Deeper Down the Withywindle
Author: clodia_metelli
Title: Deeper Down the Withywindle
Rating: G
Theme: Pairs
Elements: husband, wife
Author's Notes: A true drabble written for lotr_community's November Challenge, with borrowings from 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' in Tales from the Perilous Realm (2002). I am not Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: Down comes the rain... but Goldberry has a new toy.
Down the Withywindle |
Down comes the rain.
It spills over the willow-branches trailing their green tips curiously through silver rills, hammers interlaced roots and the water-lilies tossed by a turbulent torrent. Raindrops dance madly across the swirling river. The heavens are heavy with clouds, awash with thunder. Bulrushes bow and sway to the pounding of storm-drums.
Deep in the deepest hollow, Goldberry coils herself, silver-scaled, into her mother’s calm root-cupped pools. Her new toy sails serenely through hair unfurling gold in clear water.
Tom’s come a-courting...
... laughter bubbling, she plucks the swan-feather from his hat. For who’d be wife to such a husband?
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