Tolkien Fan Fiction
| 12 |
| Stone Under Hill |
Day 12: Card: The Wheel of Fortune |
| She met Otho after the funeral. She'd gone for a riverside walk, and there he'd been, and willing. She'd acted. By next summer, Lobelia quit Hardbottle as Mrs. Sackville-Baggins. Then came Lotho; she'd thought that between Southfarthing and son, she couldn't want, that the stones would settle. They hadn't. They'd ground on, grown heavier: her boy, she'd thought, shouldn't want as she had. She'd do anything to spare him, and Southfarthing... it grew weedy in her eyes. Then she'd seen Bag End – a chance sight put flesh on Otho's coveting, and she'd felt the longing weigh her down again... |