Dreamflower's Mathom-house

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.

The February lotr_community Challenges are up. Our elements were gapfillers--and mine was to do the POV of one of the Ithilien Rangers when Frodo and Sam were captured by Faramir and his Men.

Encounter in Ithilien The story is in 3 parts with an Epilogue, and the link leads to Part I. Each part has a link at the bottom to the next one.