March Frost by SilverMoonLady
Grey Wonderer · 3 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
“Go back to whatever grave holds your rotted bones and trouble us no more!” Estella is shocked to hear her trembling voice cry out, unbidden, into the silence. Loved that from Estella. Shows just exactly why Merry loves her so much. This was just wonderful. So glad to have noticed it on my little visit over here. Great stuff, as always!
Author's reply
Thank you! Happy to have caught your eye and given satisfaction:)
Nancy Brooke · 3 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
Ah! Excellent ... how clever and compassionate of you to focus on Merry's guilt rather than his fear: it would be more lasting. I also thought Estella's fear and the palpable dread a wonderful and incisive metaphor on marraige - how we take our partner's burdens for our own, good and ill. Well, Well done!!
Author's reply
Thank you very much! Yes, when we are lucky, our partnerships become an incredible source of shared strength and comfort:) Glad that showed through:)
Bejai · 2 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
Wow. Y'know, I almost never read hobbit stories, (am more of an elfy person myself) but clicked on this one and thought I might was well, and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for this glimpse into something I never thought of before! Well done.
Author's reply
Thank you for your review! It's nice to see that even an 'elfy' person can get into a little piece like this and enjoy it. I have been known to browse the 'elfy' section myself, so feel free to skip the line again; we hobbits do not bite (much)!:))
Larner · 2 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
Very well written, very evocative, and much in keeping with my own thoughts on the terrors all four would still suffer afterwards.
Author's reply
Thank you! Always happy to hear from someone else that sees beneath the apparent carefree surface of our lads and can appreciate them as three dimensional characters whose lives continue past the final page, changed and affected by the amazing events they were a part of.
Lindelea · 1 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
Ah yes, very powerfully written. I scarcely drew breath from start to finish. Thanks!
Author's reply
Thank you! Glad it worked well:)
songspinner · 1 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
This is quite powerful as a concept - Estella's love and fierce protectiveness fighting off the Dark is a wonderful idea. Having it from her p.o.v., and so realistically through her thoughts, worked well.
Author's reply
Thanks! I rather wanted to look at what *she* was having to deal with, and just how real somebody else's nightmare can be for those that love them. I'm glad the pov and present tense communicated that. Thanks again for the review!
Dreamflower · 1 February 2005 · Chapter 1: March Frost
I reviewed this on LJ, and then I come here and find it again. I just want to say it is so amazing, and that much more compelling since I have been reading the chapters about Merry and the Shadow in Lindelea's "At the End of His Rope". It just jolts me to think of Merry, fighting the Black Shadow, over and over, just as Frodo had to do, yet no chance of sailing away to escape it for him... and yet I do not doubt that he *did* have to fight that Shadow for the rest of his life...
Author's reply
I then must thank you doubly, for twice the kindness of leaving two reviews! :) It is said that in dreams, we face and sometimes resolve what we cannot relive in waking life. Everyone processes trauma differently, depending on our temperament and circumstances, and for some, there is no option of falling apart or entirely escaping the memory or the pain. Dwelling on it all simply wasn't a viable option, but all that stuff still waited beneath the cheerful surface... It was bound to come out in some way! :) But I do think Merry will recover, in time, and dream awful things no more, but until then, thank goodness he has Estella to understand. :)