Cue 8:  Contrast of beauty and ugliness

Her Precious Lad

            He’d been her precious lad when he was a child, sweet, curious, endearing.  How she’d coddled him after his father was taken by goblins, and more after his mother and his baby sister died after a difficult childbirth.  How beautiful he’d been in her eyes!

            But things had changed with Sméagol on the day his cousin Déagol went missing.  His curiosity was darker; and his sly behavior, sticky fingers, and cruelty had driven away any love his kinsmen had ever held for him.

            Ugly is as ugly does, she thought.

            She shook her head.  “You are banished, Sméagol.  Now, begone!”