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Of Music, Hobbits, And Beards



It was normal for Tahitoa to feel a bit tired lately. He and the mistress had been working late into the night on music sheets and words for the performance. Tahitoa was  very happy to be back in the Shire ; simple hobbit folk enjoying a simple life, a bit like his own people back in Maur Tulhau. Tahitoa did not understand the people of Bree, tall or short, the Breelanders were a mystery to him, and not one he was in the rush to unveil. When his mistress  told him it was time to  go back  to the land of the hobbits, Tahitoa spent a whole day and a whole night packing boxes, without even stopping for a meal or a nap, so eager was him to  see the Shire again, after all, the hobbit land was the reason why he had some  so far away from his own home in the first place. Tahitoa had traveled with Miss yule and the other Shire Rose hobbits, and  once they were settled back in Waymeet,  he had continued his ride to the North of the Shire , onwards to the Greenfields and to  the small village of Brockenborings.

Here he took lodgings in a simple room  on the back of The Plough and Stars Inn , and since then had been working with Amorey of  music  for the great performance. Tahitoa aslo met with  some hobbits , a lass with  a funny  name, Noruby , a chubby hobbit lad that was pretending to be an elf although his robe was covered in crumbs, and an other fellow  with a smile on his face but sad eyes. There were all nice to Tahitoa and he felt at ease with them. They all understood Tahitoa did not like to talk much,  too many words do often make a hobbit late for dinner , and that is no good.  Tahitoa was told he had to play the part of a dwarf in the performance, and he was happy about that because he could just forget about shave   in the morning and let his beard grow longer.