[Steppes] Sad news

[Jann Mays]

Thanks, Linet.  As if I hadn't bawled enough yesterday at Nuala's when it
happened!  But, your passage was beautiful and I really love what you wrote at
the end.
Gab
--- Susan Hill <sueorintx at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Then Frodo kissed Merry and Pippin, and last of all Sam and went aboard; and 
> the sails were drawn up and the wind blew, and slowly the ship slipped away 
> down the long grey firth; and the light of the glass of Galadriel that Frodo 
> bore glimmered and was lost. And the ship went out into the High Sea and 
> passed on into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a 
> sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the 
> water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of 
> Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled 
> back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a 
> swift sunrise.
> 
> -The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
> 
> Bon Voyage, Frodo. May you have the sweet fragrance of catnip always, and 
> the long ages pass away and perpetual kittenhood brighten your forever.
> 
> (((((((((Vinnie and Nuala))))))))
> 
> Linet
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Jann Mays <hlgabrielle at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: "Barony of Steppes - SCA, Inc." <steppes at ansteorra.org>
> To: Steppes List <steppes at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Steppes] Sad news
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:17:13 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Everyone,
> 
> Please give Vincenzo and Nuala your support in these sad times.  Their 
> beloved
> cat, Frodo, left yesterday to join Gandalf in the Grey Havens.  Frodo had 
> been
> a member of their family since 1990.
> 
> Gabrielle
> 
> =====
> 
> HL Gabrielle Honorée de Saint Pierre
> 
> "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our 
> abilities." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. 
> J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998.
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HL Gabrielle Honorée de Saint Pierre

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. J.K. Rowling, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998.




		
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