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sophinisba) wrote2007-03-04 08:32 pm
sophinisba) wrote2007-03-04 08:32 pm
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gen drabble set about the hobbits and Aragorn (1/5)
Here are three drabbles from what I'm intending to make a set of fifteen. The set will need a title at some point.
Two Letters
Frodo finds Gandalf's letter among his things at Rivendell. They've gone through his pack while he was sleeping, it seems, washed his spare traveling clothes and placed them in a chest of drawers along with some finer, smoother things of Elvish make, which he'll wear while he's here but doesn't intend to take with him when he leaves. And tucked in between them, an old letter, folded and unfolded and read too many times, which he'd taken along with him for sentimental reasons, and also this new one, which he's kept only because he'd forgotten to get rid of it.
This one he hasn't looked at since that night in Bree. And it's strange, taking it out again, silently rereading and remembering how he'd felt then – for how could there have been a time when he didn't believe that the lean, dark Man called Strider (whose true name was Aragorn) would be on their side? By the time they made it here Frodo had come to trust that Man with his life, and he felt as if he knew him quite well, though Gandalf and Bilbo and even Strider laugh and say he has a great deal still to learn.
He didn't hesitate to pass Gandalf's letter to Sam and Pippin, but he's always kept the other one to himself. Bilbo hugs Frodo and calls him dear lad, and doesn't say a thing about an envelope full of documents left on the mantel at Bag End, with only a short note to tell Frodo he'd decided to leave the old ring as well. When they leave Frodo tucks the old letter among the Elvish clothes in the drawer and puts it out of his mind. Bilbo may have left him once, but he's ready to believe that Aragorn never will.
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Two Letters
Frodo finds Gandalf's letter among his things at Rivendell. They've gone through his pack while he was sleeping, it seems, washed his spare traveling clothes and placed them in a chest of drawers along with some finer, smoother things of Elvish make, which he'll wear while he's here but doesn't intend to take with him when he leaves. And tucked in between them, an old letter, folded and unfolded and read too many times, which he'd taken along with him for sentimental reasons, and also this new one, which he's kept only because he'd forgotten to get rid of it.
This one he hasn't looked at since that night in Bree. And it's strange, taking it out again, silently rereading and remembering how he'd felt then – for how could there have been a time when he didn't believe that the lean, dark Man called Strider (whose true name was Aragorn) would be on their side? By the time they made it here Frodo had come to trust that Man with his life, and he felt as if he knew him quite well, though Gandalf and Bilbo and even Strider laugh and say he has a great deal still to learn.
He didn't hesitate to pass Gandalf's letter to Sam and Pippin, but he's always kept the other one to himself. Bilbo hugs Frodo and calls him dear lad, and doesn't say a thing about an envelope full of documents left on the mantel at Bag End, with only a short note to tell Frodo he'd decided to leave the old ring as well. When they leave Frodo tucks the old letter among the Elvish clothes in the drawer and puts it out of his mind. Bilbo may have left him once, but he's ready to believe that Aragorn never will.
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