Pause in Moria

[rabidsamfan]

"I'm all right, I can walk. Put me down!" Aragorn doesn't mean to be rough, but he caught me up so quickly that I'm glad to be put down, to go carefully down these stairs without being jarred while he and Gandalf argue over our heads. But it is harder work than it should be. I'm gladder still of a chance to stop.

Sam is more careful; the arms he wraps around me are gentle, inviting me to lean into his sturdiness without haste or force. He's as frightened as a deer – his pulse is racing faster than mine – but he murmurs reassurances, hobbit-nonsense that contrasts oddly with Gandalf's mutterings from up there by the door. It isn't all right, and it won't be better with a cup of tea, and a bite to eat, Sam, unless you mean to find them somewhere beyond this wretched darkness. And yet I am comforted, like the fauntlings with skinned knees who sniffled belatedly on the garden steps while you came up to ask me permission to raid the teacakes. There's a whiff of flour and cinnamon from your clothes under the iron tang of blood. I close my eyes and remember home.

Comments

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

It isn't all right, and it won't be better with a cup of tea, and a bite to eat, Sam, unless you mean to find them somewhere beyond this wretched darkness.

This characterizes Sam and Frodo so well. Lovely. :)

[shirebound]

Beautiful. Frodo wouldn't have got far without his Sam.

[oliviaramirez]

Ditto.

[cpsings4him.livejournal.com]

Perfection! I love this!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*shakes head in wonder and awe*

[allisona.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's lovely. That small moment between Frodo and Sam in the book has always been among my favorites.

[dreamflower]

This is wonderful! How easily you find the points of contact in Frodo's and Sam's relationship, and how hobbity it all is. For all of the love and concern of the bigger folk, they are alien, *not* hobbits, and cannot completely understand.

[illyria-novia.livejournal.com]

*screams*

Oh this is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. The memories, the comfort, Sam's murmured hobbit-nonsense... I love this very much!!!! So glad your muses are dancing now! This one is gorgeous!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

*hugs the muses with joy and bows*

Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Wonderful. I love the way the little details of Sam build and build and build: you SHOW Frodo remembering home before he REALIZES that he's remembering home. Sam insinuates home into Frodo's mind without even trying; it's that natural, that unpremeditated, that much a part of who Sam is and what he means to Frodo. Love it.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

What I love about your comments is that you always manage to find the structure in a ficlet that I didn't even realize I was creating at the time, but leaps out at me in retrospect. It must be subconscious, because I kept rearranging sentences to get it that way, but until you pointed it out I didn't understand why!

[rosiegardener.livejournal.com]

There's a whiff of flour and cinnamon from your clothes under the iron tang of blood what a beautiful line ! So vivid ! * goes sniffing*

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oooh, really like this! First of all -- scene I used to read again and again (for h/c purposes, of course, lol). Secondly, I love how he can still remember home in the midst of it all.

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

I love this! Very well written (as usual) I am jealous of your short story-writing abiltiy!

[mariole.livejournal.com]

I love how your drabbles pack a punch. Lovely!

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful!

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

This is wonderfully evocative, Frodo leaning against Sam and finding a bit of home. Thank you.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Oh. I love this.