Title: Mirror
Author: Dreamiflame
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, Tolkien's and whomever else's.
Note: Again, not exactly part of the series, but it follows the ideas in "Garden" so well I had to include it.
Series Note: Each of these stories is exactly 100 words long, a drabble. They were written and posted on Livejournal earlier.
"Mirror"
Sam works now in Her gardens of Lothlorien. He thinks, though She has never taken him aside and said so, that he is the guardian of the Mirror. He avoids looking in it himself, but keeps the grass neatly trimmed around its base. The children that laughed up at him the one time he peeked in haunt his dreams. They were his children, Sam is sure of that. And they will never be born, not beneath the Lady's rule. He knows that like his name.
He cries sometimes, when he wakes, for the laughing Hobbit children that never were.
Author: Dreamiflame
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Not mine, Tolkien's and whomever else's.
Note: Again, not exactly part of the series, but it follows the ideas in "Garden" so well I had to include it.
Series Note: Each of these stories is exactly 100 words long, a drabble. They were written and posted on Livejournal earlier.
"Mirror"
Sam works now in Her gardens of Lothlorien. He thinks, though She has never taken him aside and said so, that he is the guardian of the Mirror. He avoids looking in it himself, but keeps the grass neatly trimmed around its base. The children that laughed up at him the one time he peeked in haunt his dreams. They were his children, Sam is sure of that. And they will never be born, not beneath the Lady's rule. He knows that like his name.
He cries sometimes, when he wakes, for the laughing Hobbit children that never were.