Gandalf, Flying

[rabidsamfan]

How quickly can the eagles fly? Swifter than arrows, despite air that is heavy with soot-stained rain, and fumes belched forth from the belly of a dying mountain.

Sharp-eyed Gwaihir, can you see them? Small as prey, hidden by gloom? We are nearly there. Fly on, and pray we are not too late.

How quickly can a mountain fall? Too quickly, if it is torn from within. Through watering eyes I watch the ramparts crumble, swallowed inward to be met by flares of red-gold flame.

There! There! On an island in the ruin! A light for those that can see!

Comments

[shirebound]

Eeeee, how inspiring! What a fateful flight.

:D

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It must have been terrifying for Gandalf, if you think about it.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that last line.... Perfect!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, actually, I'm thinking about reworking it to come closer to Gandalf's thought in Rivendell, but it'll do!

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

This is why I love fanfiction! Gapfiller!! Thank you!!!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

[dreamflower]

Oh wow! You really capture his urgency, as he realizes the only way to save Frodo and Sam! This is just beautiful, especially the last line!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I shouldn't like to race lava myself, and to look for someone at the same time! Whoa!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Woooosh!

This just pulses magnificently with urgency.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I don't think anyone else would have even had a prayer of finding them, don't you?

[mariole.livejournal.com]

Aw... you got me again, ya big meanie. *wibble*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*checks stock price on Kleenex*

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

There! There! On an island in the ruin! A light for those that can see!

*gasps*

I remember that I wrote in one of my reviews for your drabbles that your last lines were "legendary". They still are. My God, is this good..

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you. I'm not quite certain it won't get revised to match the thought in Rivendell a bit more closely, but I want to walk around it for a while first.

[archerlass.livejournal.com]

I love how you captured Gandalf's perception of one the most desperate moments (for me) in the story.
There! There! On an island in the ruin! A light for those that can see!
:)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've always found that to be one of the worst of the nailbiters in the book myself.

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

Oh....

This is poetry, with life, and light, and rhythm, and flow.

Gorgeous.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Oooohh, just gorgeous. Loved this.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The writing muscle doesn't appear to have completely atrophied after all.