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alexcat ([personal profile] alexcat) wrote2014-08-17 07:45 pm

Day 17 - Kitchen Wisdom

Kitchen Wisdom
Author: alexcat
Type: Gen.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do own this original character but I do not own Middle Earth or Tolkien’s characters, nor do I profit from using them.
Warnings: None
Characters: Oropher, Thranduil, Legolas, Oropher’s wife, Thranduil’s wife, Legolas, Original female character, Bellothia
Archive: Ao3, OEAM, Alex’s Story Book
Author’s Note: Jenny wanted a story about Oropher and Cook, so I decided to give her a month’s worth of them.
Spoilers: For the stories of Oropher and Thranduil, yes.
Summary: Every day, I will tell a little of the story of Bellothia, cook for the house of Oropher.


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Part Seventeen

Legolas had been hanging around the kitchen a lot the last few days, looking all moony-eyed and sighing a lot. That could only mean one thing. He was in love.

The stone cutter’s daughter, Merien, was a cute little thing with her mop of dark hair and her huge blue eyes. Legolas had been following her around for weeks. He was bothering her so much that her father came to to Bell.

“He’s a sweet lad but he’s proposed marriage to her and her only ten years old. I think she’d like to stay single for a few more years.”

Bell smiled. “If she can be patient for a few weeks, I think her problems will be over.”

“Is Legolas going away?”

“Oh, no.. His father is giving him his first horse. He sent all the way to Rivendell for a pony from Lord Elrond’s horse master.”

Mirien’s father smiled. “Not even the prettiest little girl in the world can compete with a boy’s first horse.”

“You’re safe for a few more years then, until they hit puberty,” Bell said.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. No use in us borrowing trouble, is there?”

Bell agreed thoroughly.

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