Well, after 'The Wounded Hand' I was in an Elanor mood. :) Elanor Gamgee falls asleep on the Hill above Bag End, and in a dream learns the meaning of love.
Love
I lay upon a green green hill, a-staring at the sky and sang a song of days long past as clouds went drifting by.
The Sun went down, the Moon arose and stars flamed in the sky— I lay upon that green green hill as dreams went drifting by.
The Moon sailed on across the sky but there before my eyes one dream there stopped, and sat with me— both beautiful and wise.
He sat beside me on the hill with quiet eyes and fair I might have thought a star had come to me from heaven’s air.
I questioned him on many things in earth and sea and skies and all the ways that folk must go when shadow o’er them lies.
Why the highest should suffer most and where the answer lies for sorrow in the tales I love and tears in Sam-dad’s eyes.
He looked at me and said ‘Dear child, ‘tis love that suffers so. And love it is that makes green fields rise from out the fallow.
Deep love it is that takes the weight that others fear to bear, and lights anew the darkened sky and makes all sorrows fair.’
Then wondering I took his hand and marveled not to find that there were only four fingers with my own five entwined.
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