waiting for the last round of meds for the night

[rabidsamfan]

And thought I'd challenge myself, having realized how few of my drabbles touch on the events of The Two Towers.


Resting at Isengard

Nine days by Pippin’s fingercount, since last I sat and stretched my legs like this and longer since I had the comfort of pipeweed to soothe me. Gimli’s head is not so sore, even Legolas is better for a good meal, but we three are better still for the chance to listen to the comfortable chatter of hobbits debating matters of importance as lightly as Shire genealogies. The tale goes from one to the other, whips and pain and orcs discarded as distractions, but I have learned to listen for what is not said when a hobbit tells a tale.




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Comments

[archerlass.livejournal.com]

..but I have learned to listen for what is not said when a hobbit tells a tale.
Very very true to what Tolkien says about hobbits. Wonderful!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I suspect that having one of the hobbits be Pippin makes it even more true!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

but I have learned to listen for what is not said when a hobbit tells a tale.
OoooH.

*applause*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*bow*

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Strider, man of mystery and of few words!
I do so love your drabbles and short stories, rabidsamfan!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

And I love your icon. Thank you!

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

I love all of Mucun's art! She is so gifted!

[ancalime8301]

but I have learned to listen for what is not said when a hobbit tells a tale.

Ooooh... so very true. Nice!! :)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[maripo5a.livejournal.com]

very nice, indeed. few words, well-chosen: Strider. :-)

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*snicker* There must have been times when he realized he was going to have to make a speech as king that he wished he could go back to being just a ranger.

Thanks!

[elycia.livejournal.com]

I have learned to listen for what is not said when a hobbit tells a tale.

Fabulous!

I'm impressed. I'm not even REMOTELY lucid on codiene, even twelve or so hours after taking the bloody stuff. :-)

Hope you feel better SOON!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not very much codeine, and when I wrote this I was half an hour short of taking the next dose, so...

Thanks!

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

I spare you to quote the sentence everyone here has already quoted. Your way to write Strider gets better and better. Thank you!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I think Aragorn is my second favorite character. Especially when I imagine Viggo Mortensen in the role. ;) But I've always liked him.

You're welcome!

[shirebound]

I think this is one of your best, RSF! I never liked, in TTT, how lightly Aragorn & Co. dismissed what happened to the hobbits when they were with the orcs ("It doesn't seem to have done you any harm."). This is a very thoughtful piece, and it makes me happy to think that Aragorn appreciated the hobbits and was wondering about their welfare.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Funny, I always took It doesn't seem to have done you any harm. as sheer curiosity. I mean, after all that running and chasing and fighting, when Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas probably all look like they've been through the mill, here they find Merry and Pippin all bright eyed and bushy-tailed and downright healthy... You notice that they got the story out of the hobbits before the hobbits got the story out of them, too.

But I'm still happy that you liked my drabble.

Thanks!

[pippinswolf.livejournal.com]

Even meds don't slow down your way with words. :-) feel better soon.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Some better, some better. It's such a relief not to be coughing quite so often that I feel almost human.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Now that? Is just perfect. Like shirebound says, it definitely makes me happy to think that Aragorn appreciated the hobbits and had been wondering about their welfare. And this also goes to show that I can wake up after a double-Nyquil night and forget how to spell my name, but you can write something so wonderful as this, and there's been codiene involved.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the codeine was 3andahalf hours behind me when I wrote this. And it's not a heavy dose of the stuff, either. Just enough to make a nap sound really nice.

Thanks!

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Lovely! I can't believe that you can write so well when on meds, but I'm glad you can. Thanks!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Short sentences. That's the secret. Short shentences... *zzzzzzzzzz

You're welcome!

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Along with everyone else, I have to say the last half-sentence particularly stood out. And it's true of you too, the way you get in between Tolkien's lines and tease out little ideas that we never thought of, but seem so *right* as soon as you show them to us.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you. I think some of my best drabbles have come up because I flipped open the book and read until a bunny bit. There's so much in Tolkien, if you go looking for it!

[dreamflower]

My absolute favorite chapter of The Two Towers, and Aragorn's voice *dead on*! You are amazing!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (And double thank you for going back and finding this among the clutter!)