Author: Azalaisdep Title: Till the World is Mended Characters: Tom Bombadil, Goldberry Rating: G Source: RoTK Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit
Oh yes! I had read it, but hadn't bookmarked it so it was lovely to go back and read it again. (I have finished work a little early and it was a really good way to use this stolen, secret, time!)
Good, I'm glad it feels right. I reread "In the House of Tom Bombadil" before I started it and JRRT writes it so vividly, I wanted to try to capture the right atmosphere.
I've tried a number of times to write this very scene but couldn't get it right. Thank you for writing it so wonderfully.
“Yet the once-merry Elf-friend is scoured, clear and brittle as glass,” Goldberry observes sadly, drawing up her bare feet under her; “he may never be healed, not in this world.” I've often thought that Frodo's fate must be a deep grief to Goldberry.
When I remembered Gandalf's thought about Frodo becoming "like a glass filled with a clear light for for eyes to see that can", it suddenly seemed very likely that Goldberry might be one of those able to see it. And since JRRT clearly imples that whatever Goldberry is, she isn't an Elf, and that she's very much of Middle-earth, Frodo's departure for the West must have filled her with sadness, I think.
I'm honoured that you feel I've captured the scene for you!
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I think that you have.
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“Yet the once-merry Elf-friend is scoured, clear and brittle as glass,” Goldberry observes sadly, drawing up her bare feet under her; “he may never be healed, not in this world.”
I've often thought that Frodo's fate must be a deep grief to Goldberry.
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I'm honoured that you feel I've captured the scene for you!
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