Teahesto

          The months had been long, the leagues longer, since Captain Teahesto last set foot in the valley of Torn-en-Aduial, let alone beheld the manor named Torech Besruth, the Lair as it was called.  As he rode down the switchback trail that led to the flat greensward by the riverside, he took in the sight of the grand and elegant Elvish manor – now marked by three black spires that soared high above the gables and the roof.&nbs

A Hobbit Inquisition, Part the 5th: Hydrangeas 

Being the observations of Applecider Bolingbroke, assisting Deputy-Shirriff Lancogard North-Took, in the Dastardly Case of the Dead Man’s Tale.

(As recorded in a cipher once learned from a wanderin’ Treasure-Seeker called ‘Theodore’)

“Did you love him?”

“I do love him.”

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