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( Day 26: Mockingbird )


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elena_tiriel seems to be on a bit of a roll with the "compare and contrast" prompts. She asked me to look at the fact that Frodo was adopted by his uncle, and Éomer and Éowyn were adopted by their uncle.

Day 322

Adoptive

Frodo did well enough in the rough-and-tumble of Brandy Hall, but Bilbo saw his eager look when he visited Bag End. It would be a kindness to the lad to adopt him.

Of course, it would be a kindness to Bilbo, too, to have someone to share his passions with.

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Éomer and Éowyn did well enough in Aldburg, but Théoden saw his nephew’s struggles to be master ere time. It would be a kindness to bring them to Edoras.

Of course, it would be a kindness to Théoden, too, to have children other than his only son to dote upon.

Inspired by aranel_took's Letter meme:

Day 299

Learning His Letters

"Mr Baggins, sir?"

"What is it, Sam?" Bilbo turned away from his desk, where he had been writing in a large book bound in red leather.

"Please, sir, da sent me to tell you as there ain’t no tomatoes today, but the first o’ the beans is ready for pickin’."

"I’m glad to hear it." Noticing Sam’s wide-eyed gaze was fixed on the scatter of manuscripts, inks, pens and other paraphernalia covering the desk, Bilbo pulled a scrap of paper towards him and waved Sam forward. "Come here, lad. Now this," he drew a flourish, "is an S for Sam...."

paranoidangel42 asked for some of Estel's life growing up in Rivendell, but not featuring Elrond, the twins, Glorfindel, or any of the usual suspects.

Day 163

The Long and the Short of it

The tall man bowed low. "At yours and your family's! But we have met before, Mr Baggins."

Bilbo frowned. "Forgive me, good sir, but I am sure I would remember such a great tall Man as yourself."

"Indeed!" The man laughed. "But I was scarcely taller than you on your first visit to the Last Homely House."

Racking his brains, Bilbo recalled a gawky Man-child among the Elves. "You asked impertinent questions about my feet!"

"Forgive me!" The man bowed again. "You were the first Hobbit I met. I have travelled far since and hope to have learned better manners."

paranoidangel42 gave me the prompt: People dealing with big changes - Frodo becoming Master of Bag End.

Day 109

Absent Presence

The ninety-nine days' wonder had at last begun to die down, but Frodo still caught himself listening for the clatter of Bilbo replacing his walking stick on coming in from a long tramp through the Country Round, or the rattle of dishes in the kitchen as his uncle fixed a tween-meal bite to eat, or the quiet tattoo as Bilbo leaned forward and knocked the dottle out of his pipe on the fender.

More and more often, Frodo would invite his cousins to stay: their merry company staved off the unprecedented and unnerving silence that otherwise descended of an evening.

Day 2



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