How could you leave me hanging like this? I'm obsessed with this story; I just love it so much! Is there gonna be any Frodo/Sam soon? You could at least have one or both admit their feelings to each other. I suppose I could settle for that...anyways...I just wanted to tell you that I think you're doing a GREAT job with this story. Keep up the good work.

How could you leave me hanging like this? I'm obsessed with this story; I just love it so much! Is there gonna be any Frodo/Sam soon? You could at least have one or both admit their feelings to each other. I suppose I could settle for that...anyways...I just wanted to tell you that I think you're doing a GREAT job with this story. Keep up the good work.

How could you leave me hanging like this? I'm obsessed with this story; I just love it so much! Is there gonna be any Frodo/Sam soon? You could at least have one or both admit their feelings to each other. I suppose I could settle for that...anyways...I just wanted to tell you that I think you're doing a GREAT job with this story. Keep up the good work.

Dying. Dying now. This is just too beautiful and painful and all that other good stuff (or bad if you're not the masochist that I am)! Keep it up, and please don't rip my heart completely out.

Heidi, this chapter is so incredibly written I don't even know what to say. The three paragraphs at the beginning (starting with "For an instant he saw" and ending with "roar forth from the hills" might be some of the most stunning writer I've come across on this site. What amazing insights! I never thought about what Frodo might have felt, finishing the Book at last. And of course, I hold out hope for a happy ending (whatever it may be). Magnificent.

great story, I love how you're dealing with Rosie. I'd just kill her off (hee hee)

Can't wait for the next chapter

This was just ... incredible. An utterly beautiful, perfectly nuanced story that depicts what I envision as the "behind-the-scenes" aftermath after the hobbits return to the Shire. I wait with anticipation for the next chapter.

AW!*cries* this makes me so happy to read, yet so sad too :( theyre so perfect for each other...oh :'(

there will be a happy ending, right?

Does that mean they kissed? Its so sweet! my frind got weirded out by me as I read this I LOVE this SO much! its a great story!

OH! I can't wait for this to continue! But I have to ask. Why haven't they kissed yet! lol I know stupid question. but had to ask. anyway I love it and I wouldn't change a ting!

Are you trying to hurt me? I mean, seriously - ow. Ow ow OW. And also ai, and bloody nora, and HOO.

I'm running out of things to say because this continues to be as wonderful as it has been, and so I want to say the same things! I was clutching my face as I invariably do when reading this - my 'Into the Twilight' position is thus: hands over mouth, shoulders slightly hunched to protect self from blows to heart, eyes so focussed you'd think I was watching RoTK already, and mouth open - again with the RoTK. There are also little gasps and AGHs or, in the case of the line 'His heart is pure sunlight.', which is just. so. true - an aww wrenched out of my stomach.

Sam's description of when he thought he had lost Frodo, then when he found him again - 'Then I fought and ran and it was like I was holding my breath the whole time, until finally I got to the top and saw you.' Oh crap; do you KNOW what you're doing to me? That was beautiful. 'And then you were alive and in my arms for real.' - you know what this made me think of?

The pic. Oh yes. THAT one. I almost saw it! It was in a film mag, very small at the bottom of the page, and I saw it when flicking through while going down my stairs in the dark, so I just saw shapes. But it was enough to see Sam leaning over and holding Frodo so close, and I could picture the expressions, and hoo, I screamed (and then I ran into the kitchen, covered my eyes and made my mother rip it out while I jumped about nervously - so I didn't actually look! I have such willpower!) But even just seeing the shapes was enough that this line made me think of it; for me the depictions of Sam and Frodo have been so wonderful in the film that it ties in with the book, and so having read the real passage, half seen a picture of it, and now that POV from Sam all rolled in we have a Support Group as well as the twelve step program? Because if just that is enough to send me into a jittery mess, than how am I going to be when the trailer comes out?

You continue to astound me with your grasp of the characters and narrative, your wonderful WONDERFUL use of Rosie - because she is there, and he does love her, and just ignoring her would detract from what makes this fic so powerful; that it feels like an extension of the novel, it is that *real - and not only the overall amazing beauty wow amazing god I'm crying again aww brilliant bugger more tragedy etc etc, but the little things. Like previously with Sam's jumper, the use of 'hasty', I know I've gone on about thm before but as my friend says about me, it's the little things that get me. Fave in this chapter: how Merry and Pippin will 'be giants next to the baby.' Oh, the image! I giggled; wonderful, so sweet and lovely.

I should stop blathering. See what you do to me? You're evil! But oh, I love you so.

Again, just thankyou for writing. And for your words at the beginnings of chapters; this is terribly cliché, but they warm my heart!

Keep it coming! *chains self to Frodo to wait out the remaining time until chapter 8* And don't think I won't drag him into your lj with me so we can both whine at you if you don't. Because I will. :D

Just wanted to say you've been a wonderful new friend so far, and I look forward to descending into nervous wreck-ness (new word) with you as RoTK comes running into our lives with the slap of hobbit feet, the waa-crashchink of swords, and the thunder of hooves. The first time I see a trailer, I'm sure you'll hear my mentally projected screams from where you are. I'm contemplating earmuffs for yours. ;D

Love,

Ink

The software's nagging reminder that "it is extremely helpful to use this opportunity to comment on an aspect of the story that can be improved" has never seemed more superfluous to me than at this moment. Your seventh chapter more than fulfills the promise of the first six, although I would like to point out gently that you are once again leaving your hapless readers desperate for more (perhaps that is the aspect of the story than can be improved: not all of it exists yet - but I don't suppose we're supposed to comment on ontological problems here, are we?)

What I like is the way you've made all the characters so sympathetic that you left me wishing for a completely different outcome in different parts of the chapter; while at the end I wanted Frodo & Sam to come to an understanding at last, in the middle I wanted Rose to find some genuine happiness as well. Your Rose continues to be one of the best I've seen: she has every reason to hate Frodo but doesn't, and yet you don't go overboard and turn her into someone so saintly that she's beyond resentment. I truly felt for her plight: "She was misunderstood by her family and she did not understand her husband. It was a frightening, empty middle ground to keep." Very moving.

The final scene between Frodo and Sam was so tender and romantic (if painful in many ways). Truly delightful, and it would be even more delightful to see them together - but it's a measure of the very high quality of your fic that it seems (at this point) to be calling for an ending more complicated than _just_ a union between Frodo and Sam. [nag mode]I look forward to - and plead for - future chapters. [/nag mode]

“It’s not as like you’re taking anything he’s not trying to give.”

Lovely and it's all a sad bunched up tangled scenario - the strangest thing being that there's too much love to go around.

I am personally in love with this chapter! The end was steller, and made want to cry and smile at once. You really have a gift I hope you know!

I bow to you, and your telling knowledge of Frodo and his Sam.

I thought this chapter was excellent! I love the exchange between Esmerelda and Frodo(and Sam!)

I'm really anxious to see how this all turns out so keep up the good work!