Dreamflower's Mathom-house

Guess what? My muse is not content with my juggling four WIPs, it has decided to add a fifth one, and a very ambitious one at that, into the mix!

I am tackling a "biography" of Bilbo!

For one-hundred-and-eleven years, Bilbo Baggins dwelt in Bag End, in Hobbiton of the Shire, save for a brief journey into the Wide World. This is his story.

Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time, Book One, The First Fifty Years at Many Paths to Tread
Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time, Book One, The First Fifty Years at Stories of Arda

I hope that I will be able to keep up with all of it. I am several chapters ahead on "Ancestress" now, a couple of chapters ahead on "In the Court of the High King" and "Cado's Year", and I had three ready of this one before I started. "The Prisoner and the Hobbit" of course, will await the pleasure of pandemonium_213's Dark Muse.

Another update for "Ancestress"!

Chapter Forty-one, Adamanta's Children: Buttercup

I am so excited!

Remember a few months ago, I began collecting links to fanfics about The Hobbit?

Well, I now have a website: Off Into the Blue for Mad Adventures!

There are links to every fanfic for TH posted before the end of 2011 that I could find, from as many sources as I could collect! Please check it out and let me know what you think!

I haven't even read a lot of these stories myself, and am looking forward to browsing through them!

At long last, an update! In Chapter 7, Mistress Poppy and Viola continue their tour of the Houses of Healing and Clodio recalls just how he got sucked into Lotho's schemes...

Chapter 7 at Many Paths to Tread
Chapter 7 at Stories of Arda

I have mentioned from time to time that my favorite news personality-- actually my favorite celebrity-- is Robin Roberts of Good Morning America. She is a sweet, warm and genuine person, and my husband and I have followed her career since she was a junior sports reporter at WLOX in Biloxi, MS.

A few years ago, she successfully beat breast cancer. But today she made this announcement! *sigh*

I so hope that she does beat the odds this time around-- I'll be keeping her in my prayers!

Tonight the DH and I went in to Stillwater. We went to a free outdoor concert by the Stillwater Community Band:



It was great fun! We had time to go in the library and check out a few books before the concert. I took my knitting, and we enjoyed the music. They played medleys from "The Wizard of Oz" and from "The Music Man" as well as a number of other less well-known pieces. I will probably have "76 Trombones" stuck in my head for days.

They will be doing it every Thursday evening in June. I can't go next week-- we are having a meeting of our new writer's group. But definitely the week after, weather permitting!

Yay! pandemonium_213's Dark Muse finally wrote to Bilbo this week, and Bilbo has replied! In this chapter, someone new and unexpected shows up...

The new chapter, "An Unexpected Visitor" is now up at Many Paths to Tread and at Stories of Arda:

"An Unexpected Visitor" at Many Paths to Tread

"An Unexpected Visitor" at Stories of Arda

Adamanta continues the story of her children...

Chapter Forty-one, Adamanta's Children: Kali and Ban

The DH went out to do the yardwork today, and he found some s-n-a-k-e-s in the back yard!

I am SO phobic about them it's not funny. Will NOT be going out to work in my garden until the situation is resolved.

And while I know most are harmless, etc.etc. it makes no never mind to me.

At long last, I have posted a new chapter of "Ancestress" to troubledtribble! Adamanta continues telling of her children to Frodo, Bilbo, Celebrian and Galadriel...


Chapter Thirty-nine, Adamanta's Children: Addie

I hope that future updates will be more frequent and closer together!