Another Moment of your Time by Larner
UTfrog · 30 September 2018 · Chapter 91: A Small Gift
Lovely story. You catch the characters well in everyday moments. I want to thank you with all my heart for your hard work that has led to so many hours of reading pleasure for me.
Author's reply
And thank you as well. Life is stressful right now, and I want to hide so much of the time. Thanks for making me feel so positive a resource or you! Needed that.
shirebound · 30 September 2018 · Chapter 91: A Small Gift
Such a small gift, yet significant in many ways. Lovely little story.
Author's reply
Sometimes the small, useful gifts can have the deepest meanings for us! Thanks, Shirebound.
Andrea · 6 August 2018 · Chapter 90: Thistles and Beets
"And you know what? I think as we have some new friends!" Great story! I must say that Rosie's plan worked out quite nicely. But Zeno and Thistle were not like some other narrow-minded hobbits we met in your stories. They respected the birthday tradition and they let the others tell them about Frodo and Bilbo without bluntly interrupting them. So maybe they even believed part of what they heard :-)
Author's reply
Yes, that is a blessing. And it's also always a blessing when one makes a new friend or two. Thanks so very much, Andrea!
KathyG · 30 July 2018 · Chapter 90: Thistles and Beets
Be nice if I did, but no. I live in Oklahoma. So you live in Oregon or Maine, then?
Author's reply
Washington state. My former college roommate lives just across the Columbia River on the east side of Portland, Oregon. Was surprised to see a story set in Oregon, and as I've driven past the state park you mention it seemed logical you were familiar with the state, too. Lived in Tulsa as a very small child myself, but have lived in western Washington most of my life.
KathyG · 30 July 2018 · Chapter 90: Thistles and Beets
It's great that Sam and Rosie were able to make friends with Zeno and Thistle! And that was quite a party they had in honor of Bilbo and Frodo. I'm so glad that Aragorn wrote to them!
Author's reply
The Master tells us in the Appendices that the residents of the Shire found Sam's tradition of celebrating Frodo's birthday was as questionable as Frodo's for drinking a toast to Bilbo at his own birthday parties, and that the joint birthday of Bilbo and Frodo was celebrated in Gondor at least as "Ring Day." It thus follows that the Travellers and the King all kept the memory of Bilbo and especially Frodo alive in this way all of their lives. Again, thanks so much for your comments, Kathy! Do you live in the Portland area? I visit it frequently, and often have lunch with Lindelea during my visits--she now lives in Vancouver, just across the river. I'd be glad to meet you the next time I'm down with time to spare.
Tari · 1 July 2018 · Chapter 89: Frodo's Caprice
Well done.
Author's reply
Ah, but thank you!
Antane · 20 May 2018 · Chapter 89: Frodo's Caprice
This got buried in my inbox so here am I at last reading and enjoying it. Love the idea of Frodo and Sam sitting in the chair. :) Namarie, God bless, Antane :)
Author's reply
And apparently your response got buried in mine! Thanks so!
Andrea · 21 April 2018 · Chapter 89: Frodo's Caprice
[...]but it was simply accepted that in his own way their usually sensible Mayor was almost as eccentric as had been the two previous Masters of Bag End That was a great little story! Thank you very much and although I am very late: Happy belated birthday :-)
Author's reply
I obviously got very behind in responding to reviews to this tale. I had a wonderful one! Thanks so very much, and am glad you enjoyed this.
shirebound · 16 April 2018 · Chapter 89: Frodo's Caprice
What a lovely and dignified destiny for such a beloved tree. I hope your birthday was wonderful.
Author's reply
We know that the loss of so many beloved trees were a blow to the hearts of the returning Travellers, and particularly to Frodo and Sam. How deeply both must have been hurt by the loss of the Hill's roof tree as well as the Party Tree. I so hope that the roof tree might have known such a fate! And I loved my birthday this year! It was wonderful meeting with Lindelea and one of her three delightful daughters as I did, and getting to hear Billy Boyd as we did. I only grieve that Sean Astin was too ill to also appear.
