Disaster Challenge - Flood. Another Bedtime Tale for Little Hobbits

[curiouswombat]

Title: Another Bedtime Tale for Little Hobbits

Comments

[clodia_metelli]

An excellent lesson! All small hobbits should learn it. (Any hobbit who can leave dinner unattended is certainly no great loss.)

[curiouswombat]

It occurred to me that any hobbit who went to sea would most certainly be the ship's cook!

I am having such fun taking scenes from canon and twisting them around totally to kill off all the possibly adventurous hobbits and thereby make them salutary tales!

[wormwood_7]

Serves him right. Big waves and small hobbits don't mix.

[curiouswombat]

Absolutely!

[lindahoyland]

An excellent cautionary tale!

[curiouswombat]

I am quite looking forward to putting them all together!

[hhimring]

You are working hard to give us bonus disasters, the one with the drought had a flood in it, too, and this one has a bonus volcano eruption (shades of Numenor?).
I do like the detail of that fish stew.

[curiouswombat]

Shades of Numenor indeed - and the last one had shades of the incident at the Ford of Bruinen. Except that much of the stories has been lost, or disregarded, over the years so that 'lots of water dashing down a river and overwhelming something' or 'a volcano and an enormous wave that buried a whole island' remain as concepts to be used for the story tellers own ends!

I'm glad you liked the fish stew - the sailors on such a ship might have been glad of a hobbit cook to make fish more interesting!

[someplacetobe]

I can't help thinking about that unattended dinner! =P

[curiouswombat]

Doubtless, like the hobbit, it came to no good end!

[someplacetobe]

Doubtless!

Also: this brought such a smile when I read it; I've been enjoying these stories immensely!