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Museum-Quality Matte Paper Print available in two sizes:
12" x 16" (30cm x 40cm): $35.00
24" x 32" (60cm x 80cm): $48.00
 
“In the Party Field a beautiful young sapling leaped up: it had silver bark and long leaves and burst into golden flowers in April. It was indeed a mallorn, and it was the wonder of the neighborhood.” - The Return of the King, Book 6, Chapter 9: The Grey Havens
 
It is S.R. 1430, and Sam Gamgee has strolled out to the Party Field with one of the three books of lore to sit in the gentle shade of the only mallorn tree west of the Misty Mountains. Bag End is seen in the distance, and its gardens have never looked finer. Sam has greatly expanded them to include a rose garden for Rose, a young fruit orchard, and an excellent vegetable garden to feed his growing family.
 
Things to notice in your print:
 
Sam is having a happy and busy life, which Frodo foretold, yet, given all the little gardener had been through in the War of the Ring, I'm sure he sometimes took time to pause and reflect.
Sam is remembering his adventure as he looks up into the beautiful mallorn branches that are just beginning to turn gold at the tips at the cusp of autumn.
Sam is missing Frodo and remembering his other absent friends, and, perhaps thinking about the mystery of where his own future Road might lead.
The edge of the great stump of the Party Tree is visible - a memento of Bilbo's wonderful eleventy-first birthday party. Sam has been cultivating white and yellow wildflowers around the mallorn tree in memory of the Golden Wood and the gift of Galadriel; there are buttercups and daisies, and lovely white silene.
 
If you value the contemplative life, hanging a print of this original hand-done painting in your home can be a source of reflection about the higher things.