An elf and human walk into the Prancing Pony to find it completely full with people standing by tables. Two people start to stand the the pair moves over to the table and sit across from several hobbits.
"This place is always full this time of year," Primrose Proudfoot says.
"You'd think people would be drinking at the festival grounds instead of coming to town," Arn Bulrush says.
"It's a long trip but the Pony has the best drinks in Bree-Land."
"I may prefer the wines of Lothlorien but the efforts of men are certainly well suited to the festive occation," Haerandel says.
"I was hoping it would be slightly quieter after listening to those people from Gondor yelling," Arn says.
"You aren't going to find a quiet place in Bree or the Shire until the party ends," Primrose says.
"You're likely right."
"Those two herbalist where fools," Haerandel says. "I don't know how they can call themselves scholars when they simply read books and question nothing they are told."
"What was all the yelling about?" Arn asks.
"The third Gondorian with them tried to correct the mistakes they made and they argued with her."
"Arguing about flowers?" Primrose says. "What kind of foolishness would lead people to that?"
"Flowers," Haerandel says "as well as other plants, are used in creating healing mixtures. The study of using plants in this way is of great importance in Gondor."
"Tall men are strange creatures. Why would you destroy something pretty if you don't know it would help anything?"
"There are always questions to be answered and you can't find the answer without trying things for yourself."
"No matter what reason you give crushing a flower seems wrong," Primrose says.
"That sounds like a very hobbit way of looking at things," Arn says.
"I must say I agree with her," Haerandel says. "The sight of flowers made my travels with my brother much brighter."
"There was an elf in the fields near my home just staring at a sunflower," Primrose says. "He kind of looked like you."
"That likely was my brother. I am to meet him here so we can continue our travels before heading to the Undying Lands."
"Why was he nearly crying as he stared at a sunflower?"
"Those flowers used to be everywhere but during Sauron's war in the second age they began to die," Haerandel says. "We thought they had all disappeared from the world so learning that they still live was a remarkable surprise."
"I hadn't thought about them. I see them along the road every day."
"Perhaps We should start our travels there so that I might get to see that which I thought was lost."