Pippin to the rescue! Leave it to the Big Folk to ignore the obvious.

Loved the exchange between Smagnu and Grutfley!

*sniff, sniff*! Poor, poor, Merry!

Hello! I finally made it back! Finding where I left off wasn't hard at all. However, I did forget about Frodo's dilemma regarding Pippin's relationship to the Ring, and also Legolas' injury, so I re-read it for good measure and for recap.

Poor Merry -- I want to weep for his little broken body. :-( After al this time, I'm *still* sitting on the edge of my seat to see what happens...

I stopped back here to reread this chapter and realized I never reviewed the first time around! Shame on me! So although I know I have missed half of what I wanted to say the first time just because I didn't review right off the bat here it is anyway!

I really liked you writing about Sauron searching trough time/space/matter and the description of Bloggin/Gandalf right there in the middle of it all.

I'm really glad to see Frodo and Pippin have kind of dealt with their difference because they had such wonderful intervention! I'm really glad that Eroo is helpig them out, perhaps he can just toss the Ring in for them?...I thought not ;)

Oh dear, I hope Bloggin is allright he is certainly one of my favorite characters! Well I must run for now I AM looking forward to more and don't know why I did't review last time!

Ah... There's nothing like returning to an old favorite after several years. And with new chapters! *squees*

But, my, has time gone by. I'm glad to see that, even though it has been so long, you are still working on completing this lovely story. Too often have many given up in the middle of their own creations (myself included; some muse Hitori turned out to be... and now he's yelling at me...). And it's looks as though you're about to wrap this one up soon; a shame, because then you wouldn't have reached Marigold's goal of 150 chapters.

Huzzah for imaginary friends! I'll have to admit, you had me worried there for a moment, what with Frodo acting all Gollum-like. Ain't divine intervention grand? Now all that's left is to fix Pippin's little speech problem. Oh, and that ring quest thing they're supposed to take care of.

And, of course, I'm still waiting for Eowyn to sort out her feelings and tell Faramir to just kiss her and stop acting like such a jealous ninny. But, knowing your writing, it'll still be a while. *le sigh*

As before, I eagerly await the next chapter and eventual conclusion.

Dear Llinos & Marigold

Over the last 3 weeks I've read over the whole story Recaptured + Continued and I loved it.
I know you do not hear/read this the first time but since I did not review at all I must do it at least once. It was certainly one of the best fanfiction I've read, and for sure the longest. I was one of many silent readers for sure, and even if not all people review, to read such a long story is a comment of itself I guess.

I found it very very creative at parts like the blindness and deafness of the hobbits and it was really cute how they would protect each other and how Legolas became like their big brother. I mostly loved, like it was my favourite part, the action in Barad-Dur, an ugly Uruk that is not cruel but cute and loves the hobbits as evryone else on middle-earth, if not even more! I so adored Smagnu and I love you for creating him!
After the hobbits and Legolas he is definitly my favourite character.
And that Grutfley was starting to become frightened at the wide-eyed Pippin, just like the other superstituos Orcs later, I really laughed at that...
I also want to mention how much I liked the sequences of the memories of the hobbits...that was mostly brilliant, for example the meeting of Pippin and Bilbo when they both played hide-and-seek ;) *LOL*
Or not to mention Pippins school-story, or the Merry-covers-Sam-by-getting-drunk-story! I really loved you there!

I found the whole story with the mind talking quite interesting, but it tended to be exaggerated at times...just like the poppy story line, but it was amusing most of the part.
I didnt like the existence of slash at all though, but I very much appreaciated the warning of those chapters at the beginning of them and that they did not effect the rest of the story...
And I so had wished that Pippin had not been abused there from Grutfley, even though it was almost never mentioned afterwards, its like the worst thing Pippin had to endure...por Pippin, I hate you for having someone do this to him!

Very much I laughed as I read about the cleaving of the power of the ring, and how you would write from its perspective, just like you wrote from almost everyone's perspective, it gave the whole plot a good flavour from everything.
Here I really want to thank you so much for having written this story, I guess it had been a part of your life to write it for quite a time and for other people to read it but they all enjoyed it, Iam sure, just like I did.
I REALLY hope we can all wish not in vain that it will be continued soon, it dont seem to be going on for so much longer now that Frodo and Pippin must be at the very edge of mount doom =)
I bow to thy writing hand!

I can't remember if I reviewed this chapter or not, but I just got to thinking about this fic and thought I'd wander by. I was thinking to myself today about Grutfley. He's always been my favorite just because he's that much more Orkish than Smagnu. I been wondering what he's been doing absent his buddy, and how he and the other Orcs and Goblins who've found themselves amongst Aragorn's forces are making out. Are they behaving themselves? What about the human warriors around them?

Man, oh man. I always wait for your updates, and they're never enough! I'm glad you have a good idea where this is going. I can't wait to find out. :)

As always, brilliant! I loved the Eru twist, and am really glad for the intervention to help our poor struggling little dears. Ha, and what more can I say about Bloggin? I think he really deserves some credit.

