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[rabidsamfan]

Strider

I never knew how wide the wild world was until he took us from Bree and into the Midgewater Marshes and us half a-trot just to keep him in sight. Moors and forests, mountains and rivers, wondrous places and nightmares in the dark he led us safely through. And now we’ve found another bog to cross and a worse guide, and though ‘tis easier to play at follow-me-leader from tussock to tussock with someone whose legs are the right size, I can’t but wish that someday we might meet with Aragorn again and share a pipe beside the evening fire.




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Comments

[shirebound]

Oooh, comparing/contrasting Strider as marsh-guide with Gollum as marsh-guide is fascinating! What a creative idea!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's been percolating for a while now. *grin*

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Oh, how cool! <3 That compare and contrast thing just rocks.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. *grins*

[tialys.livejournal.com]

Just repeating the other comments, but your comparison of the marshes is amazing. Such a little detail that would easily go unnoticed, and you wrote it very well - especially in Sam's voice.

Thanks for sharing it!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I don't know how many marshes Sam might have encountered before the quest. Certainly nothing as large as those two! It's fun thinking about his reaction.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

This comparison is great!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. Thank you!

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, nice! Strider did really expand the horizons for the hobbits.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

And gave them an entirely new concept of what how far they could walk in a day too, I suspect.

[girlofring.livejournal.com]

Amen!!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Moors and forests, mountains and rivers, wondrous places and nightmares in the dark he led us safely through.

What a remarkable imagination of Aragorn! Marvellous, really. Funny enough I can see them sitting near the campfire on a peaceful evening, sharing some fine tobacco, the flames mirrored in their eyes (we did the same one beautiful, starry night during the camp, and it was a very "hobbit-like" feeling, indeed).

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I envy you the campfire. It's been ages since I sat by one.

Thanks!

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

*g* great!!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

*gasp* I missed one!
That was an interesting perspective on the early days of the Quest- follow-me-leader with Aragorn. Sad, yet shows Sam's hope that (at this stage at least) there will be peaceful times again.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*tsk tsk*

;)

I don't mind late comments -- I get the e-mail anyway, and it's nice to know that people read back. I'm glad you liked this one. I had fun thinking about it.