Beorn's Wife by Himring

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Fanwork Information

Summary:

Beorn and his son Grimbeorn the Old are canonical, so Grimbeorn's mother must be, too.
But what was she like?

Canon Source: Hobbit, Lord of the Rings

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s)

Major Relationships:

Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet

Challenges:

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings

Chapters: 1 Word Count: 102
Posted on 8 June 2023 Updated on 8 June 2023

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‘Who ever heard of marrying a bear? It's unheard of!’ they said.

‘Hardly unheard of!’ she answered. ‘After all, Beorn, too, had a mother.’

And so, once again, she went to meet him at the Carrock early of an evening and, after a while, she followed him all the way across his bee-pastures to his wide wooden halls.

‘What's he like then, bare under his bear-skin?’ they asked, when she came visiting, bearing a pot of the best honey they had ever eaten as a guest gift.

But she, unfazed, tossed her braids and laughed.

‘Wouldn't you like to know!’


Chapter End Notes

Drabble originally written for the Homophone Challenge at Tolkien Weekly on Livejournal (100 words in MS Word)

Prompt: bear/bare

Posted to AO3 in 2014.


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