On warm summer nights, the Canterbury Bell Fairy sets his flowers swaying. Ding-dong-ding, the bells ring out over the gardens and the countryside, calling the fairies to sing.
Fairy Meaning: Joy
Fairies and Music
Fairies enjoy human music. You can lure fairies into revealing themselves by sitting very, very still and softly singing the sweetest ballad you know. Although terribly shy, fairies are extremely curious and flock to learn new songs.
The Elderberry Fairy
Every autumn, the Elderberry Fairy implores the Fairy Queen to negotiate with the birds, for they are eating too many berries. The Queen listens patiently and works out a compromise.
Fairy Meaning: Participation
Secret Recipe for Elderberry Wine
4 ripe elderberries, 8 acorn cups of dew, plenty of fairy dust. Leave acorn cups out on the grass overnight to collect dew drops. Pour dew into a large vessel and add elderberries. Sprinkle a generous handful of fairy dust into the solution, then leave to ferment for a fortnight.
Heliotrope Fairy Lore
Heliotrope is the Greek word for 'head turned towards the sun'. This Flower Fairy is so named because its blossoms follow the sun throughout the day, making this famously sweet-scented flower the symbol of devotion and faithfulness.
Fairy Meaning: Devotion, Faithfulness
Graceful Eldar are portrayed in the short video below, with emphasis on the magnetic elements of their nature. Higher soul powers personified by Galadriel and Celeborn are outlined at the page dedicated to their realm, the other-worldly, mysterious Lothlorien. Visit Galadriel's Glade here.
The Eldar 01:15
From: Arneneithel
October 25, 1418 New Moon
Frodo is safe in Rivendell, and having regained consciousness yesterday with the aid of an elven remedy, the Council of Elrond is now called. Boromir finally reaches the House of Elrond, after more than a hundred days of travel from Minas Tirith.
The Council meets, debates, and decides the Fellowship should unite and destroy the Ring of Power by returning it to the inferno in which it was forged.
October 26, Silver Bow
Frodo reunites with Bilbo and all the Hobbits enjoy the hospitality of Lord Elrond. Gandalf and Elrond continue to consider the myriad possibilities they may encounter on the quest.
December 25 Silver Crescent
In the early morning hour Bilbo gives Frodo his trusty sword Sting and his mithril shirt that is strong as dragon scales. Once night has fallen, the Fellowship quietly leaves Rivendell and passes into the Wild, aiming for the land of Mordor. The sky is cool grey until the small band reaches Hollin, at the time of the Full Moon in January.
