Piosenniel will have intact, real memories of this period. These memories will be passed on to her children, who have their own infant memories of this time. And these nebulous memories of theirs will be solidified and confirmed by the stories passed down to them by their mother.
Amaranthas will also have real memories of this time, though as she grows older Hobbits will say she confuses memories and says strange, out of time things.
Prim, Hob, Ruby and Buttercup’s memories of happenings will center mostly around what is most central to them at this part of their lives – the Elf’s arrival and stay at the Inn, the birth of her twins, the kidnappings, and the death.
That is how the writer for these characters sees the questions of memory for them.
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Eldest, that’s what I am . . . I knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.
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