Dreamflower's Dribs and Drabs by Dreamflower
illyria · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
Wow, these are really very clever. I especially love the ones about Gandalf, Lobelia, Otho, and Pip and Merry with their pants ripped! :) Thank you for sharing these.
Author's reply
Thank you for the kind words! They were fun!
Lindelea · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
*laughing* very lovely indeed! I especially liked the "no needle to sew up the rip" and Lobelia's claim to fame. Thanks for the smile on a rushed morning, when I only signed on to print out a map to where we're going!
Author's reply
Thanks! Glad they gave you a giggle! Well, of course they had to rhyme. I kept thinking of GW's fic about the Ent-draught, LOL! And I couldn't resist Lobelia! (I know what you mean--I've done the exact same thing...)
harrowcat · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
I couldn't leave you to do all the work so how is this!!! There was once a lady called Arwen. The most lovely Elf, but then in love she did fall with the best man of all, the Elessar, the Estel of all men. Not very good I know but my very first try at putting something down on internet 'paper' *Blushes and sneaks off hoping nobody else reads reviews apart from the author!*
Author's reply
Hey! That's not bad! It scans and it rhymes--that's all anyone asks out of a limerick--and it makes sense, too! You did very well! (By the way, I usually read other people's reviews. I'm horribly nosy.)
Queen Galadriel · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
*grins* I love them! Especially Merry and Pippin and Lotho Pimple! LOL! God bless, Galadriel
Author's reply
Thank you! *grin* Did you know that there's only three words that rhyme with "pimple"? (simple, dimple and wimple.)
harrowcat · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
You are quite right Dreamflower - a giggle with every one. Great stuff. But if Strider has one then so should Arwen! And if Gandalf is so honoured then what about Elrond and Galadriel and Cirdan! And.......*chuckle*
Author's reply
*grin* Thank you! Oh my! That's a *lot* of limericks! I'll have to see if the muse cooperates or not.
Anso the Hobbit · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
Hehehe. These were really funny! I wish I had a limrick in response but my brain's too full of cotton at the moment. Great job! :D
Author's reply
Oh dear! Cotton in the brain! Is it Tom, Jolly, Nick or Nibs? LOL! Watch out, Merry might get jealous! *giggle* Glad you liked them!
demeter d · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
Absolutely delightful! Indeed, a nice tribute to Lobelia, and the "ranger who feared no danger"!Well crafted!
Author's reply
Thank you! Limericks are fun, but challenging! I had a good time with these.
Pearl Took · 20 September 2006 · Chapter 6: A Few Limericks
They gave a chuckle indeed!! I love Lotho's dimple!! And I love the tribute to Lobelia's change of heart. These were a wonderful start to my birthday!! *applause* *applause*
Author's reply
Well, Happy Birthday!! 8-) I'm glad that it pleased you!
Andrea · 10 April 2006 · Chapter 5: Tom Bombadil and the Four Travellers
With hearts all filled with gratitude they bid their hosts farewell-- And yet ‘tis not the end, for there is something more to tell-- How once again Tom Bombadil put them right when they’d gone wrong. But that is for another day and for yet another song! The Old Forest is a perilous place where hobbit-kind are strangers, But old Tom may there be found, to rescue them from dangers! Wonderful! I'm really impressed. You got the rythm of it perfectly! And to put it in the context of history with discussing if it came from Master Meriadoc or Thain Peregrin, well, that's pure Tolkien! Thank you, Dreamflower! P.S.: Will there be "yet another song"?
Author's reply
The rythm is difficult, but it just means constantly counting syllables. And I did want to make it seem as though it might fit--I could see Merry sitting down and writing such an account of their first adventure, and Pippin putting it to song, so that it would be passed down to future generations...
Larner · 10 April 2006 · Chapter 5: Tom Bombadil and the Four Travellers
Oh, Dreamflower, how well this fits into the Red Book's own usage, complete with the descriptions of its known origins and the consideration of possible companion works. How perfect this is!
Author's reply
Thank you! I am pleased that you like the way I presented it--I thought that the little historical note would be appropriate. As to "perfect"--well, I can see its flaws, but you make me hopeful that they are not so obvious to anyone else as they are to me, LOL!
Queen Galadriel · 10 April 2006 · Chapter 5: Tom Bombadil and the Four Travellers
Oh! This captures the very escence of jolly Tom. I always liked him, odd as he seems at a first glance, and reading this was almost as good as reading the chapter over again. :) Splendid, Dreamflower! God bless, Galadriel
Author's reply
Why thank you! The first time I read the book, umpteen years ago, I didn't much care for him--but now he's one of my very favorite of the characters. I'm so glad you liked it!
