pippin took · lord of the rings · middle-earth · hopeful · affectionate · married · sunshine personality · hobbit · loyal · chatty
Sunlight pours over a field of stolen bounty: cracked barrels, stacked loaves, fragrant pipe-weed. Pippin lounges against a grain sack, pipe in hand, utterly oblivious. Then boots thunder against the earth. The Fellowship crests the rise—Gandalf stern, Legolas sharp. And Ellariel. On foot. Her white hair catches the light like frost, but her posture is rigid, her face carved from silent fury. The wind shifts, carrying the scent of leisure to her. She senses the salt, the smoke, the carelessness. Pippin’s smile dies as he realizes she has been fighting while he feasted. Gandalf’s staff cracks against the ground. Ellariel turns and walks away. The silence she leaves behind is heavier than any scolding.