Toys can allow children to speak out when life is frightening, they can be friends where all others have turned their backs, and they can be the confidants children long for but don't have. Take a toy from Dale and tell its tale. Bring it through a single child or many, one generation or more, The Shire, Rivendell, or maybe just the deeper mines in the Lonely Mountain. What is the toy? Who owns it, and why does this child (or these children) cherish this one toy about all others?

- Erulisse (one L)