I've got this plot bunny, and I just can't get it to do anything but glare at me...

Boromir after the evacuation of Ithilien and the destruction of the bridge in Osgiliath, wondering whether or not the dream Faramir describes to him is important, or just born of stress and fever, and as he becomes convinced, wondering how to keep Faramir from going off into danger alone.

Has someone already written this? And if not, could you please? The bunny is getting very disgruntled.

Just a drabble bunny, or two, or three, because I'm a little blank at the moment, and I need to write something as a distraction but haven't the concentration for anything longer.

Having a sudden fit of re-reading the book, and as I wander through the prologue and the "history" of the Red Book I am tempted to "play the game" and assume that Tolkien is pretty much translating what was written by Bilbo, Frodo and Sam (as well as Merry and assorted scribes of Gondor in the appendices).

But if so, then a curious phenomenon arises. Presumably Frodo was writing the parts about what happened in Shelob's cave through the coronation, but the point-of-view character for Frodo and Sam's part of the quest is usually Sam. And Sam probably wrote what we know about the recovery of the Shire and the Grey Havens, right? But that's where we see Frodo hiding his injuries for the sake of not bothering Sam and Rosie...

So -- playing the game -- did Sam revise what Frodo wrote about Cirith Ungol and the Mountain? Or did Frodo write what Sam told him about those places because he couldn't -- or wouldn't -- remember his own thoughts and actions? And how did Sam know about what Frodo had been thinking during that long year of writing and waiting? What conversations did they have between the time that Frodo admitted his intentions and they actually reached the harbor?

*shoos plotbunnies out into the world...*

( let the whining continue herein )

Rereading the journey south and realizing how very seldom Tolkien gives us any clue about what sort of foods they took along. Except for lembas of course. And so many of the meals were cold ones! I'm thinking deer jerky, pemmican, and whatever they might find in the way of apples and berries. Aragorn and Legolas had to have gone hunting or foraging some of the time. Either that or they had bags of holding. One pony just can't carry a month's worth of food for nine guys who are working very very hard. Especially not when four of them are hobbits -- and we know from the book that hobbits can eat a prodigious amount of food. Its not just a matter of six small meals here...

Does anyone know of a website where someone else might have done the work of researching hobbit/traveling cookery for me? I already have a possible source for hearth/campfire cookery, but I'm looking for what kinds of ingredients I can get away with.

My asthma is telling me to go to bed early, so I'm going to take a leaf from Shirebound's lettuce and send a plot bunny your way.

Title: "Ancient Malice"
Summary: Shelob heals and sets out to find the one who hurt her, working her way by night to the Shire. Too bad that by the time she get's there Sam's ninety and has bad knees...