Acorns and Oak Trees - Lferion
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tolkienshortfanworksAuthor: Lferion
Title: Acorns and Oak Trees
Text type / Format: Drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion - Akallabeth
Prompt: TSFW Sept theme prompt Harvest, SWG Restoration and Rebuilding Instadrabble prompt: "I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring." - Maya Angelou
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Notes:
Summary: After the Numenor has fallen, and people return to the lands that were once forest
The acorn harvest was plentiful this year, enough of the oaks finally mature enough to produce in quantity. Half the yield is still reserved for planting -- and oh, it is so heartening to see the forest spreading over the hills again, where before were only shattered stumps and sunburnt, scrubby thickets, the desolation of axes indiscriminately wielded. We intend to be better stewards than those now gone. Well, not entirely gone, moved south mostly. They left us some useful foundations -- very effective as threshing floors, for our small barley and grain fields; we do not build our houses on them.
Title: Acorns and Oak Trees
Text type / Format: Drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion - Akallabeth
Prompt: TSFW Sept theme prompt Harvest, SWG Restoration and Rebuilding Instadrabble prompt: "I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring." - Maya Angelou
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Notes:
Summary: After the Numenor has fallen, and people return to the lands that were once forest
The acorn harvest was plentiful this year, enough of the oaks finally mature enough to produce in quantity. Half the yield is still reserved for planting -- and oh, it is so heartening to see the forest spreading over the hills again, where before were only shattered stumps and sunburnt, scrubby thickets, the desolation of axes indiscriminately wielded. We intend to be better stewards than those now gone. Well, not entirely gone, moved south mostly. They left us some useful foundations -- very effective as threshing floors, for our small barley and grain fields; we do not build our houses on them.
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Date: 2022-09-25 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-25 05:53 pm (UTC)I was particularly struck by the bit about the foundations used as threshing floors.
(This might even be part of the same continuity as my own take on that prompt, after time has moved on a bit, that is. Or it could be an entirely different continuity, of course!)
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Date: 2022-09-25 07:44 pm (UTC)