Fandom Special Snowflake meme, Day Seven

[dreamflower]

Day Seven

In your own space, create a fanwork. A drabble, a ficlet, a podfic, or an icon, art or meta or a rec list. A picspam. Something.

Here's a little drabble gapfiller, set in LotR, RotK, at some point before the chapter "Many Partings".

Persuasion

"All your news is grief to me, O Fangorn. Now I see I was mistaken in believing that Sauron could not be cast down. Yet I wished only to preserve what I could from the destruction I thought was surely to come." The Voice was sad and weary. "Now I must spend my days caged, ever cut off from the world I would have saved if I could." The Voice sighed.

The Ent blinked. " 'Saved' through destruction! But if we let you go, the keys will be left behind, as Gandalf said."

Saruman turned away from the window, smiling.

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, Sauraman beguiled the poor Ent.

[dreamflower]

Exactly. I think Treebeard realized he'd been tricked by the time that the others came to say good-bye.

[shirebound]

Ooooh, "the Voice"! *shivers*

[dreamflower]

Yes; Gandalf warned everyone he could still do that!

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered how this would transpire.

[dreamflower]

I figure he pretended to be repentant, and played on the Ent's dislike of seeing anything trapped or caged.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

LOL - sneaky, sneaky, sneaky. I loved it!

- Erulisse (one L)

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting subject! I've not seen that one before. Nice!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is just like sneaky old Saruman. Well done!

[the-winterwitch.livejournal.com]

Very interesting, and an excellent gapfiller. Well done!