The Diary of Bellin Curlytoes

Back in Tinnudir finally

Finally back in Tinnudir it’s a very long trip from Bree even knowing the quickest horse routes.  I’ll have to look around to see if there’s anyone who can show me a shortcut that I can use in the future.  There’s all sorts of jobs that need to be done around here so hopefully I’ll soon have enough coin for my own pony.  On top of that I think I shall take a closer loot at these ruins that are all over the place here.  The rangers told me that many of the ruins are tombs of important long-legs who lived hundreds of years ago.

The trouble is that there’s all those long-leg bandits who are interested in the tombs because they think there’s treasure because the tombs belonged to kings.  From what I understand kings are a bit like Thains except they live in huge buildings and have lots of jewels.  After seeing those skellertons in the barrows and the ghosties in Fornost I would have said that it would be very sensible to not poke around in tombs.

A bit further along from Oatbarton is another hobbit village called Dwaling, I said we should stop off on our way through because they sell pipeweed and pretty glass trinkets which will make a very nice present for mam.  But as we got closer Krispli noticed that whoever was wandering around the streets was too tall for a hobbit.  We sneaked a bit closer and saw that there were bandits everywhere, but I couldn’t see any hobbits.

Glassblowers at Dwaling

We finally found the hobbits near the glassblowers hut they said that they would make me an ornament if I got some sand for them, I think they’re too afraid of the bandits to get it themselves.

Well the bandits weren’t the reason that they didn’t go to get the sand themselves, they didn’t even warn me about the fire-breathing monsters on the beach, luckily I was standing behind Krispli when they started with the fire-breathing.

Still at least the hobbits made me a pretty ornament for mam, it’s a bird and it’s got all these pretty colours in it when the sun shines on it.  I packed it away safely for the rest of the journey to Tinnudir.  Krispli kept muttering about his beard being singed but as I pointed out at least it had cleared out all the cobwebs from his beard.  Krispli sent me off to do some mining.