Everyone Got A Place - by Elwen of the Hidden Valley

[elwendell]

B2MeM Prompt:B7 Card:Concerning Hobbits(Geneology) and Number:40
Format:drabble
Genre:gen
Rating:gen
Warnings:Misogyny
Characters:Ted Sandyman
Pairings:none
Creator’s Notes (optional):Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the writer.
Summary:Ted Sandyman is a bitter hobbit.



EVERYONE GOT A PLACE

The missus likes them family trees. Of course, names is all she can read and that's for the best. Females don't have the brains for readin'. I could have married better. She tricked me into it, for the bairns sake. Females got no strength, so they use cunnin'.

I'm a Sandyman and we was well placed, until that Drogo came to Hobbiton. Grandda warned us to keep an eye on them Baggins', with their airs and graces. Readin' and writin' for folk was grandda's job until they came, and a good earner it was. Now theres just this old mill.

END

Comments

[grundyscribbling]

Bitter indeed! He certainly sounds like a hobbit to avoid.

[elwendell]

I think he found it rather easy to fall in with Sharkey's plans later.

[erulissedances]

Oh my, he is extremely bitter, and as is the norm with people like that, everything is always the fault of everyone else. What a shame. You would think someone with a mill and a waterwheel would be happy with the steady sound of the wheel and the grinding stones, and living by the water like they probably did.

- Erulissse (one L)

[elwendell]

Sadly, Ted wasn't happy until he had knocked it down and built the horrible travesty of a mill that our four hero's found upon their return.

[lindahoyland]

You portray his character well.

[elwendell]

Thanks. He was a nasty piece of work.