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[rabidsamfan]

Galadrim

They came across the fields by starlight, but small babies care little about the time and she was often wakeful. Soft shimmers in the grass were all she could see till she learned how to find the tall, bright figures amid the shadows. Up to the tree in the Party Field they went, every one, and most never passed the green door again.

But now and then a youth with ancient eyes would be caught between two longings and morning would find him in the garden, bewildered, until breakfast and babies and a dose of hobbitsense would send him Home.



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[rosiegardener.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have found that gem in the moonlight instead of in bright morning sun, but nonetheless it's wonderful ! I'm a little slow this morning though - who is "she" ?

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

My goodness, how beautiful - you manage it again and again to surprise me! And this made me immediately think of Those who remain... of course.

Thank you, my dear!

[shirebound]

I've been trying to figure out exactly who "she" and "he" are, but maybe it doesn't matter. This is very lovely.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I can just see the drawing of this in my head, a tall young Elf holding a laughing hobbit baby. I wonder if we could convince hyel or trilliah?

This is beautiful. :)

[gentlehobbit.livejournal.com]

This is lovely! Like all the others, I wonder who she and he are. Perhaps a young Frodo Gardner and a younger female sibling? Or perhaps a generation beyond them?

But identities don't really matter, do they. The ephemerality of the drabble works all the better for not pinning things down.

Lovely!

Galadrim

[eykar.livejournal.com]

I took it as a biography of Elanor, the most likely of the family to be able to see Elves -- first as a crawling baby, then as a growing child, finally as a near-adult who had learned to understand sundered longings.

I took the youth with ancient eyes to be a Sindar, one of the Elves easily enchanted with the life of Middle-earth, which explains why those who sailed west at all did so much later than the Noldor did. I'm not sure that I believe in Elves' staying to investigate hobbits, but I like the idea that some would, maybe having heard of the the great part they played in the ending of the Third Age.