and she drabbles once again!
May. 10th, 2004 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanPacking for Crickhollow
The worst part was the books. Never had a book come into Bag End without finding a permanent home. Frodo was torn between leaving them for the Sackville-Bagginses to ignore or sending them to Buckland where they’d gather dust until such time as his disappearance became his assumed death and they’d be dragged back to Bag End or sold at auction.
In the end he packed them, because no one would believe he would leave them behind, but on each flyleaf he wrote the name of the person who would love that book best, with “gift of Frodo Baggins” underneath.
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The worst part was the books. Never had a book come into Bag End without finding a permanent home. Frodo was torn between leaving them for the Sackville-Bagginses to ignore or sending them to Buckland where they’d gather dust until such time as his disappearance became his assumed death and they’d be dragged back to Bag End or sold at auction.
In the end he packed them, because no one would believe he would leave them behind, but on each flyleaf he wrote the name of the person who would love that book best, with “gift of Frodo Baggins” underneath.
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Date: 2004-05-10 05:27 pm (UTC)In FOTR he told Gandalf, "I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable... even if my feet cannot stand there again." He truly never thought he'd be coming back, and in a sense, he never really did. This is a marvelous piece.
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Date: 2004-05-11 03:47 am (UTC)Re: Packing up Bag End
Date: 2004-05-10 05:40 pm (UTC)Like JR posted in the on-line LoTR class, the Shire's very insularity gave its inhabitants a certain strength, because it kept them uncorrupted. They were able to hold onto their values even though they may not have really known what those values were due to lack of contrast. In that sense, I suppose Gandalf and Bilbo were right that Frodo was "the best hobbit in the Shire," since he had at least a literary knowledge of other values and traditions but was still true to his own. (This is all because I checked your LJ during a break from obsessively reading class emails.)
Giving away the images because he's about to face the real thing . . . .
Re: Packing up Bag End
Date: 2004-05-11 03:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-10 06:09 pm (UTC)How does this apply to your own sorting and packing of books? Any you have chosen to part with?
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Date: 2004-05-11 03:50 am (UTC)Still, books are a much less valuable commodity in this age of printing presses, so I can be generous...
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Date: 2004-05-10 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-11 03:57 am (UTC)I understand the review problem. I owe about a hundred myself. But the movers come tomorrow morning...
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Date: 2004-08-03 11:37 am (UTC)Book Frodo
Date: 2004-05-10 08:31 pm (UTC)Re: Book Frodo
Date: 2004-05-11 04:01 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2004-05-10 09:52 pm (UTC)Marvellous, again.
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Date: 2004-05-11 04:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-11 04:29 am (UTC)Only too true. Perhaps they would use his favourite treasures to light the fireplace - just as a mean revenge for having been forced to wait so long for Bag End to be theirs. Ha! That gives me some ideas for my SEE-Version of Chestnut...
*Toddles off murmuring and making notes*
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Date: 2004-05-11 04:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-05-11 06:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-11 07:06 am (UTC)I want to write a longer (and better) tale because I think that their relationship must have a history, because I want to know more of them, how they first met, how their love developed, how she handled the fact that he went away and came back totally changed... and a million more reasons, you know? And I will start to write as soon as Winter Fire is finished. But I will not post it until I have written the last chapter - WIP's ar far too exhausting, I fear.
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Date: 2004-05-11 08:33 am (UTC)(And you could always call it a Proposition With Slightly More Plot Than Usual, yes?)
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Date: 2004-05-11 09:03 am (UTC)And concerning WIP's - they give me a lot of pressure, because I simply hate stories that are not finished. And besides, I promised the longer version to
Well, let's hope the best...
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Date: 2004-05-10 10:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-11 04:05 am (UTC)Some books are friends.
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Date: 2004-05-11 07:29 pm (UTC)thanks a lot for sharing during this busy time =) ( i see how the inspiration came about =)
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Date: 2004-05-13 01:12 am (UTC)The discipline of having to make it all fit in a hundred words is terribly good for me!