[Angry Brandybuck]

The beauty of Crystal's moved Angry more than he had ever been moved before by something that wasn't the wind blowing gently over the green fields of the Shire, or a good pipe packed with Old Toby. Sure, this lady wasn't from around here, but she behaved just as if she'd been born and bred in the Shire, every inch a hobbit.

When she had finished singing she looked upset and melancholic, as she had when Angry first talked to her. He longed to be able to comfort her, put his arms around her and stop anything from harming here. He suspected, however, that this would not be the right thing to do in a public place such as this. At last he merely said "That was beautiful Crystal, thankyou for sharing it with me."

He noticed that in the corner Halfred Hamfast had come in with two of his daughters. He was especially pleased that he hadn't embraced Crystal now because Halfred was well known to be against all of the 'strangers' that now frequented the Dragon. If Hamfast saw him 'fooling around' with a human woman Angry's parents would be bound to find out. He also noticed, as several men about the town had been doing, how beautiful Asphodel had become lately.

You're a silly fool Angry. You can gaup at the girls all you want but you know they don't want you. Crystal may do though, and he was beginning to think that he wanted her aswell.