HOUSE DESCRIPTION

[THE EYE OF SAURON]

Near the river Entwash is a crossing called Entwade and a small town is located a few miles away. It has a small inn, a general store, a few farms and of course a stable master. One of these farms is the Folcwine farm. It is a small farm located a bit away from the town. It has a lot of land for its livestock during the winter where the cattle and the sheep in close to the farm, however during the summer they come out to the great steppes to grass there like the rest of the stock from the other farms. Every sheep and cow is burn marked so the farmers can be able to tell the difference between his own cattle and the neighbour’s if they get mixed up.

The small farm is split up in three parts. The biggest house is where the residents live. It has a bog fireplace where the meal is usually prepared and the “kitchen” and the living room is in one. It usually smells of wool and sheep inside the house because that is after all what the farmers trade with. There are two other rooms in the house – a room where the boys are sleeping and a bedroom for the parents. The rooms are often very cold since they do not get easily warmed up during the winter, so there are many blankets on the beds and the residents sleep on soft skins from their sheep. Right now one bed is empty since the oldest brother – age 22 – has joined the Rohirrim Riders and is now living with the bigger town where he gets trained in warfare on the back of his stallion which his father has bought for him.

Fengel is the youngest son of the Folcwine family and he is not interested in joining the riders at all. He works for his parents as a shepherd and he has therefore the job to control their sheep. They have one dog which usually follows Fengel on his work to help him out – his father takes care of the rest of the cattle by using their only horse as a helper. His mother takes care of the hens and of course the female work at a farm. She is the one that makes sure that the house often smells of newly baked bread in the morning, fresh apples and mushrooms that are drying for the winter in the autumn and wild flowers during summer and springtime. She is the master of the household.

The two other “houses” are located behind the main farm. One is used as a storage room for hay, farming tools and a small stable for the horse and some of the cattle. The other house is the smallest one and is for the chickens. You can always hear the rooster crowing at the break of dawn and he is usually the alarm clock for the farmers. The small lake that is formed from a stream that has its beginning in the Entwash river is used for laundry washing and of course during summertime – to wash their own bodies. In winter the heat up the water over the fire and use tubs to take baths in. Their drinking water is gathered from a small well even though the water in the lake is clean enough to drink.