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Author: Shirebound
Title: What Every Parent Knows
Format: Ficlet
Fandom: LOTR
Rating: General
Word Count:681
Summary: On Tol Eressëa, Frodo discovers the joys and frustrations of 'parenthood' -- through the loving yet mischievous ways of an ever-growing family of geese.
Characters: Frodo, Sam, Gandalf
Author notes In my stories, Bilbo lives quite a long time in the West. The April prompt is ‘duck’, but somehow all these geese waddled in instead. Quite fluffy and rather silly.

( What Every Parent Knows )

Author: Shirebound
Title: The Best We Have
Format: ficlet
Fandom: LOTR
Rating: General
Word Count: 310
Summary: Boromir’s education about hobbits begins.
Characters: Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli

( The Best We Have )

Author: Shirebound
Title: From Our Hearts to Yours
Format: Drabble
Fandom: LOTR
Prompts: New Year, Perfect Drabble
Rating: General
Word Count: 100
Summary: In Gondor, nothing is forgotten.


FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS

It was Faramir who began it, encouraging the Rangers to add something new to the Standing Silence. The tradition grew to include their families, then the common folk until, as the years passed, no one remembered when it had been otherwise. Throughout Gondor, at sunset on New Year’s, all people stood quietly and looked to the north. They tried to imagine the Shire, from which the Ring-bearers had come, and, as one, sent forth their thoughts and good wishes.

"We do not forget. May your lands know peace, and your lives only joy. From our hearts to yours... thank you."

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Author: Shirebound
Title: In Innocent Hands
Format: ficlet
Fandom: LOTR
Rating: General
Word Count: 670
Summary: Gandalf ponders how an Elvish tradition has been transformed in the Shire. A gentle ficlet for Yule.
Characters: Gandalf, Bilbo, Frodo, Pippin.
Author Note: Written for a 2006 story challenge in which I was assigned "candy canes".


( In Innocent Hands )