Comments | bagma: Another drabble turned vignette

bagma

Another drabble turned vignette

Mar 01, 2009 20:13

Two years ago I wrote a ficlet about honeysuckle overrunning Bag End garden, and today, as I was trying to discipline the one I have in my own garden, I found myself wondering whether the fictional honeysuckle was as resistant as the real one...

( Resilience )

flowers, frodo/sam, garden, fic

Comments 12

belleferret March 1 2009, 22:03:45 UTC

This brought tears to my eyes. Of course Frodo is as resilient as the honeysuckle, and both will bloom again under Sam's loving hands.

bagma March 2 2009, 19:55:27 UTC

Of course Frodo is as resilient as the honeysuckle, and both will bloom again under Sam's loving hands.

I couldn't agree more. It's too bad that Tolkien didn't share the view that LotR needed a F/S happy ending!:)

Thanks a million for your nice comment!

claudia603 March 1 2009, 22:49:46 UTC

Oh, I love the honeysuckle as a representation of Frodo blooming again, too!

bagma March 2 2009, 19:58:58 UTC

Well, honeysuckle is a bit like hobbits, after all: resistant, and maybe a little too tenacious sometimes.:)

Thanks very much for reading and commenting!

annwyn55 March 2 2009, 03:58:46 UTC

What a beautiful and hopeful little story. Of course the honeysuckle will bloom again - and so will Frodo. Eventually.

In a funny coincidence, I just discovered that the last cold snap's killed my honeysuckle. At least it seems so. I need Sam's loving hands!

bagma March 2 2009, 20:23:27 UTC

Eventually

That's the crux of the matter, really. I want Frodo and Sam to be happy in the Shire, with no Rosie on the horizon, and it's too bad that Tolkien felt the need to separate them, then made them wait for sixty years before giving them the happy ending they deserved. Well, I can understand his reasons, intellectually, but that doesn't mean I like it!:)

I'm sorry to hear about your honeysuckle. Where's Sam when we need him?!:) Maybe there's still hope, though. It's a very resilient crop; a few year ago mine was drenched in herbicide by mistake, and much to my surprise he resurrected the next year.

addie71 March 2 2009, 17:20:31 UTC

What a sweet, gentle story.

bagma March 3 2009, 18:15:44 UTC

Well, I definitely needed something sweet and gentle when I wrote it, to counterbalance the deleterious effects of RL.:)

Thank you for reading and commenting!

jillian1127 March 2 2009, 18:43:55 UTC

I love how sweet this is-thanks! And I am loving your icon!

bagma March 3 2009, 18:21:15 UTC

I adore the icon too. annwyn55 really has a genius for manips.

Thank you very much for reading and commenting!:)