Yay! I am so happy to see that you came all the way here to read it and liked it, Erunyauve ("too lazy to log in"--I feel your pain there! I get so upset when I have to think about a password for a website).

Probably not, well, almost certainly not, Tolkien's intent. But I find it almost impossible to read it any other way.

Lovely stories for a spring night. I want spring so bad. It was the depth of bleak midwinter the entire time I was working on this story (weeks and weeks in my case--very slow writer). A large part of the reason I picked the prompt and chose the carol to inspire me.