Amorey

Peppy arrived at the house in Overhill. The smell of freshly tanned leather overpowered the smell of the pine trees in the surrounding forest. He remembered standing here for the first time: Amorey took him to see the house in Overhill where she had grown up. She had shown him her room and the toys she played with as a young lassie.

One day Peppy received a letter from his elven minstrel trainer in Rivendell, the one that healed him in his childhood and who had remained a friend for life. It was this time in his life again, it read, that he was deemed good enough to receive more training. Usually Peppy then went to the most nearby minstrel with a training licence, but this letter urged him to come to the Grand Master of Minstrels himself.

Peppy had learned that for a hobbit it is no use to try and fathom the deeper meanings of elf thought, so he packed for the long journey from Bramblebury to Rivendell.

Dark clouds drifted across the sky above the village, obscuring the stars. A distant bell tolled the midnight message for the slumbering Shire. Fresh drizzle  was falling over the fields, and woodland as a cold Autumn wind blew. Beneath what was once known as Shire Rose's Hall, candles burned bright in their stands. The secret cavern hole reachable only by using a hidden passage in the in the Delving Fields, on the north side of the village of Bramblebury.

My life has taken another twist, a half-turn. It is amazing how many things can happen to a hobbit in just one day!

A neatly written  wax-sealed letter addressed to

Gerebaldo Took - Caras Galadhon - Lothlórien

Dear uncle, Greetings.

Peppy walked into the Bird and Baby Inn, eyes gazing straight ahead. Contrary to his habit he did not greet the regular customers but walked straight to the bar. Throwing a handful of silver coins on the wooden surface he said to Carlo Blagrove: "a glass of your strongest, and keep them coming". Carlo shrugged, quickly collected the coins and prepared a mug of Blagrove's Brown which he served to the freckle-faced hobbit. Peppy took a big gulp, slammed the mug down and made a face of disliking. So bitter!