Title: Embodiment
Fandom: The Hobbit
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: This basically goes with the "Shoemaker's Children" set, but can certainly stand alone
Summary: Gandalf is a maiar embodied




It was not often that Gandalf (Olorin that was, Mithrandir, Tharkûn, Stormcrow and so many other names, old and new, brief and lasting, once-true, now-true, never-true, missing the mark completely) considered embodiment. He was presently incarnate, had been in this form and flesh for most of an Age of the World. There was nothing new or unknown or even surprising about the body he wore. And yet, watching the Dwarves cavort in Elrond’s fountain, utterly comfortable in their skin, he was aware of his own body, separate from his self yet not, a guise, a garment, a paradox of truth.