Star-Dust (G-rated drabble, Sam)

[browngirl]

Written for the tolkien_weekly Dust challenge.They had a *lot* of angst over there.

Title: Star-Dust
Rating: G
Character: Sam Gardner Gamgee
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine but the joy Professor Tolkien's works have brought me.


It was surely just idle fancy, Samwise said to himself, and if the past year's journeys hadn't cured him of fancies naught ever would. And still, it seemed that the Lady's gift of earth from her garden had a soft shine to it, even in sunlight; a faint glimmer surrounded every precious grain of dust he dropped at the roots of his new young trees.

It was just an idle fancy, or so Sam believed, till he saw that daytime starshine gleam off the mallorn's silver bole and golden leaves, till he saw it shimmering in his baby daughter's hair.

Comments

[jewelsong.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Especially the last phrase.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I just had the image, of Sam standing under the mallorn with Elanor in his arms....

[shirebound]

Oooh, "daytime starshine". Love it.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I *love* Tolkien's imagery of light; it's going to be part of me till I die. So these things are my small homage to it. :)

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

*melts*

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*beams at you*

[aprilkat.livejournal.com]

Lovely imagery, and so Sam!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you! He is a little self-depricating. We all jjust need to tell him how wonderful he is. :D

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is simply lovely. Thank you!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you for telling me so! And I love the icon. :D

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Oh, the beauty. The heartaching, tender beauty. "till he saw it shimmering in his baby daughter's hair." Incredibly lovely image.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for telling me so. :)

[archerlass.livejournal.com]

I love the idea that all that comes from those grains (and from Sam!) has that lovely shimmer. :)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Sam-shine, like sunshine but better! :D