You know I love the hobbits for their common sense but it can be taken too far! Poor Thorin with all his angst, surrounded by mischievous wizards and down-to-earth hobbits!
I do like that this was legitimately exasperating to more than one reader! Because that is a flip side to that down-to-earthness, is sometimes an inability to realize that this is Really Important Stuff...
Oh yes, very well described. Just like Sauron in the beginning. Was it him? I'd think not but I won't count on it.
I confess I've deviated from the movies here and gone with the Mouth of Sauron (not him, but his emissary) being beautiful instead of nasty-looking, because Tolkien was fond of beautiful evil now and then...
I seriously wonder what the Rohirrim would say about Petunia as a name for a noble steed.
Oh, this reminds me that since I have one available in a few chapters he really should have an opinion! :) Thank you!
And YES, he really does have a point about elves and men screwing it up with the Ring, doesn't he? I definitely sympathize with his frustrations there...
Augh, I want to put the next chapter up SO MUCH, but I also really must get the next Heroes chapter going (shopping for action figures!) ^-^
Ah nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I suspected this in the last chapter but this!
You KNOW it has to eat at him, poor Thorin!
Why is he surprised? It's on Thorin's every About me page.
*breaks up laughing* Now I'm imagining his Tumblr bio: "Ruler of Erebor, King Under the Mountain. Will probably ruin your day if you let me. *sigh*"
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Re: Ooooh yay new chapter!
Date: 2014-06-11 01:59 pm (UTC)I do like that this was legitimately exasperating to more than one reader! Because that is a flip side to that down-to-earthness, is sometimes an inability to realize that this is Really Important Stuff...
Oh yes, very well described. Just like Sauron in the beginning. Was it him? I'd think not but I won't count on it.
I confess I've deviated from the movies here and gone with the Mouth of Sauron (not him, but his emissary) being beautiful instead of nasty-looking, because Tolkien was fond of beautiful evil now and then...
I seriously wonder what the Rohirrim would say about Petunia as a name for a noble steed.
Oh, this reminds me that since I have one available in a few chapters he really should have an opinion! :) Thank you!
And YES, he really does have a point about elves and men screwing it up with the Ring, doesn't he? I definitely sympathize with his frustrations there...
Augh, I want to put the next chapter up SO MUCH, but I also really must get the next Heroes chapter going (shopping for action figures!) ^-^
Ah nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I suspected this in the last chapter but this!
You KNOW it has to eat at him, poor Thorin!
Why is he surprised? It's on Thorin's every About me page.
*breaks up laughing* Now I'm imagining his Tumblr bio: "Ruler of Erebor, King Under the Mountain. Will probably ruin your day if you let me. *sigh*"