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coprime_recs) wrote2006-01-04 11:09 pm
coprime_recs) wrote2006-01-04 11:09 pm
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Lord of the Rings: Gifts of Life by fileg
Gifts of Life (Merry-Gimli | G | 1,797 words). Merry and Gimli discuss their wedding gifts for Aragorn and Arwen. It's a really nice look at hobbit and dwarven cultures and what's important to each. Both have thoughtful gifts that supplement each other.
Excerpt:
"It is beautiful, Merry and intricately and carefully wrought. I might make a jeweler out of you if you care to spend some time with my folks. And it will remind him every day of the days he carried this lineage in his heart, tracing the lines to its fulfillment."
"His descent, yes." Merry pushed the big books back and revealed more of the work, its lines and joinings, its crisscrossed patterns like knotwork, its roots and flowers and branches. "But hobbits are concerned with more than just the line from father to son. Men speak of their families as a line – but for us it is more like a web, every strand a life that touched a heart."
Excerpt:
"It is beautiful, Merry and intricately and carefully wrought. I might make a jeweler out of you if you care to spend some time with my folks. And it will remind him every day of the days he carried this lineage in his heart, tracing the lines to its fulfillment."
"His descent, yes." Merry pushed the big books back and revealed more of the work, its lines and joinings, its crisscrossed patterns like knotwork, its roots and flowers and branches. "But hobbits are concerned with more than just the line from father to son. Men speak of their families as a line – but for us it is more like a web, every strand a life that touched a heart."