A Prince and his Governess - a glimpse into the classroom told in drabbles.

During the last two months of 2009 the challenges at tolkien_weekly followed the theme of trees.

I began the first one 'Apple' with the sentence 'A is for Apple' in my mind, and this implied a school room with a young pupil. From this first idea grew the whole series of drabbles about Eldarion and hid new governess - nine in all, one for each of the challenges.

You don't need to know much about Lord of the Rings to understand the drabbles - Eldarion's parents are the King and Queen of Gondor - Aragorn and Arwen. They are all, but one, meant to be gently amusing.

I am putting them under the cut without their individual titles, or what the tree prompt was - you can work it out for each one as you read...

( The first Lesson is... )

There have been requests for longer, or just more, stories about the pair of them - but there are a couple of WIPs to finish first!