[ it's better to be safe than sorry with big folk, really, but her laugh and comment sets him at ease again. ] I think most children where I am from learn to fish at some point or another. I'm not so fair a hand at it as some, and it.. has been quite some time since I've had occasion to do so, but I think it likely that one never quite forgets the skill. [ had he the rod and line--and hook and bait--on him at the moment, he feels he might offer to teach her for the sheer novelty of the opportunity. as it is, he doesn't, and who knows when he'll see her again after they part ways.

the question makes his expression soften wistfully. ] I fear that you won't have heard of it. I happen to be from the Shire, though. Specifically Hobbiton. .. Even more specifically, from Bag End. [ a beat. ] And this is in Middle-Earth, mind you, not here at all, I'm afraid.