I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago

[elvenking]

CHARACTERS: Frodo Baggins and Thranduil
LOCATION: Level 13, room 086
WARNINGS: None.
SUMMARY: Frodo wanted to hear about Bilbo's adventures from someone else who was there for part of it. The Elvenking is happy to oblige.
NOTES: Uhhhh spoilers for The Hobbit? Like you can spoil a 75-year-old book.


The tea is on the table. There is a loaf of french bread, cheese, and various fruits. Thranduil has not catered for himself in thousands of years, but he hasn't forgotten the private, working-class simplicity of life in Lindon. Setting things out with his own hands is somewhat soothing, a callback to a difficult but quiet part of life under the rule of a king he had never been able to really call his own. It's direct. There is a clear course of action, for once.

He is slicing the bread when Frodo arrives.

Comments

[ringbearer]

On his part Frodo makes certain to not be late. He has little to offer that the King had not said he would make in turn, and yet he comes with a few things. A treacle tart, as best as they can be made on a spaceship, and a curious eye. He wouldn't deny he was honored at the opportunity, of one thing, to exchange tales and another with one who was part of a tale that shaped his life as it had.

Timely, is the key. So soon enough there is a knock on the door, a polite shuffle of his feet. This was a nervousness of an entirely different kind than the ones Frodo had felt before now!