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[rabidsamfan]

Near Cirith Ungol

A warm hand closed around the Ring, and in Its own, inanimate way it knew the long journey would continue. The old servant wasn’t dead, but no matter. It had discarded living servants before. It wasn’t capable of frustration, but even the long patience of metal and magic could not have borne coming so near to the edge of puissance only to turn away again.

The taste of the new one’s mind was familiar. The minion, then. A stronger back and a weaker will. And frightened too. It sent a whisper of desire to meet that fear.

Put me on!

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Oooo, shivery. Very nice.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. *wraps coat tighter*

[elycia.livejournal.com]

Yikes!!!!! This is extremely powerful and chill-provoking. "The taste of the new one's mind..."

::slaps Gandalf for not giving Frodo and Sam more guidance in handling the nasty thing::

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I don't think Gandalf had a clue, actually, about just how the Ring would change in power as it neared Orodruin. Scary little thing, innit?

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I love this. Great Ring POV, cold and calculating.

A stronger back and a weaker will.

The Ring would see Sam that way, wouldn't it? It's so dangerous, and so evil, and so completely wrong. You've really nailed its persective here.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've been mulling a story from the Ring's perspective for a while, but it's hard to get the right balance of, for lack of a better word, personality. I keep thinking about the movie line which says that Sauron poured his will to dominate into the Ring. I wonder how it perceives him? As master, or just particularly useful servant?

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

W...wow. Thank God that he was so blissfully wrong.

Brilliant.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*bows*

[unhobbityhobbit.livejournal.com]

I like how it thinks of Sam and Frodo's minion. It's not going to understand friendship at all is it? It also thinks of its keepers (I would say owners but they're not really) as servants, which is very interesting.

I like ring POV, nicely emotionless and entirely evil.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Well, it can't accomplish much without hands and feet to carry and move, can it? So servants they must be...