Meme: Stories that never were

[rabidsamfan]

From rubynye, who inspired me to give this a try: (If nothing else, it might break the writer's block.)

Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Any fandom you've seen me write before is fair game. I'll try to come back with at least three of the possibilities.

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[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

the first sentence: "Dad! Dad, look! I think I can see it now!"
the last sentence: "It's grand to see what you might never have seen, but coming home is still best of all."
the thing that made me want to write it: I've always wanted to have Rosie see something of the world beyond Hobbiton.
the biggest problem I had while writing it: Working out which children would have had to go along on the trip because they were too young to be left behind and which ones I could leave in the care of the Cottons.
why it almost never got posted: I didn't want to leave it as a WIP!
the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage: I wanted to write about Tolman charming the sisters he hadn't met yet with a toothless smile when they got back to Bag End, but it would have meant coming up with a new last line.
something else that I want readers to know: This story nearly broke my usual reliance on the hobbit to human age differences, because Rosie's got to be nursing at least two of them at a time for years, and how she manages it I don't know!

[dreamflower]

Yes, I quite agreed with you that little Robin had to go along as well! And I understand exactly what you mean about the nursing! It's made me shake my head a time or two myself.

This little bit in the Appendixes really is one of the things that drives home the fact that JRRT was very much a *man*, and a man of his time, at that! I'm quite sure such a problem never even crossed his mind.