Xposted: Message in a Bottle

[rabidsamfan]

Message in a bottle

by rabidsamfan

Dear Namefather,

Elanor says that Ulmo won't take letters to you, but when I was looking at a map I saw that rivers go to the sea and I thought maybe I should at least try to explain that it's not my fault. You see, it was Pippin and Merry – the Gamgee ones, not the Thain and the Master who only Dad calls Pippin and Merry these days except for their wives and then only in private which must feel strange because if nobody called me Frodo-lad anymore I wouldn't know when to answer them when they talked. But anyway, it was my brothers Pippin and Merry who were the ones who decided that they should dig a secret tunnel out of the smial so they could sneak out without the girls knowing and I caught them and said no, because it might fall in on them, but after I chased them out to play I saw the corner of the box in the hole they'd been digging, so I thought it might be dragon treasure from Bilbo even though Dad says there wasn't any left and I started to dig around it to get out the box, and that's why the wall caved in and Dad said we boys ought to all sleep together anyway and now the third bedroom and the fourth bedroom are joined together and I have to sleep with Pippin and Merry and Hamfast and Bilbo and Robin and all except for Tom who still sleeps with Mama and Dad in their room and it's hard because Hamfast snores, and the others say I snore but I don't because if I made that much noise I'd wake myself up. The room looks okay, except for the extra shoring which is kind of awkward to remember to walk around when it's dark without stubbing your toes but it's okay for lads even if my sisters all think that it looks stupid to have a smial with boards and beams all over like a dwarf mine and Dad says he hopes he figured how to do it right from remembering the Mines of Moria, and he'll have some real dwarves check on it before the rest of the roof caves in. But anyway, I did manage to get the box under my bed before everyone came, and after I got a licking I remembered it and opened it and found your diaries, and I promise not to let my sisters read them because they wouldn't understand and did you really turn my father blue with berries that time so he could scare Uncle Merry?

Love, Frodo