I Aear can vên na mar.
Bilbo in the snow
Howling ghost they reappear
In mountains that are stacked with fear
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, “I will try again tomorrow”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out with a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.
Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did.
“He will help us or he will kill us”
”There’s a lot more to him than appearances suggest.”
like a comet pulled from orbit
as it passes a sun
like a stream that meets a boulder
halfway through the wood

“This is your home, dear Frodo”
Bilbo & baby Frodo
Taken from my personal sketchbook.
Pencil + digital edits
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A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!
“I would have doubted me too.”