Kitty · 10 April 2006 · Chapter 5: Tom Bombadil and the Four Travellers
Dreamflower, I'm deeply impressed how you're able to put this part of the story into a song! And I can hear Pippin sing that, oh yes! The more so as it doesn't go into details of the more frightening part in the Barrow Downs, so it may not trigger too many unpleasant memories. And how fitting to have someone named Brandybuck-Gardner. With all the marrying between the children of Sam, Merry and Pippin and maybe some more cousins even hobbits will have a lively time to sort out the family trees some generations later ;-)
Author's reply
I'm pleased that you can imagine Pippin singing it. I've been very influenced by a lot of the Tolkien music I've been listening to lately. Truth is, I did want to continue with the Barrow-down encounter, but it was getting harder and harder to maintain the rhyme and scansion and still integrate canon into it, so I ended it by leaving things open for another one down the line. I figure there were not only Brandybuck-Gardners, but Gardner-Brandybucks as well, LOL!
harrowcat · 10 April 2006 · Chapter 5: Tom Bombadil and the Four Travellers
Oh well done Dreamflower. You have really caught the tone and rhythm and I like the way that you intersperse the Prof's own words.
Author's reply
The rhythm is difficult to maintain, but I did my best. I thought it worked well to intersperse his words, for he repeated them sometimes within his own work; also for it to be a telling of what happened, I liked to use them as the dialogue, especially where Tom actually slips into rhyme and rhythm as he speaks. Of course, Merry and Pip were stuck in the tree, but I'm quite sure that Frodo and Sam filled them both in on their rescue!
Anso the Hobbit · 27 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
That was a really wonderful tribute! What would we have done without Arda? Thank you for this. :D
Author's reply
What would we have done without it? I shudder to think!
San Antonio Rose · 25 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
Beautiful, beautiful tribute, Dreamflower. Thank you. *raises glass* To Arda!
Author's reply
*cheers!*
Queen Galadriel · 22 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
WOW! Dreamflower, I'm speechless! I know that's something that any author would appreciate, and I think Tolkien would. And that's an excellent way to thank those who maintain this site. I'd pick a favourite part, but I'd just be quoting the whole thing back to you! :) God bless, Galadriel
Author's reply
Thank you, dear! I just felt a tribute, both to the Professor and to our beloved Stories of Arda, was due for all the wonder that they have given to me.
Queen Galadriel · 21 March 2006 · Chapter 1: The Last of the Nine Remember
Beautiful and very powerful!
Author's reply
Thank you!
Raksha The Demon · 20 March 2006 · Chapter 2: 25 Rethe, S.R. 1422: The Three Travellers Remember
"The day the Ring went into the fire; The day the whole world was saved from darkness. In the Shire it’s just another fine day in spring." I particularly liked these last lines; showing the hobbits' mass innocence, a somewhat ironic commentary on their reclusive, provincial, and charming nature -hobbits are more concerned, as a rule, with nature's bounties and beauties than with great deeds. And thanks to the courage and sacrifice of one of their own, the majority of hobbits can maintain their innocence.
Author's reply
Why, thank you. I believe that you just summed up everything I wanted to show in this piece, so I am very glad to know you think that I succeeded.
Pearl Took · 20 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
"We who love her pay homage to the master storyteller." Amen! This is a wonderful tribute, and I love the layout :)
Author's reply
Thank you! Dribbles tend to do that--I love the effect it gives, visual as well as verbal.
Larner · 20 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
Aye, and so we do.
Author's reply
And I am so glad that we do. I hope that you've got something new up your sleeve soon! I miss having a new Larner tale on an almost daily basis.
shirebound · 20 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
A most beautiful and elegant tribute, Dreamflower!
Author's reply
Thank you. I feel the tribute is greatly deserved.
SlightlyTookish · 20 March 2006 · Chapter 4: For Arda
Ooh this is lovely! A wonderful testament to Arda and to writing fanfiction. :)
Author's reply
Thank you very much. Fanfiction is so much more than it seems on the surface, especially when it deals with a canon of such depth and richness as the world of JRRT.
Grey Wonderer · 26 December 2005 · Chapter 3: Two Yuletide Carols of the Shire
Enjoyed both the music and the lyrics. This were lovely! Both you and Lindelea have done a wonderful job on these Carols. When's the CD coming out?
Author's reply
Thank you very much! *grin* But I don't think we have enough material yet for a CD, LOL!
Larner · 16 December 2005 · Chapter 3: Two Yuletide Carols of the Shire
Ah, how wonderful to see original songs for Yule. Love them.
Author's reply
Thank you! I thought that hobbits needed some traditional seasonal songs!
Queen Galadriel · 15 December 2005 · Chapter 3: Two Yuletide Carols of the Shire
Oh, what beautiful carols! They both sound so hobbity, especially the second. Leave it to the Shirefolk to think of the "good beer!" :-) The first was cheerful and yet moving. And the tune for the second was wonderful too! Lindelia is amazing, isn't she? I was looking for something to do with Yule, so I'm very glad you posted these! God bless...and season's greetings, Galadriel
Author's reply
Thank you! I wanted them to sound "hobbity" and not like imitation Christmas carols, yet at the same time, I wanted them to have that "Christmas-y" "feel" to them. Lindelea has done a remarkable job! She truly is amazing!