What has he got in his pocket? (An introduction)

Jun 19, 2007 21:36

A hobbit has appeared quite literally out of thin air in the main room of the mansion. Bilbo hadn't meant to arrive here. He was taking a leisurely walk, with his ring in his pocket and Sting on his belt for old time's sake, when he had seen Lobelia coming down the path. With his usual good timing he put on his ring and dove under a hedgerow. ( Read more... )

the gentleman with the thistle-down hair, merry, molly seagrim, bilbo, angrod, sauron, armand, findarato, introduction, frodo

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 00:47:48 UTC
And Sauron honestly can't be the only person here with a reason to want the One Ring, can he? Although the gentleman doesn't yet know that he has reason to want it. It suits the gentleman to be visible at the moment, having just seen the hobbit become visible, himself. He is dressed in fine and tasteful gold and green, which might suit a hobbit well enough, and he is wearing a politely amused expression. "Are you a wizard, or something else entirely? You seem a trifle too mortal to be one of my kind, and yet not a man--oh, you are right to call it a bother, because this is very vexing indeed!"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 01:04:26 UTC
Bilbo has to take a moment to comprehend all of that. "I'm not a wizard. I'm a hobbit."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 01:27:32 UTC
"A hobbit!" He doesn't actually know what a hobbit is, and so the conclusive tone in his voice is more from deciding that it doesn't matter than from understanding. "You must certainly tell me all about them!"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 01:32:08 UTC
"Ah. We mainly live in Eriador. Some people call us halflings, perhaps you've heard that name? Hobbit is what we call ourselves. And... umm..." Bilbo is a little uncertain what the gentleman wants to know. He's also trying to categorize the gentleman but it's difficult.

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 01:34:29 UTC
"Oh, halflings. I haven't seen a halfling in centuries!" Having consigned Bilbo to the lower orders of his mental concept of Faerie, he becomes substantially less interested. "Eriador is a new name, though, no doubt under new governance, and high time, too! Where in Faerie is that?"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 01:38:23 UTC
"It's not in Faerie. It's in Middle Earth." He starts talking more to himself as he thinks. "And faries don't exist. Although there are the old legends like the one about the Old Took taking a fairy wife and all that but they have to be complete rubbish. I would have noticed by now if that had made me sprout wings or something..."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 02:04:09 UTC
"How fascinating!" he cries, interest immediately rekindled. "You haven't been to Fairie at all, nor ever met a proper fairy?"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 02:09:04 UTC
Bilbo shakes his head. "No. I've met dwarves, wizards, elves, shapechangers, goblins, trolls, and dragons but no faries."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 02:12:39 UTC
In the gentleman's world, quite a few of those rate as 'fairies,' and his brow wrinkles just slightly in concentration, before smoothing over as he once more chooses to disregard it. "Well! Now you have." He bows, just slightly; it wouldn't do to give halflings airs.

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 02:14:39 UTC
Bilbo bows back. "Pleased to meet you. Bilbo Baggins at your service."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 02:18:08 UTC
"Naturally you are at my service, although it is very good to hear it!" He smiles. "Do you play an instrument?"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 02:21:02 UTC
Bilbo's upper-middle class-ness bristles at being assumed to be at anyone's service. It may show a little. "I can play the pipe a little but more often I sing. Most hobbits do."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 02:22:19 UTC
Well, if he didn't mean it, he shouldn't have said it to a fairy! Hasn't he read any fairy stories? "You really must sing me something! I insist upon it."

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 02:27:34 UTC
He's read them but he didn't ever think that the fairy part was real! He lives by his pleasantries. And to be polite he sings one of his own songs.

"Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains of the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known."

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thistledownking June 21 2007, 02:29:36 UTC
The gentleman applauds when he finishes, his eyes glittering in satisfaction. "You have quite a talent, Mr Baggins!"

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ringwinner June 21 2007, 02:32:40 UTC
"It was nothing. Just a little walking song that I made up."

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