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Fifth

There are advantages to being a wraith, of course, which compensate for the inconveniences that are inevitable whenever He calls. Fortunately, most of my conclusions have been reached by observing the others, rather than personal experimentation. Some blades can harm us, and fire will burn, but when was that ever not true? We cannot walk through walls or people, although walking off of a cliff is not so much dangerous as distracting. Strictly speaking we are not discorporate, like ghosts, although we are invisible. Which is just as well, because how else could I turn the pages of my books?



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Date: 2004-10-07 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gentlehobbit.livejournal.com
I'm not sure if you intend it, but this drabble almost feels as if it has a rather sly humour to it. I can imagine that walking off a cliff must be distracting indeed!

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Date: 2004-10-07 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rubynye.livejournal.com
I never thought a Nazgul would make me *laugh*.

Or that I'd empathize with one.

Wow.

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Date: 2004-10-07 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serai1.livejournal.com
Ah. This one was a scholar-king, it seems, a sort of Anti-Magi. I can see him being tempted by the possibility of learning rather than power. What secrets could one gain through the ring offered him?

Very interesting, this.

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Date: 2004-10-07 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elasg.livejournal.com
Ah, a practical wraith!

You knew there had to be one technogeek (for the period) in the bunch... :p

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Date: 2004-10-07 04:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] danachan.livejournal.com
Oh, what a brilliant closing line. (I haven't been commenting on these have I? My bad, I know. Believe me, I have been loving them.)

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Date: 2004-10-07 04:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katakanadian.livejournal.com
Funny! I'm glad the wraiths aren't all doom and gloom.

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Date: 2004-10-07 05:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lame-pegasus.livejournal.com
Oh, help! A scholar and a bookworm and a Nazgûl! That's brilliant, and don't tell me you are running out of ideas!

Are you fine?

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Date: 2004-10-07 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] illyria-novia.livejournal.com
I want you to know that I've read and enjoyed each of the Nazgul drabbles you posted so far, even though I've thoughtlessly left no reviews. I love the way you paint a vivid and varied past life and present undeath (lol!) for them. I found the Nazgul with the horse to be the most poignant of them, and the one who accepted the Ring because of his fear of death to be the most tragic.

Oh, and I hope you don't mind my telling you here how much I enjoyed the Ithilien pieces. I shivered reading the end in the Gollum's drabble, and I loved the sad but hopeful tone in Faramir's. Thank you so much for spoiling us with these goodies! :)

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Date: 2004-10-07 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angharad001.livejournal.com
Aah! The bookish wraith . . . this one is rather amusing with the reflection on wraithness -still enjoying these very much :)

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Date: 2004-10-07 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] baylorsr.livejournal.com
OMG for some reason I am totally loving this. Very dry and without parody.

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Date: 2004-10-07 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pippinswolf.livejournal.com
I love it- a wraith with a wry sense of humor. I just had a picture of a wraith strolling off a cliff, and then not falling until he notices there's nothing under him, a la Looney Tunes.
You are marvelous.

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Date: 2004-10-07 06:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jane-somebody.livejournal.com
Scholar-Nazgul, whee! This series is marvellous - yet again you look behind the obvious to draw out stories that when you've told them, we *know* must be true!

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Date: 2004-10-08 01:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oliviaramirez
A wraith that reads; so there are elements of human left in the wraiths. Silly to think of me that they wouldn't be able to enjoy human pleasures anymore.

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