Mechtild's

I love your observations of Frodo in this scene, so detailed, so attentive, the observations of someone who loves.

Thanks for stopping in, Verangel! (And, yes, it is a "haunting and pensive" poem, "pensive" reflecting Bilbo's processing of the situation, and "haunting", perhaps, reflecting the way young Frodo is always on Bilbo's mind. It's as if the moods of the poem come out of the moods of its subject.