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rabidsamfan) wrote2004-07-08 12:23 am
rabidsamfan) wrote2004-07-08 12:23 am
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Two weeks of sleeping, if Gandalf were right, and you’d have thought that would be enough to prove that it was safe enough to sleep the night through. But the noisy Man feet of the guards outside the grove sounded worse in darkness; the jangle of mail and creak of leather too close for comfort, until Sam hitched himself up against the headboard and Frodo could see brown eyes glittering wakefully in the dim starlight, and feel a hand resting warm on his shoulder. He sighed, and smiled, and let sleep come.
At midnight, he awoke and they traded places.
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Two weeks of sleeping, if Gandalf were right, and you’d have thought that would be enough to prove that it was safe enough to sleep the night through. But the noisy Man feet of the guards outside the grove sounded worse in darkness; the jangle of mail and creak of leather too close for comfort, until Sam hitched himself up against the headboard and Frodo could see brown eyes glittering wakefully in the dim starlight, and feel a hand resting warm on his shoulder. He sighed, and smiled, and let sleep come.
At midnight, he awoke and they traded places.
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And I especially liked this line: At midnight, he awoke and they traded places because so often Sam stayed awake the entire time while they were still travelling (or at least, that's the impression I got, but it's been a while since I've reread...), so having Frodo actually awake and watching is part of what makes it real that the journey is over.
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Thanks!