This story is a delight, so far! I'm adding you to my friends so I don't miss the next installment -- I hope you don't mind.
I particularly love the detail (and the author notes!) This is the Shire brought to full economic and social Life, with all the things which would keep hobbits happy and busy spread out for us to delight in.
Thank you so much, and please do friend. I shall reciprocate - I love your drabble pieces!
I'm glad that you like the detail and the A/N as there will be more yet. Quite a lot more... This story is ruling my life and leaving room for little else!
Oh, I don't know how I missed this, but somehow I did. You weave such wonderful, loving detail! This story is fascinating, and I'm enjoying it so much!
Thank you so much for commenting! I'm glad you like the details because they just seem to be flowing copiously every time I sit down to write another section or two!
More will be along soon, I hope.
And I adore your icon - such a smugly happy moggy! Is he yours?
Oh, smocking! My mother did this for special-occasion dresses when I was very small - they took months to do. Yes, very much a labour of love and when I wore them she would glow with pride when asked about them. Thanks for reminding me of that - I agree with the others, Tiriel, your level of detail and realism is astounding. I quite feel I have been attending this fair along with our lads
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Thank you, Maura, for such generous praise. I'm blushing like mad here!
Re: the smocking - My mum used to do it on dresses for us - not ideal for a tomboy, but I fondly remember one in several shades of blue on white, and being sad when it went to my younger sister because I had grown out of it. It came as a surprise to discover (reading/researching, though not as easily way back then, Thomas Hardy for O level, as I recall) that smocks were originally such practical garments, and that the human (female, it has to be said!) desire to embellish took the practical and translated it into the pretty.
I'm so pleased you enjoyed Sam's moment. I really enjoy writing the intimacy between them when it isn't yet sexual, because I don't see theirs as a relationship that is dependent on sex - didn't see the sex at all for mumble, mumble years. Fun though it is to get them there (and as un-canon as I can be) that far deeper connection has always been what matters. I just like to give them a little joy along the way
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I love this stage of intimacy too! Particularly when it is done with this level of nuance - it's not even "will they have sex," it's "will their inner visions of this relationship ever merge and blossom together." They could have sex and that could still not happen. Though I have faith in you that it will
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It wasn't until the October before Two Towers was released that I found Fanfic and Slash, but I still feel that the sex is simply the icing on the already extremely rich cake. (Perhaps also the marzipan and the sugar roses and the little hobbit figures and the satin bow and...)
Although I am extremely glad that in your marvelous little universes, they do tend to become lovers...
Thank you - though tend to is more generous than I deserve. I have written only one story in which they do not; I hate it and will never post it. My mission is to give them eventual joy - there are plenty of others doling out unremitting angst. (Also, I don't do angst very well - let the cobbler stick to her last!)
How did I miss this when you posted it??? Yikes! I'm really glad that notabluemaia pointed it out!
I'm having such fun reading this: it's as entrancing as going to the fair was when I was small, and everything there was fresh and new and wonderful. (It's still fun these days--but not quite as thrillingly so.) Your descriptions are wonderfully vivid; I can almost smell the baked goods and the flowers and the animals (not to mention that bacon!), and see the needlework and other handicrafts.
Loved the Author's Notes, again, too.
Thank you so much for sharing this--and I'm looking forward to seeing more when it's finished!
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I particularly love the detail (and the author notes!) This is the Shire brought to full economic and social Life, with all the things which would keep hobbits happy and busy spread out for us to delight in.
Thank you!
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I'm glad that you like the detail and the A/N as there will be more yet. Quite a lot more... This story is ruling my life and leaving room for little else!
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*waiting patiently for more*
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More will be along soon, I hope.
And I adore your icon - such a smugly happy moggy! Is he yours?
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Re: the smocking - My mum used to do it on dresses for us - not ideal for a tomboy, but I fondly remember one in several shades of blue on white, and being sad when it went to my younger sister because I had grown out of it. It came as a surprise to discover (reading/researching, though not as easily way back then, Thomas Hardy for O level, as I recall) that smocks were originally such practical garments, and that the human (female, it has to be said!) desire to embellish took the practical and translated it into the pretty.
I'm so pleased you enjoyed Sam's moment. I really enjoy writing the intimacy between them when it isn't yet sexual, because I don't see theirs as a relationship that is dependent on sex - didn't see the sex at all for mumble, mumble years. Fun though it is to get them there (and as un-canon as I can be) that far deeper connection has always been what matters. I just like to give them a little joy along the way ( ... )
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Although I am extremely glad that in your marvelous little universes, they do tend to become lovers...
Thank you - though tend to is more generous than I deserve. I have written only one story in which they do not; I hate it and will never post it. My mission is to give them eventual joy - there are plenty of others doling out unremitting angst. (Also, I don't do angst very well - let the cobbler stick to her last!)
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I'm having such fun reading this: it's as entrancing as going to the fair was when I was small, and everything there was fresh and new and wonderful. (It's still fun these days--but not quite as thrillingly so.) Your descriptions are wonderfully vivid; I can almost smell the baked goods and the flowers and the animals (not to mention that bacon!), and see the needlework and other handicrafts.
Loved the Author's Notes, again, too.
Thank you so much for sharing this--and I'm looking forward to seeing more when it's finished!
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