Varda smiled at the hobbit next to her, and answered his question.
“I first heard it when I was young. I loved it so much I learned it, and never forgot it,” she replied.
They made polite conversation for a little longer, but Varda was unwilling to divulge much about her past, and many details about how she had made her way to the Seventh Star, so far from the Elven regions.
She gasped slightly when she saw the small creature morph into a woman on the mantelpiece. A skinchanger in the Inn? This could be an interesting stay…
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'It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them' ~Frodo
"Life is hard. After all, it kills you." - Katharine Hepburn
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