O70 The Memory of Party Trees
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b2memB2MeM Challenge: "A Long-Expected Party" (Alternate Viewpoints)
Format: Double drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings: Tree-death
Characters: The Party Tree (seriously), Bilbo, Frodo, Saruman, Samwise
Summary: The Party Tree's perception of Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, and what happened later.
Climbing hands bearing laughter, backs propped sitting, the tree adds these things to each annual ring. It knows Bilbo Baggins who comes springtime and autumn to tell it poetry, and Frodo Baggins who reads beneath it or brings cousins to climb.
A hundred lanterns, frosted glass or exotically patterned paper, are hung on the tree as an autumn approaches. The quiet field fills with light and bodies and song. The tree has not known anything like this.
Bilbo Baggins, no older yet weary, stands under the tree, then departs. That is the last season he is added to its rings.
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Seventeen more rings have graced the tree when stifling smokes arrive. Autumn again approaches, bringing now the wizard who regards the tree spitefully though it knows him not.
Metal bites through the rings of years. The tree falls prone in the field. As autumn’s colors flare and fall and the smoke deepens, the tree lies dying its slow death.
Winter nears, the smokes ebb, and a familiar gentle presence returns. Into the earth Samwise Gamgee commends a seed. The tree goes slowly into the soil, embracing the seed as it emerges to commit the coming years to its own rings.
Format: Double drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings: Tree-death
Characters: The Party Tree (seriously), Bilbo, Frodo, Saruman, Samwise
Summary: The Party Tree's perception of Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday, and what happened later.
Climbing hands bearing laughter, backs propped sitting, the tree adds these things to each annual ring. It knows Bilbo Baggins who comes springtime and autumn to tell it poetry, and Frodo Baggins who reads beneath it or brings cousins to climb.
A hundred lanterns, frosted glass or exotically patterned paper, are hung on the tree as an autumn approaches. The quiet field fills with light and bodies and song. The tree has not known anything like this.
Bilbo Baggins, no older yet weary, stands under the tree, then departs. That is the last season he is added to its rings.
____
Seventeen more rings have graced the tree when stifling smokes arrive. Autumn again approaches, bringing now the wizard who regards the tree spitefully though it knows him not.
Metal bites through the rings of years. The tree falls prone in the field. As autumn’s colors flare and fall and the smoke deepens, the tree lies dying its slow death.
Winter nears, the smokes ebb, and a familiar gentle presence returns. Into the earth Samwise Gamgee commends a seed. The tree goes slowly into the soil, embracing the seed as it emerges to commit the coming years to its own rings.
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