tolkien100 | An eye in a blue face, by Himring (non-Challenge)

Author : Himring
Fandom : Silmarillion, The Hobbit
Rating : General
Characters : Arien, Yavanna
Disclaimer : Arien and Yavanna are Tolkien's, and Bilbo's riddle is also Tolkien's.
Spoilers : none
Summary: Arien looks down on Middle-earth and, thanks to Yavanna, she sees... Can you guess? (Gollum once guessed it long ago.)

‘I am not tired of going to and fro above the earth!’ said Arien.

‘But?’ asked Yavanna.

‘Sometimes I wish I could see a face from those low places look back at me. But all turn their eyes away. I understand. They do not wish to be blinded…’

‘Something can be done about that,’ said Yavanna.

‘I am simply too bright!’

‘Come next spring, look down. You will see.’

Arien could not fathom her riddling words, until she looked down out of her high place—and on sunlit lawns saw the faces of a thousand daisies nodding up at her.