#hopevering

[murkyhazed]

@hopevering said: "I don't know why this has happened, or what awaits us now, but… Frodo, I will not abandon you."

               frodo   stares   at   the   jagged   mountainside,   expression   void   of   emotion   but   for   a   single   tear   that   slides   down   his   dirt   covered   cheek.      the   fresh   memory   replays   over   in   his   mind,   a   final   look   shared   between   longtime   friends   before   the   wizard   let   go   and   fell   into   flame.      frodo’s   heart   is   heavy   with   grief,   and   the   guilt   is   overwhelming.      gandalf   the   grey   had   sacrificed   his   life   to   ensure   the   fellowship   could   go   on,   and   the   ringbearer   does   not   know   how   to   handle   that   information.      the   voice   of   aragorn   cuts   through   the   haunting   replay,   and   slowly   his   gaze   lifts   from   rock   to   man.      they   have   barely   started   on   their   journey,   so   far   yet   is   their   destination.      they   must   keep   moving,   frodo   knows   it   in   his   heart.      but   still   he   does   not   understand   why.      why   did   gandalf   have   to   fall   so   that   they   may   live?

               ❝   is   this   what   awaits   us?   ❞      vulnerable   is   his   question,   fear   for   what   the   future   now   holds.      ❝   will   i   lose   everyone   else?      will   this   mission   claim   the   lives   of   us   all?   ❞      the   hobbit   swallows   hard,   wishing   for   the   courage   of   his   uncle   to   continue   on   this   perilous   journey.      ❝   am   i   leading   us   all   to   death?   ❞

[storiesofthenight]

@hopevering asked: "And today is the day we've waited for." ( aragorn to legolas?? ) [X]

“Waited for?” Legolas eyed Aragorn curiously, not quite pinpointing the reason why he was saying this. “And what may be the reason we have waited for this day?” Feeling puzzled, he wondered what was going on.

[storiesofthenight]

@hopevering asked: "You know that I'm not that strong." ( merry to aragorn! ) [X]

‘Strength is all relative, Merry. You see, sometimes the smallest have the strength that others do not.” Aragorn spoke softly, patting Merry’s back gently. “Worry not my friend, you will find your strength when the time comes.”

[respectablebaggins]

@hopevering wanted a horror starter from like May. Also comboing it with 'cannot destroy the ring' wishlist item... I know we said Merry but I had another idea...

It seemed such a small thing. Bilbo had never been one for jewelry. Buttons and the odd pocket watch were enough for him. But this ring... It must have been the magic of it. Of course, that was it. He was always curious about that. Of course he would want to keep it safe. What if it fell into the wrong hands?

He couldn't stomach the thought of loosing it again. He was thoroughly lost in the Mirkwood forest... He had gone down a path that seemed to be lighter than the others... before it was too light to be natural light. That was when he felt the road fall beneath him, tumbling down like a mouse down a rabbit hole. When he felt, somehow, the ring had fallen from his pocket...

Where was it?

Bilbo scrambled and searched, feeling panic grip his chest and tears well in his eyes the longer he was without his precious ring. He did not notice the shadows looming larger, the whispers of the forest around him, as he pushed tree branches and leaves out of the way.

He did not notice the spiders had retreated, or gone all together, or even the leaves being a different color than they had been before he had fallen further down the forest. He didn't notice the forest being older or the time of day had changed. He did not feel that this time was not his own.

He only felt the loss of the ring and began to cry in earnest.

[gravityslingshot]

@hopevering / hollum

YYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEEEHEEEHEEEEHHHHH!! He’s all alone…. He’s all! Alone! Hollum! Hollum! Our heads and necks thrust up. Hollum wants to move quickly, wants to jump for joy and off his hands and feets so hard from boulder to boulder that no one could keep up. The Mans is alone, the Mans has no one, not a soul to hear his frightened cries nor sound of his head smashed upon this slippery, stony marsh – yes… yes! His looks are not too dainty to try what dirty Man tastes like, and he makes for nights of food. Gollum’s knuckles whiten. His hand tightens around a loose rock.

Shut up! They release the stone. Gollum’s smile fades. We mustn’t get so hasty. Hastiness leads to carelessness. And careless orcs is what Gollum sees here. They fear a long, long way around the Marshes for its rocks are sharper and wilder than dark creatures. Many orcs fall here, and if they don’t, they go hungry, wandering the walls for days. We must be cautious. We must wait. With spindly limbs, Gollum scoops himself to hide around a large dry stone, his fingers lifting off to disappear behind it, leaving the red stains of fish behind. There he makes his way arounds him.

‘   Nice Mans has nice breaths.   ‘         Gollum creeps up behind him, peering out from a rock like a nasty crawling spider ---

His eyes brightens, smiling down at the nasty, stinky, Dirty.   ‘  Safe-country is far away, beyond so much land that day is far, and night is near, and those who cross are all but lost… What business does he have here?  ‘  

[gravityslingshot]

@hopevering starter / from eowyn

Dare she touch him? Dare she lay her roughened palms on his hands as if they had not just met and he come as close to see the chap left on her lips from late summer. No more does glory shine on their fallen, trodden flags. But something hopeful – no matter how paltry  - unfurls in her chest.

‘   Thank you.   ‘

A feather-light touch on his sleeve at the arm. Éowyn’s hand smooths over the stony bumps of his knuckles. Just this once, and then never again.

‘   I felt I’d lost him a long time ago. There came a gust of easterly wind, The room changed,

Blackened by flame, Blackened like the Withered Heath.

And then his eyes whitened like the blind. And a great age grew on him by the day.   ‘

[murkyhazed]

LIKED : lyric one liners / @hopevering

featuring: gimli and aragorn

song: gravity by maaya sakamoto

               ❝   i   feel   the   gravity   of   it   all.   ❞

[storiesofthenight]

@hopevering liked for a dialogue starter.

“Do you ever look at the stars and wonder how we deserve to walk beneath their light?”