Iadarion was very happy to receive tea from the nice hobbit, and it mended the pain form his hang over a bit.
He was caught off guard though all of a sudden when the shy hobbit Posco spoke and asked of his race.
"Oh, ho! come now!" Iadarion seemed to act as himself again, as if the question intrigued him to the point of forgetting his pains. "Many a time has the question been asked of my father, and many a time has he laughed and turned away. He was, or is, or never was and never is! A riddle my father will remain, but myself I know from where I came! I am the son of the trees and the river, the daughter! They named me Iadarion- the son of the father!"
It was most definitely apparent at that point, if not so before, that Iar was a queer thing indeed.
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"'Eldest, that's what I am... Tom remembers the first raindrop and the first acorn... He knew the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside.'"
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