The Mother of Day [Bilbo, Estel] G

[aesc]

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

Comments

[tartanshell]

This is just lovely! I can see this scene so clearly, and I adore the idea of young Aragorn talking to Bilbo, and...ooh. Just a wonderful drabble. *applause*

[aesc]

Thank you! *takes biscuit*

[rinsbane]

heavens, only you could make Aragorn cute and get away with it. Can I hug him? *g*

[aesc]

Can I hug him? *g*

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*

[mrkinch]

It's baby!Estel day! This is great and Bilbo is perfect but I always want to hide because I'm so bad at riddles. "The door-keeping tree" brings holly to my mind, but it wouldn't bring it to Bilbo's so I'm stumped.

But I love this anyway.^_~

[aesc]

It's baby!Estel day!

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 :)

[herophelia]

that was so cute

i am SO too tired right now to figure out that riddle... will have to come back to this thing

living for inspiration,
ophelia

[aesc]

Thanks, Ophelia! *snuggles*

I love your icon. "It does, however, make for a very strong case," indeed!

[herophelia]

I love your icon. "It does, however, make for a very strong case," indeed!

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

[shebit]

Hmm, my thoughts are:

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.

[aesc]

Are any of those guesses right?

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*

[shebit]

I wrote baby Theoden meeting Thorongil a while back, and he was also quite cute, although a little obnoxious - "Are you prince here? Last time I looked I was prince here..."