Andrea
· 23 February 2009
· Chapter 1: A Meeting on Tol Eressëa
She took one step towards Frodo, staring at him in astonishment, and said: “Tûk? But his eyes were brown.”
How wonderful!
So Frodo and Bilbo get the chance to meet the legendary "fairy" - although she's not exactly a fairy, but a Maia.
And not only she recognises Frodo's similarities to Tûk, but also Frodo finds her "hobbity" features familiar. Whom does he recognise, I wonder? His grandmother? His mother? Or one of his aunts? It's all possible, for Mirime is related to them all. This is really fascinating :)
Author's reply
*grin* Yep! This bunny bit me in the middle of the night last night, and decided to just put itself ahead of everything else!
That's always been my theory about her! After all if Melian could fall for an Elf, why couldn't Mirime fall for a hobbit?
As to whom she resembles, my personal thought is Primula, but there will also be echoes of Esmeralda, Mirabella, Belladonna and others.
Celeritas
· 23 February 2009
· Chapter 1: A Meeting on Tol Eressëa
Oh, this is SO cool! (And it explains to an extent what happened after Tuk died.) I imagine as hobbit afficionados Gandalf and Mirime would have had a lot in common, so it was nice to see her introduced as "sister." And of course the fact that she recognizes him immediately, and that Frodo and Bilbo just begin to pick up on something before she spills.
And I see you've introduced the non-brown eyecolor as well--it seems to fit in nicely with your descriptions of 3rd-Age hobbits since in Tolkien the races that are upper on the hierarchy tend to have dominant alleles.
More, please!
Author's reply
Yes, they did have a lot in common, and I am hoping that more and more history will be spilled as we go along. I'm just going to have to work to keep it in 300 word chunks.
Glad you picked up on the eye-color thing--I thought you might, LOL!
Celeritas
· 23 February 2009
· Chapter 0: Prologue: Behind the Rumour
Oh, so you took the name! And you're doing more work with it! AWESOME. *grins in a madcap fashion*
Author's reply
Yes, I did! And it occurred to me that the other word, closer to "Diamond" could have been her hobbity name.
This is going to be interesting to work on, I think! *grins back*
And thank you ever so much for the name!
Larner
· 23 February 2009
· Chapter 1: A Meeting on Tol Eressëa
Hooray! So wonderful! So you, too, are now becoming untroubled by tribbles? Heh! Beautiful! And she is the first Diamond! A fitting name, considering the name of the next Took's bride to be.
Thank you for this so far!
Author's reply
It occurred to me the other day that the first *named* female on the Took family tree was an "Adamanta", and the last one was "Diamond". And then I began to wonder about *other* possible Diamonds through the generations...
Larner
· 23 February 2009
· Chapter 0: Prologue: Behind the Rumour
You have beaten me to it! Have been turning this theme over and over in my mind to write next once I get done with "Stirring Rings" (supposing, of course, I manage to ever do so! Heh!). And I see you have included the Maia foremother as well! Wonderful! And our Frodo gets to meet her? Oh, how joyous!
Author's reply
Yes, this one just kind of insisted on being written; I had no plans to do it anytime soon, and it just jumped ahead in line, a bunny with no manners whatsoever!