Title: The Mother of Day
By: HF
Work: Lord of the Rings, references to Silmarillion
Rating/Warnings: This may be the most gen. thing I've ever written.
Pairings: None
Disclaimer: The genius is Tolkien's.
Notes: While doing research for a presentation on Latin enigmas, I came across an absolutely fascinating 19th-century verse riddle,
The Tree
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You can!
Aragorn is one of those people I can't imagine ever having been a kid, for some reason. Even though Tolkien explicitly says Aragorn was a toddler when Arathorn died, I honestly can't envision him as such.
Maybe it's the thought of Aragorn doing something so undignified as spitting up that does it, I don't know. Or maybe it's just that I don't like kids. *grin*
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But I love this anyway.^_~
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Must be something in the air.
"The door-keeping tree" brings holly to my mind, but it wouldn't bring it to Bilbo's so I'm stumped.
This calls for another drabble... Aragorn's solution :)
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i am SO too tired right now to figure out that riddle... will have to come back to this thing
living for inspiration,
ophelia
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I love your icon. "It does, however, make for a very strong case," indeed!
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i KNOW! any time you can combine the goodness that is sirius/remus slash AND velvet goldmine in one icon, you've got yourself a good thing going.
living for inspiration,
Ophelia
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the gold-crownéd tree - Mallorn
the tree ‘round which revelers sway - the party tree in Hobbiton - only a Hobbit would write that, but only a Hobbit was guess it!
The shepherding tree - An Ent - although not technically a tree.
the tree that’s the mother of day - I would have to guess Laurelin, who's flower was the Sun, making her the 'mother of day'.
The others I'm not sure about. I can't remember what wood the Numenoreans favoured for their shipbuilding.
Are any of those guesses right?
And baby Aragorn was very cute.
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We shall see, we shall see. *whistles* Aragorn's solutions are coming up.
And baby Aragorn was very cute.
Isn't he just? *makes obnoxious drooling, cooing auntie noises*
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