Role Reversal
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altarielThese Ithilien drabbles just don't stop coming.
Role Reversal
Emyn Arnen, early in the Fourth Age
Perhaps, given their heritage and the world they inhabited, the games were inevitable. Under the bright sunlight of the new age, they rode and quested and triumphed in safety. They scaled mountains together, broke bridges together, rode out to relieve a city together.
And, of course, there was the very best game of all.
“You look upon a woman!” Morwen cries out across the radiant garden. “Begone, foul dwimmerlaik!”
“Is that me?” Elboron asks, uncertainly. Sometimes the women of his family are a challenge.
“What?” his sister says. Sometimes her chief lieutenant is obtuse. “Don’t be stupid! You’re the hobbit!”
Role Reversal
Emyn Arnen, early in the Fourth Age
Perhaps, given their heritage and the world they inhabited, the games were inevitable. Under the bright sunlight of the new age, they rode and quested and triumphed in safety. They scaled mountains together, broke bridges together, rode out to relieve a city together.
And, of course, there was the very best game of all.
“You look upon a woman!” Morwen cries out across the radiant garden. “Begone, foul dwimmerlaik!”
“Is that me?” Elboron asks, uncertainly. Sometimes the women of his family are a challenge.
“What?” his sister says. Sometimes her chief lieutenant is obtuse. “Don’t be stupid! You’re the hobbit!”
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Date: 2011-05-18 10:40 am (UTC)Most of all, I loved:
Under the bright sunlight of the new age, they rode and quested and triumphed in safety.
It's such a happy thought that that was the outcome of all that danger and death.
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Date: 2011-05-18 06:20 pm (UTC)Very true to the inner life of this small adult!
It's such a happy thought that that was the outcome of all that danger and death.
:-) I'm glad you liked it, Az.
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Date: 2011-05-18 11:31 am (UTC)LOL (literally!) because of that very last line, which reminded me of, "Oh my god, I'm the tin dog."
Chief lieutenants these days are certainly not what they used to be.
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Date: 2011-05-18 11:58 am (UTC)It's true - whatever the benefits of the Fourth Age, there's a distinct lack of proper minions and lackeys.
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