A/N: This tale has taken me a whole year to create, and it’s been a true labor of love. I have learned many fascinating details about the myths of the Celtic Otherworld and the faerie faith. Again, I wish to thank Dreamflower for beta reading, Pearl Took for reading and commenting and sharing thoughts and ideas regarding the Took faerie blood, and both of these ladies as well as Larner, for allowing me to use their OC’s for some of the search party scenes. Thank you to Minniemoggie for naming the river, Cenedril o’galad, and to the ladies from our Groups: Ink, Rhysylle, and Lilyhawker, who replied to my plea to help me come up with the name for the river! Additionally, my thanks to Marigold’s Tale Challenges, where the first chapter of this story appeared using an assigned prompt, “How far have we walked, do you think?” as well as Marigold and Llinos’s beta of the first chapter. Although I mistakenly used the prompt in the middle of the story rather than the beginning, it still fit perfectly into Pippin and Tulip’s adventure!
A special note regarding Pippin’s age. I have utilized Dreamflower’s “Hobbit Age Chart” and in my story Pippin is said to be ten years old. Therefore, the equivalent in “man years” makes him approximately six and a half years old.
And a huge thank you goes to the readers who have followed my story all the way through and left many generous and much appreciated comments along the way. Your support helped keep this story flowing, and I thank you again!
Glossary of Terms
Alfie: Feminine Form of Alfred, meaning “Elf Counsellor”
Celeb henneth n’ atpaluin: Silver Window on Another World
Cenedril: Mirror
Cenedril o’galad: Mirror of Glittering Reflection
Dair: Gaelic word for Oak
Daoine Sidhe: Keepers of the Otherworld
Dha Shealladh: The Celtic Second Sight
Duin: River
Sidhe or Sidh: Faerie Mounds or Hills, also the people of the Faerie Mounds. The Otherworld, the Invisible Race
Dha Shealladh: The Celtic Second Sight
Eolande: Celtic/Gaelic word meaning “Violet Flower”
Ealdhun: Norse word meaning “From the Elves’ valley”
Glas: Gaelic word meaning “Green”
Liannan Shi’th: Beloved One of the Faerie mounds, a Faerie who took a mortal lover
Mi na Bealtaine: Modern Celtic word for Beltane, the First Day of May
Namárië: Elven word meaning Farewell or Goodbye
Rhoswen: Gaelic, meaning “White Rose”
Si’og: the descendants of the Tuatha
Sirith Amarth: Flowing Fate
Si’th: Celtic word for Hills, Mounds
Tuatha: Common Folk, Crafters, Farmers, lovers of the land and of nature
Tuatha de Danann: Legendary race, the forerunners of the Celtic civilization who became the Daoine Sidhe, the Faeries or Fey Folk
Thrimidge: Hobbit word meaning the month of May
Borrowed OC’s
Dreamflower: Sparrow Tunnelly, Chico Chubb, Gil Chubb
Pearl Took: Tolley Took
Larner: Malco Chubb, Dremma Chubb
A/N: All other Oc’s created by the author.