Title: That Which Comes Before A Fall… drabble series of 6
Author: Kortirion
Characters: Hobbits, Bilbo, Frodo
Rating: G
Source: Pre-Ring War
Disclaimer: Tokien’s map and characters… Kortiron’s ambience

( That Which Comes Before A Fall... )

Title: Give Us the Wherewithal to Serve
Author: Himring
Characters: Arwen, Ioreth
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Book/Source: Lord of the Rings
Disclaimer: Two female characters of Tolkien's, one of them aging.

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Continuing from the previous drabble, we are still on a ship heading west... Tindómë ('not quite an elf') remains curious about what the compass will do as they cross onto the straight way.

Title; The Straight way
Challenge: Unmentionables; telescope and spectacles
Characters: Tindómë and Gimli
Rating: PG;
Source: LotR.

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Elves may have perfect, far-sighted eyes, but ageing Men and Hobbits, let alone older Dwarves, could well have used some help from these; medieval monks had them, so why not the denizens of Minas Tirith, Bywater, et al

This time the unmentionable is:

SPECTACLES

Glasses, monocle, call them what you well, whose eyesight eventually needed some