something new

Posted on | January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

i put my name down for the LOTR swap MONTHS ago.
and promptly forgot all about it.
of course, the pressure has been ON since i remembered it…..i had to get it done and shipped out weeks before anyone else….because i am going away.

i racked my brains for hours.
i’d be driving along and i ‘d think….arwen’s soap? lavender? geranium? ylang? orange blossom?
elrond’s bar? some rosemary? vetiver? pine?
i like gandalf…..the balrog skeered me…..the hobbits bore me…..

then of course it hit me.
gollum.
he was always my very favourite, right from when i was a little girl.
my precioussssssss soap.

and so:

you are holding a bar of gollum’s own soap.

it contains dead sea mud and seaweed for a swampy, moist, cold, fishy, dark, dank, damp, desolate atmosphere…..a place where gollum feels comfortable.

it also contains walnut shell powder, for a lightly exfoliating experience.….something to stimulate and polish the gollumskin to a healthier pinkish colour.

it has been scented with patchouli and black pepper and vetiver, for their dim, earthy, musty memories, and a splash of lime to remind gollum that there is sunshine and citrus somewhere in the world.

a thin gold line runs through the bar, bright and shiny and tantalizing……even as the constant thought of the One Ring runs through gollum’s mind (o my precioussssss, my preciousssssss).

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i read the hobbit when I was six years old and I can still remember how I felt when I read the following lines.
they mark bilbo’s moment of compassion for gollum, even as he had to escape from him….and gollum has been a favourite of mine ever since.

“A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror … a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stones, cold fish, sneaking and whispering.”

this soap will be available after february 28th, when i get back to work.
it is a very limited edition and it looks wild.

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hi, i'm patti flynn

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