A Dragon for Dora’s Yule - for Dreamflower by Larner

[blslarner]

Author: Larner - for Dreamflower
Title: A Dragon for Dora's Yule
Rating: G
Theme: Yule Exchange
Elements: Dreamflower asked for a rather fluffy story involving some of those in the family trees, although I couldn't let it get away without a hint of angst, could I? (Grins innocently)
Author's Notes: With much love!
Summary: Illness and bad

Comments

[shirebound]

Da used to say that he hoped that if an Elf were to happen by, it would smile to see stars in our windows in the darkest of days in the year.

What a lovely detail. This is a marvelously detailed Yule, and so very hobbity. I enjoyed this very much.

[blslarner]

Thanks so much! I'd so hoped that it would work well. Dora is such an interesting character to write, and I have found I very much like Bungo.

[nancylea57]

SAFE what a four letter word. Just imagine dora might have choosen her dragon and traveled and ,gasp, had adventures of her own. Imagine who they would have cast to play an adventuresome hobbittess? Or o wait is this the foreshadowing of dora the Explorer. Tricky, tricky.

Good story wonderful filling great flavour and texture in the weaving.

Happy safe new year.

[blslarner]

Poor Dora--she denied herself so much, or so I've always thought. She and Bilbo were not quite contemporaries, but as close as they could be, I suppose. But thinking of her as Dora the Explorer makes me giggle. No, this Dora preferred being SAFE indeed.

And thank you so for the comments. I so appreciate it!

[dreamflower02]

Ah, yes! Safety would mean so much to Dora, a child of the Fell Winter (as was Bilbo). Bilbo clung to his safety for a long time, but gave it up to follow the wizard to his dragon.

Dora never did. But I fancy she made a good life for herself after all.

How I love this, dear, with all it's hobbity details and descriptions! And to focus on young Dora, one of my favorite characters! Thank you SO much for your beautiful gift! (((((hugs))))))

[blslarner]

That is what I felt, the Dora who became the Arbiter of Etiquette for the Shire would have chosen safety. And I am so very glad that this proved precisely what you wanted! I loved writing it!

[febobe]

This is wonderful. (I love the food descs, of course. But there's so much more.) As usually, sweetie, you have transported us into the Shire for Yule...bless you. <3

[blslarner]

And it is a joy to have done so. How I loved writing this story! Thank you so, Febobe!

[curiouswombat]

What a lovely, detailed, Shire Yule. I did enjoy all their customs so well explained.

I wonder if Dora ever regretted choosing her pen over her dragon?

[blslarner]

I believe that the ideas for reading the lead and the superstition of "Change the name but not the letter" came from some of Lucy Maud Montgomery's books from Prince Edward Island, and it was fun to see them take shape within the Shire. The New Fire came from Rosemary Sutcliffe's "Warrior Scarlett." And the potatoes roasting under the bonfire just seems to Hobbity to begin with.

I, too, wonder if she would have been better off choosing her dragon, but felt that her great reams of advice and would in time become her solace for fleeing uncertainty. In the end, she proved the Proper Baggins rather than Bilbo or Frodo.

Thanks so!