There and Back Again by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

Author: Dreamflower
Title: There and Back Again
Rating: G
Theme: Pairs (drabbles)
Elements: beginning, end
Summary: Bilbo ponders Adventure.
Word Count: 100

There and Back Again


In the beginning, Adventure didn’t seem so bad. Riding his sturdy little pony behind the Dwarves and Gandalf, he enjoyed the unfamiliar hillsides and farms, sunshine, birdsong, the freshening breeze of early spring, and a merry old inn.

Then came the trolls.

He put that behind him in Rivendell, but goblins, Gollum, wolves, spiders --most of all, the Dragon and the battle afterward made him eager to see home once more.

Then he returned to the Shire. Telling of his time away, he found painted a brighter picture with his words. Adventure didn’t seem so bad at journey’s end.

Comments

[labourslamp.livejournal.com]

This is so true! I love how Bilbo's attitude switches from one extreme to another and back again--not that he hasn't matured, but that he's matured enough to appreciate an adventure in its own right.

[dreamflower]

Yes, and a memory mellows in hindsight. He did, after all, get home again. And so now he can treasure the parts of his Adventure that were good: the friendship, the wonder, the beauty of the Wide World, while glancing over the parts that weren't so good at the time.