Kaylee Arafinwiel · 3 January 2018 · Chapter 53: A Little Surreptitious Reading
*laughs* Oh, Dora, Dora, Dora...dear Miss Dora is such a wonderfully delightful Hobbitess. I'm glad she was there for Frodo, he needed a maternal figure in Hobbiton as well as in Buckland. And isn't it just like her to surreptitiously read The Book! I wonder whether Bilbo ever let her get the rest of the story! I'm sure I've read it before, but I enjoyed reading this again! Kaylee Arafinwiel
Author's reply
It is indeed a question as to whether or not she ever learned the rest of the story. But I'm certain she'd be very upset to see proper manners were not shown to Bilbo in his own house! Life's been very weird, so please forgive the lateness to responding to your comment.
Calien · 27 July 2017 · Chapter 88: The Ringbearer's Share
I had to read this story... for the love of my favourite Ringbearer, of course! It's so funny! Aragorn had surprised me, all the characters seem crazy about mushrooms! I look at "Honor Avenged", I will leave a review. And this is an other collection of stories that I must read... with "Moments in Time", of course.
Author's reply
I had fun writing this, I admit. Am glad it gave you a laugh! Thanks so, Calien!
Andrea · 22 July 2017 · Chapter 88: The Ringbearer's Share
LOL!!! Rascal indeed, but very funny and a good distraction for Frodo.
Author's reply
Oh, yes, a nice distraction for Frodo! Heh! Thanks, Andrea.
Lindelea · 21 July 2017 · Chapter 88: The Ringbearer's Share
Hahahaha ho! That was good for a belly laugh! (Quite the accomplishment for first thing in the morning, I assure you.) He didn’t turn his head as he glanced toward Frodo and Sam, whose ponies were scrabbling up the far bank. Sneaky Pip! And Aragorn the jokester, a side of him that is delightful to see!
Author's reply
I like to think that now and then Aragorn got the chance to get his own back at the Hobbits, and particularly Frodo. Heh!
Andrea · 15 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Wow! That was really wonderful! And the use of language is as if the Professor himself had written the words. P.S.: Why do I always think of "Nate" when I read about the Lord of Mandos ;-)
Author's reply
Thank you so--it is so great an honor to be so compared to the Master himself! (Fiondil has made his mark upon us, hasn't he? Heh!)
julchen11 · 13 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
This is soooo beautiful, my dear. What a lovely gift for and by a wonderful friend. Thanks so much for sharing!
Author's reply
And thank you so, Julchen!
Febobe · 10 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Oh, lovely!
Author's reply
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
addie71 · 9 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Beautiful!
Author's reply
Thank you so, Addie!
Elwen of the Hidden Valley · 9 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Wow! I could hear them singing. Wonderful and so uplifting.
Author's reply
Oh, I'm so honored you could hear the lay being sung in your imagination. Thanks so much!
shirebound · 9 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Oh, What a marvelous imagining of this song! You've captured the joy, and the facts woven with legend-aborning. I just love it. Thank you for such a spirit-lifting birthday gift!
Author's reply
I'm so glad you appreciated it, Shirebound. There is joy here, and I hope those who heard it felt the awe at the accomplishment achieved by these two dedicated individuals. And I so hope your birthday was as joyful as mine!
UTfrog · 9 April 2017 · Chapter 87: Excerpts from "Frodo of the Nine Fingers"
Thank you!
Author's reply
And thank you, too, UTfrog!
Andrea · 17 January 2017 · Chapter 86: Self Justification
That's our Frodo! Never give up the hope that people might change. Otis CAN change, of course, but does he really want to? I'm not so sure.
Author's reply
I, too, have my doubts as to Otis wanting to change--or at least not yet. Thanks so, Andrea!
Tari · 9 January 2017 · Chapter 86: Self Justification
What a hateful Hobbit. I'm on the Thain's side. In fact, I would have kicked him out of the Shire.
Author's reply
He isn't a pleasant sort, is he? Perhaps he did deserve exile; but as with Frodo feeling Gollum had deserved death but was advised that even the wise cannot see all ends, it is always possible even Otis has some good office to perform, even if he does not intend it to be a good office at the time.
