LOTR Drabble: Dark Dreams
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martasficTitle: Dark Dreams
Summar: Theoden, while under Grima's influence, is dimly aware of happenings in the Golden Hall.
Word Count: 100
Rating: Teen (mature themes)
Timeline: Late Third Age (bookverse)
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Dark had been the king's dreams of late. The Westfold burned by day and night. Helmets bearing Isengard's White Hand were found among Rohan's slain enemies. And Théodred lay dead in the Isen's mud. But only a fool believed dreams carried truth to the waking hours, yes?
Surely Théodred's sword still drank orcs' blood. His son loved his honor too much to die now, when Rohan needed him most. Surely Théoden imagined the whisperings he half-heard, and that memory at least was night's fantasy?
So he gladly drank the tonic Gríma prepared for him nightly, and hoped to dream forevermore.
Summar: Theoden, while under Grima's influence, is dimly aware of happenings in the Golden Hall.
Word Count: 100
Rating: Teen (mature themes)
Timeline: Late Third Age (bookverse)
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Dark had been the king's dreams of late. The Westfold burned by day and night. Helmets bearing Isengard's White Hand were found among Rohan's slain enemies. And Théodred lay dead in the Isen's mud. But only a fool believed dreams carried truth to the waking hours, yes?
Surely Théodred's sword still drank orcs' blood. His son loved his honor too much to die now, when Rohan needed him most. Surely Théoden imagined the whisperings he half-heard, and that memory at least was night's fantasy?
So he gladly drank the tonic Gríma prepared for him nightly, and hoped to dream forevermore.