City on the Lake (hobbits, drabble, rated G)

[browngirl]

It's Original Character Day over here at Ruby's journal. And it's the Friday to a long hard stressful week. Hooray for fiction.

Title: City on the Lake
Characters: Mayor Samwise Gamgee and two of his relatives
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Warnings: Tweenage rebelliousness.
Disclaimer: The narrator may be my creation, but hobbits in general, Sam Gamgee and all his sisters in specific, and Middle-Earth in all its glory belong to Professor Tolkien.
Written for: tolkien_weekly's Life Aquatic challenge.


The King's rebuilt Annuminas, a mouthful of a name, and come there to bide, and I've formed a mind to see those white towers flutter their flags by a shining sheet of water. Mam cries out against my going, calls it wildness and foolish fancy, but turning to my uncle she's found herself checked, for he's Mayor Sam, who was a Traveller before. Though he says I mustn't go till I'm of age, he also says there's worse sights for a hobbit's eyes than the King's new city on the lake. Mam’s right displeased with that answer, she is!

Comments

[shirebound]

Good one! he also says there's worse sights for a hobbit's eyes than the King's new city on the lake. And no one would know that better than Mayor Sam.

:D

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

This hobbit lad just started talking to me. *laugh* All I had to do was write.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful, and it rings absolutely true. Well done!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :D I've had hobbits on the brain recently. (Recently? for over a year now...)

[danachan.livejournal.com]

I do love how this feels. The voice of it is just so -- right.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie. :) This boy just started talking to me, you know?

[archerlass.livejournal.com]

she's found herself checked, for he's Mayor Sam, who was a Traveller before.
I love how Sam's word is the final say.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Well, he's the Mayor. :D