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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Oct 14 2014, 2:38am
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This tree (or group of trees) made me think of Telperion and Laurelin
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It was silver and gold and green all at the same time:
photo 1
photo 2
It caught my eye on the way home from church, and after I got home Uncle Baggins and I went back to look for it and take photos. He took the first photo out the car window, and I took the second one when he pulled over and I got out.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
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dernwyn
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Oct 14 2014, 10:10am
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I love the way they're blowing! Any idea what kind of tree those are?
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Oct 14 2014, 12:25pm
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I'm not sure, because we were looking from a distance,
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but my guess is silver maple. The wind was blowing from the north, showing the undersides of the leaves. When we drove northward looking for them, we couldn't find them, but when we turned around and went south, there they were, visible because we were on the side where the wind was blowing.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories
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BlackFox
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Oct 14 2014, 3:33pm
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Thank you for sharing these. 
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silneldor
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Oct 14 2014, 10:31pm
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I think they may be the grand sprouting out of a couple stumps or just seedlings that took off together. Although the trunks look young aspen-like. But it could be the sunlight.
That was a lovely catch.
" 'Fair lady Goldberry!' said Frodo at last, feeling his heart move with a joy that he did not understand. He stood as he had at times stood enchanted by fair elven-voices; but the spell that was now laid upon him was different: less keen and lofty was the delight, but deeper and nearer to mortal heart; marvellous and yet not strange."
Chapter VII: In the House of Tom Bombadil; FOTR's
Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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swordwhale
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Oct 22 2014, 2:30pm
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I couldn't decide whether it was the silver underside of the leaves or flowers until I read farther.
Myths and legends spring from such images as this.
"Judge me by my size, would you?" Max the Hobbit Husky.
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