Peony was very curious about all the strange new flowers and plants they had passed in the Chetwood Forest, but no one had time to identify them to her (even if she hadn't been nearly breathless keeping up with the rest of the party!). When they camped for the night, she spied a beautiful vine, as colorful as the autumn leaves, climbing a tree, and pointed it out to Strider. "Don't touch it!" he warned her, and she snatched her hand back. "It is poisonous, and you would break out in a terrible rash of boils that would itch until you scratched yourself bloody."
"Mercy me!" said Peony. "I never saw that growing in the Shire. Only the Enemy would make such an evil plant so beautiful." And she busied herself smearing more ointment on her blistered foot.
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"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."
-The Return of the King
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