The Seafarers' Tree [Bilbo, Aragorn] G
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tolkien100Title: The Seafarers' Tree
By: HF
Work: Lord of the Rings, references to Silmarillion
Rating/Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Disclaimer: The genius is Tolkien's.
Notes: Sequel to The Mother of Day. Answers to Bilbo's riddle are contained herein.
THE SEAFARERS' TREE
“Master Baggins!”
Bilbo peered up at the Ranger.
“Yes, Master Strider?”
“I have found the answers to your riddle.”
“Well, let’s hear them!” the hobbit said, impatient.
“I walked under the mellyrn of Lórien; to my despair saw Celebrimbor’s holly on Durin’s doors. I once saw your Party Tree from afar, and though I swam the Entwade, I never saw a shepherd-tree. I learned from Elrond’s scrolls that Yavanna filled Anar from the radiance of Laurelin.”
“You missed one,” said Bilbo.
“That Tree has died,” said Aragorn. “Since then, no man has seen a child of Nimloth East of the Sea.”
END
Notes: The sequence of Aragorn's answers is pretty much the same as the riddle Bilbo poses, except for the last two. The mallorn is the "gold-crownéd tree"; the "door-keeping tree" is the holly carved on Durin's doors by Celebrimbor (I figure Bilbo might have read about them); the "tree ‘round which revelers sway" is the Party Tree in Hobbiton; the Ent, though technically not a tree, is the "shepherding tree"; the Seafarers’ tree is the sapling of Nimloth rescued by Isildur, and the "one white tree" in the ancient rhyme; and "the tree that’s the mother of day" is the tree Laurelin, from which Yavanna took the light to make the sun.
Yes. Yay for riddles :)
By: HF
Work: Lord of the Rings, references to Silmarillion
Rating/Warnings: None
Pairings: None
Disclaimer: The genius is Tolkien's.
Notes: Sequel to The Mother of Day. Answers to Bilbo's riddle are contained herein.
THE SEAFARERS' TREE
“Master Baggins!”
Bilbo peered up at the Ranger.
“Yes, Master Strider?”
“I have found the answers to your riddle.”
“Well, let’s hear them!” the hobbit said, impatient.
“I walked under the mellyrn of Lórien; to my despair saw Celebrimbor’s holly on Durin’s doors. I once saw your Party Tree from afar, and though I swam the Entwade, I never saw a shepherd-tree. I learned from Elrond’s scrolls that Yavanna filled Anar from the radiance of Laurelin.”
“You missed one,” said Bilbo.
“That Tree has died,” said Aragorn. “Since then, no man has seen a child of Nimloth East of the Sea.”
END
Notes: The sequence of Aragorn's answers is pretty much the same as the riddle Bilbo poses, except for the last two. The mallorn is the "gold-crownéd tree"; the "door-keeping tree" is the holly carved on Durin's doors by Celebrimbor (I figure Bilbo might have read about them); the "tree ‘round which revelers sway" is the Party Tree in Hobbiton; the Ent, though technically not a tree, is the "shepherding tree"; the Seafarers’ tree is the sapling of Nimloth rescued by Isildur, and the "one white tree" in the ancient rhyme; and "the tree that’s the mother of day" is the tree Laurelin, from which Yavanna took the light to make the sun.
Yes. Yay for riddles :)
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Date: 2004-09-29 10:20 pm (UTC)And yay for me, I got one, and would've gotten another except that narrowmindedness did me in - I tried to think of trees that Estel would have known about, rather than Strider. Bah.
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Date: 2004-09-29 10:29 pm (UTC)We likes this, precioussss. Smart. Very Sssssmart.
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Date: 2004-09-30 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-30 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-30 05:33 am (UTC)And I loved this bit:
“That Tree has died,” said Aragorn. “Since then, no man has seen a child of Nimloth East of the Sea.”
*happy anticipatory dance*
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Date: 2004-09-30 08:31 am (UTC)And this makes me giggle: Bilbo peered up at the Ranger. I can just see Bilbo craning his neck to see the tall Man...
~Kris
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Date: 2004-09-30 09:58 am (UTC)Very nice.
I'm quite proud of myself for getting most of the answers right - the only ones I missed were the holly and Nimloth. 4/6 isn't too shoddy.
< Elvish pedant mode>
The plural of 'mallorn' is 'mellryn'. The first 'a' transmutes to 'e', just as it does from adan to edain. The o, becomes y, as in 'amon' becoming 'emyn', so it should technically be 'mellyrn', but those sensible, lyrical elves (and Tolkien) decided that was horrible so it became 'mellryn'
< /Elvish pedant mode>
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Date: 2004-09-30 05:29 pm (UTC)Took me a couple of reads through both drabbles to connect the tree with the proper riddle!
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Date: 2004-10-01 11:10 pm (UTC)I tried to think of trees that Estel would have known about, rather than Strider.
Some riddles take a long time to solve ;)
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Date: 2004-10-01 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-01 11:12 pm (UTC)*happy anticipatory dance*
Like
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Date: 2004-10-01 11:14 pm (UTC)It's such an odd mental image... a four foot-ish hobbit craning his neck to look a fairly tall Numenorean in the eye. Though I think Aragorn would kneel or bend down out of consideration :)
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Date: 2004-10-01 11:14 pm (UTC)*bounce* I know! Which makes it even better :)
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Date: 2007-03-09 01:13 am (UTC)Lovely. I absolutely adore your Bilbo.