This is a lovely series.

Being the lazy person that I am, I waited until the last little gem to leave a review.
Thank you for sharing these wonderful bits with us, that come from your incredible imagination.

Another very good one. The half-practical, half-fanciful son, and the entirely practical, but loving father. Hamfast packing the whistle first made poignant by under-emphesis. Very good feature of drabbles, that. Detail about stitching lulls us slightly, for what seems to be quite a suprise for Sam.

I'm uncertain about the significance of the flowers-they've always been my idea of a standard gift, applicable to anyone, but for Sam, and quite possibly you too, they've a different significance. Was it a good or a bad thing Sam went back to giving flowers? Either way, its pretty deep.

One of the only problems with these drabbles is that there's a bit too little info sometimes-'Gift' is a case in point, where I wasn't very sure who was speaking.

I haven't got a livejournal myself, but your drabble there, 'Pitiless' was very believable and nasty, and the two most recent about Sam and Pippin were well-done and sweet. My candidate for most deserving fic to expand would be 'The Ringbearer and the Rose'-are you thinking of having Frodo or Rosie talk to some more characters? 'West of the moon' is a good archive, so bang honours for getting on there. In your opinion, could I send them any of my stuff? I'm writing a story next about Bill the pony-have you, by any chance, got some advice for writing him? Thanks very much.

This is a pretty sweet drabble, 'long ride and she was only seven'-nice understated suffering.
Chapter three, which I reveiwed already when it was Bag End at night, is one the best yet. The bits about Sam's handerkerchief and hat were really touching, but maybe 'discern' sounded to grown-up. 'precarious' is all right, Sam himself isn't being precarious. It'd be unfair to Frodo as well if Bilbo took Sam and not him, but 'unfair to Hamfast' is a good enough front for all the reasons. All the points Bilbo talks about are got over very well.
I've been rather too intimidated to reveiw these drabbles for quite some time. I might reveiw one every third day?

Another perfect Sam voice.

This one really made me smile (and I needed to smile) Sam's being looked after without even realising it when he's the one who's usually caring for other people. I like that Merry and Pippin know Sam well enough not to help and fuss over him outright but be subtle about it so Sam doesn't notice.

And it explains where the other hobbits were while we were watching Frodo talk to Gloin and everyone else at the high table.

I've always loved the line in the Fellowship where Sam is 'saying good bye' to the barrels in the cellar and this is a very nice run up to it. Going through everything that ever happened in Bag End and all it meant to him in his lifetime, basically Sam saying good bye to Bag End.

The Memory of Ents is beautiful! As is all of them, but having Sam relate it to himself, and then having 'And not one of them saw the green eyes that watched them go. '
*weeps* This is wonderful!!

Yes, I loved the Elfhelm one! I didn't realize it was Eowyn for an embarassing paragraph or two, though. :P
I can see how much you like Sam-- he finds himself into a lot of these little bunnies, doesn't he? :)
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Hi. I haven't read this for awhile, but I'm glad I've had a chance to get caught up. I loved them all, and it was wonderful how characterized each person in the different chapters. Solider of Gondor was my favourite, poignantly accurate but uplifting at the same time. Great work!

Trust me to get here in time for the end. This was a very interesting idea and the ranges of viewpoints are wonderful. I do so love looking at the little-known characters.
I liked 'The Decree' because it's such an interesting idea that had never even began to cross my mind and that point Reggar made at the end is a very good one and makes me wonder why we don't do it the hobbit way.
I also particularly liked 'Faramir and Pippin' if just for the last line. It could have been read as regretful and sad, but that wasn't how I read it. I saw it as Faramir suddenly realising something, like he had just left the cooker on at home and it added a humourous quality that I enjoyed.
a lovely selection of writings.

This would be an interesting relationship to explore, although not as interesting to my mind as that in #11. On the other hand, I always enjoy a paternal Bilbo characterization.
I will certainly begin frequenting your LJ.
PS - Pretty Good Year is an entire AU with many authors involved. Mary Borsellino's essay Expecting You Since the Spring is worth reading if you are writing Rosie whether you are interested in PGY or not.

This deserves to be developed into a story. What does Ted try? How does Sam react? Do they eventually reconcile and establish some sort of rough-hewn equity, which would certainly be the normal hobbit preference for dealing with conflict? Or has Ted been so humanized that he can't let go of his resentment? Does Frodo, being Acting Deputy Mayor, sort it out? What does Rosie do?

Go, Sam!
You have his voice perfect here.

Very strong although I don't think it's necessarily the best of the lot. (I'd vote for The Decree, with its originality and its paradoxical feeling of inevitable historicity.)
Your post-quest Frodo always seems to have so totally hit the wall and fallen in a heap beside it that it is hard to imagine him doing as much as Tolkien credited him with during those last few months in the Shire. I always see that period as the near-culmination of a spiritual transformation. Of course PTSD, like anything else, can be part of a spiritual transformation. His really rotten times must grab you.