Shire Yule

[aliensouldream]

Overambition rules! I was unable to do SeSa this year but I still need to try and put a little Frodo in my Yule.  I saw this pic and the prompt that occurred was

A Yule to Remember

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[addie71]

I love that banner! :)

[aliensouldream]

It's lovely isn't it! Conjures up so many cosy images of what's inside.

[jan_u_wine]

I hope you may find this acceptable, two Yule poems written in (i believe) 2012, one during Frodo's youth and one after the Quest

Yule 2

[jan_u_wine]

Yule 2

RE: Yule 2

[aliensouldream]

Dear Jan, your words are Magik. I have to read them twice inwardly and once aloud to feel I've got them. Beautiful sounds and a heart wrenching story. You always show us something new. These got me pondering that Frodo's openness to being enchanted made him vulnerable to being swept away by adventure, beauty, the romance of duty and the wild. And in the last part, though he seems vulnerable and lost, it is this great imaginative romance that protects and comforts him. This landscape is alive just as it always is in Tolkien, and the past is tangible. I'm glad there are sentinels watching over Frodo. Thank you for these beautiful words! And they fit the memory theme perfectly xxx

Re: RE: Yule 2

[jan_u_wine]

wow.....what lovely words, ASD. Thank you.

I think....that as long as well can see and hear and touch that 'great, imaginative romance', then we will heed the Call of the Road. Even though, in Tolkien's modern fairy-tale, the endings are not without sorrow, still, they are *real* endings. Joy mixed with tears, until we come to realize that heroes are the same as all us simple Sams.....

I love what you said and so happy that you took the time to read it thrice. Poetry is really a complicated thing....

[i_o_r_h_a_e_l]

No idea what hearthstone wishes are about but I'm drawn to it. :)

[aliensouldream]

I'm glad! *hugs*

[febobe]

This is lovely! I haven't been able to do any challenges, but I hope I can do something hobbity and Yule-ish for this. Thank you. :)

[aliensouldream]

That would be great! No pressure, just for funs xxx