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[rabidsamfan]

Restocking
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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[celandine-g.livejournal.com]

Thank-you for the lovely vignette of Sam being the "gardner" and by extension, the true caretaker of the Shire. Better than anyone, Sam knows how the Shire has been damaged, and more than anyone, he is hurt by it.

Great little piece. Thanks.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I think Sam is hurt by the damage even more than Frodo is, to tell the truth, but that's probably because I always look to see how Sam is taking things...