the door behind him.
Love that! Reginard is such a superb eminence grise - he can do it all, with one hand tied behind his back, but he doesn't want to be the figurehead. Pippin is VERY lucky to have him. And, of course, Ferdi (MFH).
Author's reply
That is one of my favourite "Regi" lines.
Regi is the perfect "Man Friday" but I don't think he has any aspirations to anything greater. (And one of these days I'm really going to have to read "Robinson Crusoe" and stop relying on second-hand information.)
eminence grise?
eminence = high?
Bodkin
· 17 March 2005
· Chapter 2: Tea with the Tooks
Go, Mardi! You and Woodruff. Long-suffering healers the pair of you.
Though I don't quite go with the general obsession for seedcake. Although, it could be a way of sneaking necessary drugs into the Thain, perhaps. Poppy-seed cake for one.
Author's reply
KWYM. I don't know where Pippin got his liking for seedcake. Maybe from Bilbo. I certainly cannot stand the stuff.
Thanks!
FantasyFan
· 15 March 2005
· Chapter 1: Interrupted Plans
Have we identified the very first review I sent you? How fun!
This series of interconnected stories are among my favorites. I do admire the way your looking at the same events from multiple points of view creates a rich tapestry of characterization and emotion. It's good to read them again.
Author's reply
I think it might be the very first, yes!
It's fun to look at events from several perspectives. Guess I keep revisiting favourite parts of a story the same way I keep re-reading the books I like best.
Thanks!