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Three miles to the village, and he needed more saplings. Sam paused in the scrap of woodland and looked over the prospects, wondering which saplings were the offspring of the ancient oaks which had been felled and dragged out of the copse and which would prove as scrawny as the scruffy trees Saruman’s men had left behind. “Damn fools,” he said, for the hundredth time, dry-eyed now as he’d learned to be in spite of the ragged stumps that were all that were left of trees that had witnessed the first hobbits to come this way from across the Brandywine.
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Three miles to the village, and he needed more saplings. Sam paused in the scrap of woodland and looked over the prospects, wondering which saplings were the offspring of the ancient oaks which had been felled and dragged out of the copse and which would prove as scrawny as the scruffy trees Saruman’s men had left behind. “Damn fools,” he said, for the hundredth time, dry-eyed now as he’d learned to be in spite of the ragged stumps that were all that were left of trees that had witnessed the first hobbits to come this way from across the Brandywine.
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Date: 2004-07-12 11:05 am (UTC)Very good.
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-12 12:13 pm (UTC)*hugs Sam*
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:37 am (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2004-07-12 12:18 pm (UTC)trees that had witnessed the first hobbits to come this way from across the Brandywine
Wonderful -- this is the sort of history that Sam would be aware of. I like the way that the trees are lightly personified there in the end -- Sam sees them as almost semi-sentient (not a surprise after his expereince). His refusal to weep in the face of this only emphasizes more strongly the extent of the destruction he's had to endure.
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:39 am (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2004-07-12 01:35 pm (UTC)*hugs him*
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-12 02:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-13 02:40 am (UTC)Grrrrr indeed!
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Date: 2004-07-13 12:08 am (UTC)This brings the irreparable amount of damage done in the Shire into beautifully clear focus, in just a few words. :)
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-13 12:10 am (UTC)Great little piece. Thanks.
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Date: 2004-07-13 02:42 am (UTC)