I am just playing with Tolkien's friends …..
Snow fell softly to the ground where an accumulation already lay. With a sigh Sam looked out the window of the window. Oh his quarters here in Rivendell where spacious and quite nice. Too nice if you asked him but none other than Lord Elrond himself had proclaimed that he deserved nothing less. Now this was more than he needed thank you very much after all he was but a humble gardener. When he had said this though he was told that was not how others saw him. How else was there? He pondered this as he continued to watch the snow fall.
Elrond closed the door to the apothecary where he kept stores of his healing supplies and carried the ones he had selected into the adjoining room. So far not one of his guests needed serious healing but he did not like the shadows that he could see with his healer trained eyes.
It was a rather mild winter storm that was blowing around Imladris, well he mused mild for elves, but for the company of hobbits that now sheltered in his home there would be no further travel toward their home of the shire until the weather cleared. Sturdy they may be however they had all four been in danger and turmoil for the quest to destroy the one ring and it took a piece of all of them.
The biggest worry for him however, as a healer lay with the two little ring bearers. Frodo and Sam both had carried the one ring to its destruction. He paused as he pondered the gentle Sam. He did not see himself as one to be praised or having done any great feats. Indeed he would tell all that Frodo had done all the work in carrying the ring. It seems that he had forgotten his own part in the quest.
On a sigh Elrond finished his preparations and turned to his office he intended that not one person forgot to whom they owed freedom from such dark from. He knew from his visions he had some time to go before his healing was knowledge was needed and wanted to finish put the finishing touches on the gifts he had been working on. For he intended that before they left for their beloved shire all four would know how loved and valued they were.