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[livejournal.com profile] telperion1 asked for something Hobbit-centric. Specifically about the resettling of Dale/Laketown/Erebor after the big battle.

as part of the Building The Future series

Dereliction of Duty

For months, it was a camp more than a town. Of men under canvas who daily toiled to clear rubble, rebuild walls, fix roofs, and till fields that had seen no crops but weeds for many a year.

But slowly the women returned. Wives, mothers, daughters: turning houses into homes, planting gardens in the garths, keeping chickens, gathering and gleaning after the reapers.

After a while, seeing how his people and their families flourished, Bard realised he had put in train all that mattered for the rebuilding of the Kingdom of Dale – save perhaps the most important task of all.

Date: 2007-06-24 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phyloxena.livejournal.com
This is good! Erebor and Dale don't get much publicity. Will you write another one, about Bard wedding, or something?

Date: 2007-06-25 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lindahoyland.livejournal.com
I was just reading the Hobbit today, so this fleshed out the ending nicely !

Date: 2007-07-04 03:21 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Very good! The normal order of things: men bring basic survival, women bring civilization. And I could totally see Bard so caught up in the rebuilding that he almost forgets he'll need an heir. If not a Bard wedding, how about a Bard courtship?

Denise

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