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The Ringbearer and the Rose by RabidSamFan (G)
Fandom: LOTR
Pairing: Sam/Rosie
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rabidsamfan
Author Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/~rabidsamfan
Why this must be read:
In the shared imagination of LOTR hobbit-fandom, Rosie Cotton and Frodo Baggins are often set at odds over Sam Gamgee.rabidsamfan has the insight to unite them in their hobbit goodness and love of Sam to care about and for him, and each other. This story also features some deceptively simple, luminously beautiful prose, including a description of the magic in Galadriel's gift that perfectly fits Middle-Earth; all in all, this story is truly fitting to read during the springtime and its renewal, or anytime you need to remind yourself of beauty and hope.
He took her hands in his. "I won't lie to you, Rose Cotton. If you choose to marry him you shall always have times when you feel second best, because you do not need Sam as much as Sam needs you. You shall have to love him as he has loved me, knowing all the while that my eyes have gone to Bilbo -- yes, and even to the Ring -- before him. I might have withered without Sam's care, but it was always there, and I took it for granted. It is only now that I am learning how much it has meant to me."
She couldn't answer. She had to think. "But if you go... if you go before the baby comes... he'll follow you, won't he? He'd follow you to the moon. And I'd be all alone." It would hurt worse than it had the last time, if she won Sam and lost him again.
Frodo put his face in his hands. "I thought to go come autumn," he admitted. "When the leaves turn gold again. But I shall send a message to Elrond and tell him that I cannot go until I am certain of Sam's healing. Bilbo..." his voice thickened, "Bilbo might last another year. And even if he doesn't... It's not like he hasn't already beaten the Old Took is it?"
"Oh, Mr. Frodo," she said, and gathered him to her again. "Oh, me dear, me dear. If it's worth as much to you as that, then of course I'll marry Samwise Gamgee."
"Thank you," he told her shoulder.
She felt laughter welling up inside her like a song, the way she had a year ago, and she let it free into the bright sunlight. "Now all I have to do is tell Sam!"
The Ringbearer and the Rose
Pairing: Sam/Rosie
Author on LJ:
rabidsamfanAuthor Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/~rabidsamfan
Why this must be read:
In the shared imagination of LOTR hobbit-fandom, Rosie Cotton and Frodo Baggins are often set at odds over Sam Gamgee.
rabidsamfan has the insight to unite them in their hobbit goodness and love of Sam to care about and for him, and each other. This story also features some deceptively simple, luminously beautiful prose, including a description of the magic in Galadriel's gift that perfectly fits Middle-Earth; all in all, this story is truly fitting to read during the springtime and its renewal, or anytime you need to remind yourself of beauty and hope. He took her hands in his. "I won't lie to you, Rose Cotton. If you choose to marry him you shall always have times when you feel second best, because you do not need Sam as much as Sam needs you. You shall have to love him as he has loved me, knowing all the while that my eyes have gone to Bilbo -- yes, and even to the Ring -- before him. I might have withered without Sam's care, but it was always there, and I took it for granted. It is only now that I am learning how much it has meant to me."
She couldn't answer. She had to think. "But if you go... if you go before the baby comes... he'll follow you, won't he? He'd follow you to the moon. And I'd be all alone." It would hurt worse than it had the last time, if she won Sam and lost him again.
Frodo put his face in his hands. "I thought to go come autumn," he admitted. "When the leaves turn gold again. But I shall send a message to Elrond and tell him that I cannot go until I am certain of Sam's healing. Bilbo..." his voice thickened, "Bilbo might last another year. And even if he doesn't... It's not like he hasn't already beaten the Old Took is it?"
"Oh, Mr. Frodo," she said, and gathered him to her again. "Oh, me dear, me dear. If it's worth as much to you as that, then of course I'll marry Samwise Gamgee."
"Thank you," he told her shoulder.
She felt laughter welling up inside her like a song, the way she had a year ago, and she let it free into the bright sunlight. "Now all I have to do is tell Sam!"
The Ringbearer and the Rose