A Story Begun - by Larner

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B2MeM Challenge: 2009 The happiest moment in the last few days.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Sam and Elanor Gamgee
Pairings: n/a
Summary: What might prompt Sam to begin a tale of the former Rascal of Buckland?



A Story Begun

“You really want this pup, lass?” Sam asked Elanor, hanging over the box where Pippin’s dog lay with her brood.

She looked up earnestly. “Oh, yes, Sam-dad. I’ve always wanted a dog!”

He shook his head. “Folks about the Hill won’t know what t’think of a dog in Bag End.”

“Why didn’t Uncle Frodo have a dog?”

His mouth twitched. “First, dogs made his uncle as raised him sneeze. But it was those dogs of Farmer Maggot’s as chased him off his farm back when Frodo was but a lad still as turned him off dogs for sure. You see, ….”

I hope to meet my own new dog fairly soon, perhaps next week!

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Melian is now with Brendi and me, and he loves her dearly. A lot of the uncertainty and fear he expressed after his sister was taken has left him, and he is so happy to have a friend to play with. She is seven months old and already slightly taller than he at the shoulder. She's about reached her full size, and is a pale cream sable as opposed to his orange color or Pandora's black. And if she chews on another book she'll be swatted! Heh!

In my-verse Saradoc was allergic to dogs, and so Frodo didn't grow up around them without knowing why not. Thus, when Maggot's dogs chased him off Bamfurlong it put him off dogs for good, to his detriment.