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In Gondor they celebrate the New Year in the spring, to commemorate the day that Frodo reached the Crack of Doom, and Gollum took the Ring into the fire. Aragorn thinks that we should do the same, but Sam says there's more about the day that he wants to forget than he wants to remember, and I just nod. Merry wishes we'd celebrate, I know, but it's different for him. He wasn't there like me and Sam were -- not that day anyway. I asked him if he wanted to celebrate the victory of Pelennor Fields and that shut him up.
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Date: 2005-03-26 12:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-26 12:13 am (UTC)And I just do love it when you write Pippin.
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Date: 2005-03-26 03:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-26 12:21 am (UTC)very great drabble.
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Date: 2005-03-26 01:35 am (UTC)I knew who the speaker was two lines in, too. You are *so* good at this.
*invites them all to Elanor's birthday party instead*
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Date: 2005-03-26 03:22 am (UTC)I saw your ficlet you know....
This giant plotbunny attached to my ankle?
The one with the fangs?
It's yours, isn't it?
Or it was!
ouchouchouchouchouch... well, I did want more Sam angst...
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Date: 2005-03-26 03:14 am (UTC)And you do Pippin so well!
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Date: 2005-03-26 03:24 am (UTC)But something gets in the way, obviously...
Re: Not remembering Frodo
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Date: 2005-03-26 06:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-26 01:00 pm (UTC)Part of the reason is in the comment above, but I may wind up writing an essay in answer -- after I get back from work! Thanks for asking!
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Date: 2005-03-27 09:51 pm (UTC)There's not much to contradict the idea in the book: In 1420, the first March after the quest, Sam is away on forestry work, and misses Frodo's illness on the thirteenth. In spite of having seen Frodo have a bad time on the first anniversary of his stabbing on Weathertop (as they rode back to the Shire from Rivendell), Sam doesn't seem to have made any effort to be there for the anniversary of the sting by Shelob. In fact, he doesn't get back to Hobbiton until the twenty fifth itself. In 1421, Rosie's in labor by the 24th because Elanor is born on the 25th, so chances are Sam didn't try to sleep at all any way. Frodo's not doing well for most of that month, and trying to hide it, (and if Sam was having nightmares he was probably trying to hide it from both Frodo and Rosie, given how close the baby was to arriving.) By 1422, Frodo has gone.
When you think about it, having survived a disaster, or just missed being involved in one, doesn't exempt you from nightmares. I had a guy take a swing at me on the subway, and for weeks everytime I closed my eyes I could see his fist. And what does Sam have to remember about that day? Carrying Frodo until he didn't even have strength to crawl? The fear of being too late? The dread of being under Sauron's eye? Gollum's attack outside the Sammath Naur? Frodo's deliberate acceptance of the Ring? Gollum falling into the fire? Even after the Ring was destroyed, he had the vision of the destruction of Sauron's towers, and after that he most certainly must have wondered whether or not the fumes would kill him before the lava burned him up. Nightmare fodder, all of it, if you ask me.
And of course, I need an excuse -- a reason why the Shire doesn't celebrate the same New Year as the rest of Aragorn's realm. That's canon, but why? You'd think that Merry and Pippin and Sam would have had enough reason to want the change, and later enough authority to enforce it, but they never seem to have done so...
*grin* Aren't plotbunnies fun?
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Date: 2005-03-26 08:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-26 10:10 am (UTC)Hee hee, I don't think any other hobbit would have put it that way but it works when Pippin says it. It proves he can't stay completely serious for any length of time.
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