Merry Monday

[dreamflower]

In honor of Merry Monday, here's a little something.
Young Merry was a diligent correspondant:

DEAR FRODO...
http://www.storiesofarda.com/chapterview.asp?sid=3043&cid=17933

Comments

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

On my late review:

Speaking of misspellings... I already discovered on in my review. Grammar's not our friend, precioussss.

I never thought about the Anduin separating them. Interesting thought.

I would love to listen to the song you mentioned. It sounds indeed very fitting.

[dreamflower]

The song is a traditional folk song, also called "O Waly,Waly".

I looked for it on the web, and found this link:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songinfo.cfm?bandid=228300&songID=1633662&from=downloadsong.cfm&referer=http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Water+is+Wide+(I+Cannot+Swim+O%27er)+lyrics+and+music&hl=en&lr=&start=40&sa=N

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *hugs*

[celandine-g.livejournal.com]

Lovely, lovely. *wipes away tear* I like the way you set this at the time of Frodo's leaving. That makes it all the more poignant. I have always thought of them more as brothers than cousins. How hard it must have been for Merry to say good-bye.

[dreamflower]

I too, have always thought that Merry and Frodo would have been like brothers--really they *were* foster-brothers for at least the first seven years of Merry's life, his most formative years. I often call them "brother/cousins".

I think Merry's farewell must have been the most painful. Sam, at least, had the hope of one day joining Frodo, and Pippin would grieve mightily, but his closeness to Frodo was not the same as Merry's, who'd known him intimately from birth.

[elandulin.livejournal.com]

What a neat idea! I liked it! I especially liked this:

"Your room is very emtey empty. It makes loud noises now when I am in there..."

(Sorry I can't recreate the strike-out...) This is just a great description--not only the physical aspects of of the empty room, but the emotional ones as well. And the simplicity of it, in Child Merry's syntax, makes it all the more powerful. I enjoyed reading this very much!

What a treasure trove of story ideas Frodo must have left in that box! :)

[dreamflower]

I'm working on a longer fic right now, that concerns the contents of that box, but when I began to write the letters from Merry, they just kept on coming and coming--so I gave them a little story of their own...

To do a strike out, put < strike > in front of the word or words, and < / strike > at the end. (Leaving out the spaces, of course.)

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

That was absolutely lovely and bittersweet - just loved it.

[dreamflower]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.