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Thank you very much, Anerea!  <3

I'm not suggesting that everybody in Armenelos, even in the later Second Age, was unkind! But our second Numenorean was not one of the luckier ones. Fortunately, they are much happier in Pelargir! (The second Numenorean could well be "he", but I did not use any pronouns in the ficlet, I think.)

Indeed, there are many reasons for unkindness and I actually read their experience as coming from a complex source; I got the impression this was not very late in the Second Age, but still tensions may have been such in Armenelos at that stage as to affect the general nature of their families and companions, with the first growing up in an atmosphere of freedom of expression, and the second with insidious underlying fear in the capitol influencing the attitude of the second's family and associates, regardless of political affiliation. (Not sure why, but as I read an image of two middle aged men enjoying their morning appeared in my mind and I didn't even notice that no pronouns were used. My apologiesfor the assumption.)

As so often is the case with your drabbles, this is much bigger in the inside than it appears!

Ostensibly this is about bread, but it is about so much more than that too. How you've managed to include a little dissertation on home and belonging and how some will find that in the place of their birth, and others will find it in distant lands... that was well done. The man from Armenolos, finding generosity and kindness on a foreign shore is so beautifully bittersweet. ❤️