Thanks, Whitewave. I don't write much besides shorts, as I tend to like a lot of different characters from a lot of different races and so have too complex a world in my mind to untangle more than tiny pieces at a time.

I'm very glad you're enjoying.

No, you're absolutely right about the typewriter; I was wrong. Larner already brought it up over at H_A. I didn't realize how much he wrote by hand when I wrote it, and I guess it just seems so natural to me to write at a keyboard of some kind, I assumed too much. And as my historical!JRRT muse seems to be taking up residence with the horde, it's good to know such things for the future.

I'm glad to know it doesn't detract, though, and even gladder that you enjoyed this ficlet otherwise.