I'll be looking forward to your next update, of course.

Damn! Always getting my universes confused(!)
Can't wait to see where the plot develops, it's been a very surprising tale. Look after Bloggin, he been through a lot for a little orc & you've made him the most entertaining 'possesion by another being' I've ever come across.
On a completely different subject - congratulations on becoming a Grandmother-to-be (hug)

Hah.

*As he recovered he realised he needed to explain the situation to his two fierce guardians before they killed each other.*

In our Tolkien literature class on Friday (I am assisting in the class) we introduced the students to the literary concept of "understatement". Ought to have introduced them to you!

"Of all the orcs in Mordor..." Was thinking much the same thing. Wonderful weaving you do, lovely tapestry. Amazing doesn't half-cover it.

His mind had been nagging at him for some time now, but Bloggin had been studiously trying to ignore it.
My mind does that often. (BTW, don't know what ff-net will make of the italics codes. It very unkindly undid my Gollumly "dessert" with many many s's in a string, rendering it "desert" with the implication that not only is Gollum filthy, smelly, lacking in social graces and dreadfully wanting in basic hygiene, but the creature cannot spell. So if it does something odd, the quote was supposed to be in italics.)

Oi, Blog! That was pretty good!

(So glad to read author's notes indicating that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Eagerly awaiting more.)

Home with sick little one, who has just awakened from a nap, so must go.

Hah. Wandering ones have not yet returned. Must be having desert, precious. But will they bring desert home with them, precious? Chocolate fishes? (heck, would settle for chocolate cream pie)

Eroo. Eru. Very interesting coincidence.

Eroo makes me think of the faerie folk for some reason. A cousin of sorts, to Pippin, who watches over him like his hobbitish cousins?

Ah, Sam, nice to see you. And nice to hear Merry sounding so back-to-himself.

Speaking of back-to-themselves, wandering ones have come in. No time for newest chapter.

Best to you and yours,
Lin

Have had no time for nudging or much else, lately, but when I got the notification for the newest chapter it just kept nagging at me, and nagging...

At last, dh took little ones out to eat (under 12s eat free on Saturday, with adult meal purchase, at local family restaurant!) and I was able to sneak onto fanfic-net after writing an on-deadline newsletter article...

Most exciting and excellent action. Thank you for the recap at the top, it has been too long since I've read and might have been muddled without (and no time to go back and catch up--for they'll be home any time. Er. Must hurry and finish this review and hopefully read another chapter.)

Majdi tugs at the heartstrings, if that isn't too odd a thing to say. Seeking redemption, on his last day in life, or at least that's his plan.

Poor Merry. I'm nearly as confused as he is, and without anywhere near as much reason to be.

Now, really, Faramir. Down, boy. You simply cannot be giving credence to... Eowyn? and a Dwarf? Surely they can explain all this. It is not what it looks like. *g* (holding hands on the first date, eh? mild stuff, but perhaps mores were more constrained in those days.)

"is you actualitilly insides of Smag's littlel orcses Bloggin?"
"I dursen't knows what yous talking about, Master Pippin Sir Your Worship."
(you know, if they polish their act, they might just take it on the road and play to packed houses)

When the crossbow bolt arrived, I knew who was behind it. Go me.

But I had no idea that Frodo was behind Pippin's disappearance until you said so. So thanks for saying so.

And they're not back yet. (Perhaps they're having dessert? Perhaps they'll bring me back a piece of pie?)

So on to the next chapter.

See? I promised you a nice, long, rambling review just as soon as I had time to read the chapter. Better very late than never, as I always say.

Amazing. This is incredible, and not at all what I expected.

aw short chappie. but cute. somehow i just knew the ring(s) would have to be put back together. eroo, so adorable. i cant remember having an imaginary friend... oh well. and maybe your daughter WAS channeling tolkien...who knows? hehe

finally! smaggie and captain guy have an understanding! *claps hands* and poor bloggin, is he ok? (well, im sure you'll answer that in the next chappie) ok, and eroo is helping them GET to orodruin, but can he help them return? that would be the easiest for everyone else. OH...will frodo keep his finger? i mean, sam has gollum, so, *gasp* or are you going to have pip bite it off?? no don't do that! ah!

i am so glad you know where everythings going now. i bet its hard to try to write chappies people beg you for when you don't even know where you wanna go! I cannot WAIT to read more. now, on with the writing!

~Sarah

Awesome! I know I've missed a good deal of this, but this chapter rocks! I'm looking forward to seeing how this ends. It will be the passing of an era . . . or something along those lines :-)

Yay, an update!! :)
I loved the appearance of Eroo and his communication with Pippin and Frodo and the subsequent ring-bonding - very dramatic, and now my poor hobbits are hurt, so I am looking forward to some tender h/c. *nudges you*
Glad to hear the muse is back and I hope we can expect an update soon! :)