He spent the day acquainting himself with every glinting angle and glowing curl then passed the evening gazing at his reflection by moonlight and sleeping with his fingers grazing the water.
You could say it sparked up like flint. A fire from a " fiber" , a flashing " glint of lint" . What started a threads unraveled into shreds, what started as a " yarn" was " wick quick to burn" .
It is the Second Age of JRR Tolkien's mythical land (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were set in the Third Age) and Frodo Baggins is but a glint in his distant ancestor's eye.
And then, at last, as he crept around yet another bend, he saw a solid wall ahead on which two entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great, glinting emeralds.