![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Day 2: Renewal
Apr. 18th, 2007 06:25 pmDay 2
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telperion1 asked for something Hobbit-centric. Specifically about the resettling of Dale/Laketown/Erebor after the big battle. Maybe the first impression of an OC returning to the area?
Renewal
The mountain's high-reared cone still towered, barren and stony. But waves of sage and orange and purple now broke against its middle slopes. Its feet were covered with a patchwork quilt in gold and green and blue, traced through with embroidery of red sandstone and green serpentine and purple slate, studded with white jewels of farm, cottage, tower. Where once only crow-cracked wind broke the silence came the chatter of fountains, peal of bells, bleating of sheep, call of ploughmen to cattle.
Bilbo turned his head from side to side, round-eyed with wonder, as he rode towards the Gate.
In part this drabble was inspired by my trip to Mt St Helens last year withsgafan. I was thinking that the blast-affected areas around the mountain probably looked something like the Desolation of Smaug, and of this picture that I took there last year:
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/TanaquiSGA/US%20Trip/DSCN0964.jpg
telperion1 asked for something Hobbit-centric. Specifically about the resettling of Dale/Laketown/Erebor after the big battle. Maybe the first impression of an OC returning to the area?Renewal
The mountain's high-reared cone still towered, barren and stony. But waves of sage and orange and purple now broke against its middle slopes. Its feet were covered with a patchwork quilt in gold and green and blue, traced through with embroidery of red sandstone and green serpentine and purple slate, studded with white jewels of farm, cottage, tower. Where once only crow-cracked wind broke the silence came the chatter of fountains, peal of bells, bleating of sheep, call of ploughmen to cattle.
Bilbo turned his head from side to side, round-eyed with wonder, as he rode towards the Gate.
In part this drabble was inspired by my trip to Mt St Helens last year with
sgafan. I was thinking that the blast-affected areas around the mountain probably looked something like the Desolation of Smaug, and of this picture that I took there last year:http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c18/TanaquiSGA/US%20Trip/DSCN0964.jpg