6336 · 7 January 2017 · Chapter 86: Self Justification
Oh, ouch, no fun! Hope you are feeling better. Cats is cats, one minute they love you to death and the next they don't want to be any where near you, until that is, you play the can opener for them! Lynda
Author's reply
Cello has never forgiven me for bringing small dogs into his realm. Since the last guide dog died, he's been the supreme ruler, and he feels I have somehow betrayed him. Heh! My cats tolerate Brendi and other dogs well so far. I do have a sweet bunch of animals here. Now, I await the fetching of the new pup next week.
6336 · 5 January 2017 · Chapter 86: Self Justification
As ye sow so shall ye reap. I think Otis got a lot less than he deserved, true banishment was probably more like it but Frodo always tries to see the best in people and hopes that they will improve, some how I can't see this happening with Otis! By the way thanks for the Christmas card, sorry I wasn't able to respond, the Holidays were more than hectic and not improved by a fall Christmas Eve that did my arthritic back no good. Have just been mewed at by Miss Kitty, who is in from her midmorning purrtrol and is wet, so I guess it must be raining. Huggs, Lynda
Author's reply
It is hard to predict how Otis will go from here, but had he stayed within a close distance of his sister and her family I have no doubt he would have continued to imagine that somehow he deserved their happiness; hopefully the removal to a distant part of the Shire will shake him out of his own "discomfort zone" sufficiently to start a change for better behavior, although I doubt anything will truly get through his feelings of entitlement to get him to deal with others realistically. Sorry for the fall; I had one, too, after our December eighth snowfall. Somehow I managed to break a rib with my own elbow on that one! I'm certain this fall did your back no good at all! I am visiting a friend from college, and her cat, who used to love me, is sittig in the corner of the room, glaring at my dog in his pen and threatening me as I try to return the laptop to its table. He has never forgiven me for bringing my poms into HIS household! Why he decided to come into this room where he knows my dogs abide while visiting I have no idea, but Cello has his own ideas on where he intends to spend the night, apparently! Heh!
Kaylee Arafinwiel · 5 January 2017 · Chapter 86: Self Justification
O, a happy new year to you Larner, and also the Professor's birthday, belatedly! I do hope that the trevails have gone away and that your travels are/have been quite safe! *hugs* This is a well crafted tale (as I always expect from you, dear friend :) ) and quite worthy of the Professor's birthday! I do think Tolkien would certainly approve of Frodo's justice, even as Paladin does, although Otis certainly does not! Heh! Yes, send him packing I say! I would have seen him taken to Aragorn, if it were me, by now...Frodo certainly has a calmer temper than me at least in this case! (Donut's contribution, bless my seagull-muse, is "No fish for him!" Yes Donut, no fish for Otis! Hah! Especially not with that dear little fishing lure. I'm so glad it - and all else - will be returned to those who have lost them! Do you know, I found myself wishing Atto Fiondil could've read this tale. I'm sure he would have enjoyed it. :) Always your devoted reader, Kaylee
Author's reply
Donut is lucky to be with you rather than here, not that we're that far from the Columbia River where other gulls skim over the water even now. It's blessed cold, and we've been promised sleet and ice, which is not a fun prospect. Got ill on my four-hour trip south, have to wait two more weeks for Narcissa to be ready to leave the kennel where she was born, and my friend's cat has decided to stake his claim on his home by coming into the guest room and trying to chase Brendi and me out of it, hissing and growling. Brendi has a healthy respect for Cello's capability to claw and possibly bite, but is behaving well, while I am nursing a clawed hand at the moment, inflicted when I tried to put the laptop back on the table where I keep it when I visit. Silly cat! Brendi would clean his face for him if he was allowed--Brendi does this service to our cats all the time! As for Otis, he undoubtedly deserves far worse than he's getting, but at least he's having to face the fact that it's his own fault he's in the pickle he's in. And I, too, wish Fiondil were still here! Thanks so much!