Dreamflower · 1 December 2006 · Chapter 1: And So It Began
Oh goodness, Pearl! You're going to write it--or, well, I guess you *have*, as you are posting it! Now I'm all a-dither, and wondering how the easy-going Brandybucks and the spirited Tooks managed to devolve into these rather stuffy and pompous excuses for hobbits. They most certainly need something to shake them up! But I have a feeling that in some ways Jebbin and Other may have a harder Quest to accomplish than Merry and Pippin did. (Not harder than Frodo did, certainly, but harder than his companions.) It may not be as physically dangerous, but it looks as though it will certainly be as dangerous in other ways if the Master of Buckland thinks he has the authority to order parents to disown their own children! Why, I can't imagine anything *less* hobbity! I hope perhaps *he* may be haunted by the shades of his illustrious ancestors--kind of like Scrooge was!
Author's reply
Well . . . ah . . . "have" is too strong a word as I'm feart to say that at this time this is all that is written. Very unlike me as I usually wait till I have about 5 chapters ready to go before I start posting longer stories, that way I have a cushion. But whether it's the mood I'm in or the story itself - this one kept niggling to be posted. I'm not even quite shure what is coming next. This is a story that I'm having to wrestle away from my muse, she (he?) isn't giving it up easily. I think there had been stuffy, pompous Masters and Thains all along the way. We Know Lalia was a pain for certain. And hobbits in general can go bad, think Lobelia, Lotho, Ted Sandyman. Wealth and power have a tendancy to do that. Macimas II is a bad'un. Both you and Bodkin mention him needing a visit from certain forebears . . . That has gotten sent along to the muse, we'll see what comes of it :-) They definitely *will* be in the story though :-)