"There's No Place like Home" - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 10: "Traveling is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Elanor
Pairings: n/a
Summary: What is luxury when opposed to home?



“There’s No Place like Home”

Elanor sat down upon the great bed given her in Annuminas, her eyes wide with awe. “Sam-dad, was it like this for you, there in Gondor, after the Ring was destroyed and peace had returned? This big, beautiful, and comfortable?”

His eyes were thoughtful. “Yes, lass, much like this.”

She shook her head with the thought of it. “How could you have left a place like this to come home to Number Three again?”

He gave a twisted smile. “I come home ’cause it was just that—home. It’s where I was planted, and where I wanted to be.”

Comments

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can just see this! Perfect!

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the images and situation ring true in your heart!

[shirebound]

Planted and rooted, indeed. Dear Sam.

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Oh, but how true! Planted and rooted deeply indeed, but able in the end to bloom to fill all of Middle Earth as well as the Undying Lands.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Perfect. That is it exactly. (That and the need to constantly carry a stool to stand on :P )

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Oh, but thanks for the mention of the stool. (Giggling happily at the image it brings to mind!) Thanks!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

How wise Sam is.

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Indeed. He has the practical wisdom that can be the saving of all. Thanks!

[nialoke]

Delightful!
It’s where I was planted, and where I wanted to be.
"Planted" - this seems like the perfect imagery for Sam :)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Oh, indeed the proper metaphor for Sam to use. Thanks so!