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Title: If ever you met me, you wouldn't forget me... (#1964)
Author: nienor
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: Written for OSA Drabble Challenge #13: Seeing Something New
Published: 08 Jun 2005
Updated: 08 Jun 2005
Warnings:
Type: General
Characters: Sam


Chapter 1 - Written for OSA Drabble Challenge #13: Seeing Something New

It was the moment when Sam forgot about the quest, about his master, about Gollum.

He only saw it stomping towards them. His excitement drove every feeling of fear away.

This was even greater than the Elves, greater than seeing the Lady of the Golden Wood herself.

It was completely real, not something made of light and stars and music, but solid and utterly alive.

He thought of the old rhyme from the Shire he had recited not so long ago,

and he realised that he and his master were probably the only living hobbits to have seen an oliphaunt.




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When I read the subject of the challenge, I couldn't possibly think of anything else, though the idea is not that creative.. Hope you don't mind..
And as the question was asked, Sam really calls them oliphaunts, maybe it's only a shire term...
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