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rabidsamfanEighth
A hundred years to find a mare too stupid to dash herself to death in my presence, and ten foals from her belly. Centuries to breed the herd, mares put to stallions chosen for increasing strength and intelligence. I stood at every birth and coaxed each trembling newborn with soft hushings, filling their noses with a charnel breath before they’d known the living air. A thousand years to create nine companions for our road.
How many leagues did they carry us, only to die within sight of our task’s end? The River has taken what was left of my heart.
Timeline (fiction only, most recent version, includes AU) first previous next last
"Why do these black horses endure such riders?" Frodo asked Gandalf in Rivendell, and Gandalf said that the horses were born and bred to the service of the Dark Lord. And so I wondered...
Wildly underslept at the moment, which is why I'm behind on my flist and writing Nazgul drabbles. Anyone have any ideas I can use for 2 through 7? The Witch King has all kinds of handles, but the rest...
A hundred years to find a mare too stupid to dash herself to death in my presence, and ten foals from her belly. Centuries to breed the herd, mares put to stallions chosen for increasing strength and intelligence. I stood at every birth and coaxed each trembling newborn with soft hushings, filling their noses with a charnel breath before they’d known the living air. A thousand years to create nine companions for our road.
How many leagues did they carry us, only to die within sight of our task’s end? The River has taken what was left of my heart.
Timeline (fiction only, most recent version, includes AU) first previous next last
"Why do these black horses endure such riders?" Frodo asked Gandalf in Rivendell, and Gandalf said that the horses were born and bred to the service of the Dark Lord. And so I wondered...
Wildly underslept at the moment, which is why I'm behind on my flist and writing Nazgul drabbles. Anyone have any ideas I can use for 2 through 7? The Witch King has all kinds of handles, but the rest...
