by Stanley Anderson » June 12th, 2007, 9:11 pm
Or the coats might have been put there by Mrs. McCready to store the things out of the way in some little-used room. They did have moth balls on them after all -- does that sound like a precaution someone like the Professor would take? Sounds more like the housekeeper to me.
(I can imagine a little side event that she wanted to repress and later stuffed away into her subconscious. When she was first hanging the coats up in the Wardrobe so long ago, she expected them to bump against the back wall, but was taken aback when each coat sort of swung forward and backward more than it should have. She reached her hand back to touch the panel that should have been there to see what was going on, and felt nothing. She was going to explore further, but felt a fresh breeze hit her in the face from the back of the Wardrobe, and, somewhat unnerved, since the room was rather lonely and quiet, she hastily straightened up and shut the door and hurridly went about her other duties in another room.
It was vaguely disturbing to her and she tended to avoid that room from there on out, trying to forget about it, which explains why she paused reluctantly just long enough when showing visitors around the house one day that allowed the children enough time to scurry into the Wardrobe in hiding...)
--Stanley
…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.