Interests: travel, writing, whitewater rafting, coffee, tigers, mountains, sea
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A Taste for Adventure

Times of peace, such had been never known before, opened up amazing opportunities for adventurous young hobbits. Travel and journal-writingbecame popular pastimes, not only for lads, but audacious lasses as well.

Foremost among these daring maids was Miss Ruby, youngest daughter of Samwise the Stouthearted. Miss Ruby was the first hobbit ever to raft the whitewaters of the Bruinen. She learned to brew coffee over a charcoal fire from the dwarves of the Misty Mountains, and once spent a rainy afternoon on a hilltop overlooking the great Sea of Rhûn sketching a family of tigers she found frolicking there.