Three is Company

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"A fox passing through the wood on business of his own stopped several minutes and sniffed. 'Hobbits!' he thought. 'Well, what next? I have heard of strange doings in this land, but I have seldom heard of a hobbit sleeping out of doors under a tree."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


This picture really shows how much of a detail freak I am. *laugh* The biggest challenge to filling an entire piece of paper with graphite is to not smudge it! I always loved this scene of Tolkien's because it seemed so entirely random. It was as if he blearily looked over his manuscript over a cup of tea at 2 am and thought, 'Why don't I have some woodland creature that has nothing whatsoever to do with the story make an appearance?'