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Frodo-lad thought of it first, one summer afternoon when he had spent more time tracing the lines of his namesake's maps than practicing his letters, but he could not keep the secret from his mother when he needed both a cork and bottle from her store, nor his father who was guardian of parchment and ink. In the end it became a tradition for the Gardener children to write letters all the winter long and launch them come spring just below Bywater pool, brown bottles bobbing to the Brandywine and beyond. News from home to wash ashore on beaches faraway.
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Frodo-lad thought of it first, one summer afternoon when he had spent more time tracing the lines of his namesake's maps than practicing his letters, but he could not keep the secret from his mother when he needed both a cork and bottle from her store, nor his father who was guardian of parchment and ink. In the end it became a tradition for the Gardener children to write letters all the winter long and launch them come spring just below Bywater pool, brown bottles bobbing to the Brandywine and beyond. News from home to wash ashore on beaches faraway.
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Date: 2004-08-29 09:40 pm (UTC)*hopes to find one*
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:55 am (UTC)(Actually, given the reaction, you could post this as a bunny -- I'd love to see what people think the letters might say, from different children or at different ages, wouldn't you?)
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Date: 2004-08-30 10:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-30 11:34 pm (UTC)(changing the square brackets to carets, of course.)
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Date: 2004-08-29 09:44 pm (UTC)Have I ever told you how much I love your drabbles?
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-29 10:00 pm (UTC)I have a story that I will write, likely in the winter, about him, and when I do I will remember this.
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:56 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-08-29 10:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:58 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-08-29 11:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-30 02:58 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-08-29 11:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-30 02:59 am (UTC);)
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-30 02:59 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-08-30 02:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-08-30 03:00 am (UTC)traumatiseplease my readers. ;)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-08-30 11:30 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2004-08-30 03:51 am (UTC)I loved this drabble: full of imagination, possibilities and wistfullness. On one hand, I would love to see a follow-up with Frodo receiving one of these messages (as improbable as that may be), but on the other hand, it almost seems better to leave it open with the unexplored, imaginative possibilities. Either way, I'm happy!
Wonderful. *hugs*
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Date: 2004-08-30 11:31 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2004-08-30 11:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-02 07:06 am (UTC)I know what your next project is: Write those children's letter! :)
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Date: 2004-09-04 01:33 pm (UTC)