Instant Happiness: Finding ‘hobbitiness’ every day of the year

“ I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." 

Byl walked the corridors and byways of Thorin's halls putting up posters
In beautiful copperplate script the poster read

Lost near Frerin's court 

Healer Broiner first flayed open a vein on Kandral's arm and collected the blood in a special cup cleaned and sterilized especially for the procedure. Then he carefully mixed in the three ingredients stirring continually so the mixture melded into a smooth liquid.

Bad luck truly really does come in threes. Or fours. Or fives. Or tens even. It comes a lot, to be honest. It seems like every time we manage to catch a breath and stand upright we get blown down to the ground again by something else. It's almost discouraging. I'm finding that I can bear it if I have my friends about me. I'm not sure how I would fare if I didn't. 

"So, this is our newest apprentice, my lord?"

Aegrod, respected jewelsmith of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, could not contain the proud smile when he looked upon his daughter, still yet to reach her majority - but a child in the eyes of her soon-to-be peers. "Yes," he replied to his friend, colleague, and lord, Celebrimbor. "This is my daughter, Calidis. I believe she is more than ready to begin her formal apprenticeship within Tham Mírdain."