works in progress meme

via whumpdotcom, who got it from somewhere else

Post one sentence from your current creative writing project.

Well, on my desk I have my paper from the Marquette Tolkien conference, waiting to be cleaned up for publication. The subject is Tolkien's revisions of his published work, and here I'm discussing The Hobbit:

He could have written Bilbo meeting the ten-year-old Estel (later known as Aragorn) in Rivendell, as so many fanwriters have chomped to do -- contrary to some of their dreams, Arwen wasn't there. But Tolkien was not a fanboy of his own work, and wisely refrained.