I-22 Four Word Drabbles Bingo Card

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: I-22 Four Word Drabbles Bingo Card, Words used: Small, Cascade, Dogwood, Order
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Treebeard and OC
Pairings: None
Title:  "News of the Entwives"
Summary: A messenger arrives with news for Treebeard





“Where have you come from?” Treebeard boomed.

The small tree before him, shook as if a great wind were blowing its branches.

“From the forest near the Shire.  There, I have flowered ten times.”

“Why are you here?” Treebeard asked.

“I bring news of the Entwives.  We heard you were seeking them.”

Treebeard looked skeptical.  He leaned down closer.

The dogwood looked up, watching the moss cascade forward from the top-most branches of the old Ent. He cleared his throat and began.  “I shall not be hasty.  I shall tell the tale in proper order.”

“A good beginning,” Treebeard smiled.

GW

03-04-2012

Comments

[hhimring]

I’m glad that the Review Prompt for today made me check the posts here for ents, as I had missed this post of yours earlier. I think you’ve done extremely well here in picking up that thread from Two Towers when Tolkien makes Treebeard ask the hobbits about the Shire, saying it sounds like the kind of place the Entwives would like. So the little tree (I suppose it can’t actually be an enting, although it behaves almost like one, but has to be a limb-lithe tree) comes from near the Shire—and it seems very appropriate that it should be a little tree, a dogwood, both because it comes from hobbit territory and because dogwoods are the kind of tree that also might grow in an entwife’s garden. You’ve worked out nicely both the contrast between the Treebeard and the dogwood and the common ground between them: the one is tall and ancient and powerful, the other small and young and weak, but both are thoroughly treeish and both adhere to the same entish traditions (and you managed to put all the prompts into a very treeish or entish context). I like the way you’ve used entish manners to keep the information from us what the news the dogwood is bringing actually is, leaving us to speculate—because clearly that would be quite another story and one you wouldn’t want to squeeze into the tail end of a drabble.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for this lovely review. For some reason, the minute I saw the word dogwood, among the four drabble prompts, this little snippet came to mind. Treebeard's story of the Entwives has always interested me. I too, wonder where they went. : )

There really weren't enough word to allow for a proper tale, and in a way, I was glad. The mystery of the Entwives is one I enjoy thinking about, but I'm never completely satisfied with the answers I invent. : )

Thank you so much for your encouraging words.