Happy Birthday altariel!

Jan 13, 2013 18:54

Happy Birthday to the lovely altariel!  I hope you are having a brilliant day!

In lieu of

This

I present you with this (posted for the tolkien_weekly ealth challenge)



Often throughout 1420 friendly winds blew clouds over the Barrow-downs and a gentle rain fell on Bree. Crops flourished uncannily and folk, looking to the Shire, said there must be magic in it.

The Burdocks were already worn to the bone when they moved into the unwanted house; fear of ruffians had finally forced them from their home. Yet ‘an apple a day keeps the healer away’ and outside their peeling door a sturdy sapling sprang into life, producing fruit within a single year!

And blossom, wafting in through their open windows, helped to scour the taint and ugliness away.

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"With a sudden flick, quick as lightning, an apple left his hand and hit Bill square on the nose. He ducked too late, and curses came from behind the hedge. ‘Waste of a good apple,’ said Sam regretfully, and strode on." The Fellowship of the Ring - A Knife in the Dark

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