LOTR Ficlet: The Summons
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martasficTitle: The Summons
Summary: Halbarad receives Galadriel's summons to bring the Grey Company to Rohan.
Word Count: 200 + Notes
Characters: Halbarad, Galadriel
Timeline: 3019 T.A. (1419 S.R.)
Rating: General
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Notes: Written forribby, who asked for Halbarad moments
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Halbarad blinked as his eyes adjusted to the sudden darkness of the glade. A moment ago it had seemed full of light! But no, that was only a dream.
Aragorn had spoken often of such dreams; they left him with memories so vivid he was sure they had been real: fell battles, a lover's caress, a simple conversation. And on some rare occasions, those dreams had brought warning for the future. Halbarad had never experienced such dreams, and yet...
He blinked again, but not from the dark. He had never met the golden-haired lady with the flowing white gown, yet something about her seemed familiar, like a fair-faced cousin he had not seen in long years. Her face was as unlined as a girl's, yet her eyes betrayed a wisdom tested by time. When she had spoken of Aragorn, how the ranger-king had need of his kindred*, Halbarad had trusted both her judgment and the truth of her words.
He would not journey south yet, would wait for more conventional word to affirm the suspicion of need borne by that prescient dream. But he would gather such riders as he could. When the summons came, Halbarad uin-Dúnedain would be ready.
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Notes:
The asterisk'd passage is paraphrased from the following quote:
The idea that Halbarad was forewarned in a dream about the summons is not canonical, but seems like a reasonable invention to me.
Summary: Halbarad receives Galadriel's summons to bring the Grey Company to Rohan.
Word Count: 200 + Notes
Characters: Halbarad, Galadriel
Timeline: 3019 T.A. (1419 S.R.)
Rating: General
Beta:
just_ann_nowNotes: Written for
ribby, who asked for Halbarad moments**************************************
Halbarad blinked as his eyes adjusted to the sudden darkness of the glade. A moment ago it had seemed full of light! But no, that was only a dream.
Aragorn had spoken often of such dreams; they left him with memories so vivid he was sure they had been real: fell battles, a lover's caress, a simple conversation. And on some rare occasions, those dreams had brought warning for the future. Halbarad had never experienced such dreams, and yet...
He blinked again, but not from the dark. He had never met the golden-haired lady with the flowing white gown, yet something about her seemed familiar, like a fair-faced cousin he had not seen in long years. Her face was as unlined as a girl's, yet her eyes betrayed a wisdom tested by time. When she had spoken of Aragorn, how the ranger-king had need of his kindred*, Halbarad had trusted both her judgment and the truth of her words.
He would not journey south yet, would wait for more conventional word to affirm the suspicion of need borne by that prescient dream. But he would gather such riders as he could. When the summons came, Halbarad uin-Dúnedain would be ready.
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Notes:
The asterisk'd passage is paraphrased from the following quote:
"[The Grey Riders] answered a summons, as you heard," said Gimli. "Word came to Rivendell, they say: Aragorn has need of his kindred. Let the Dúnedain ride to him in Rohan! But whence this message came they are now in doubt. Gandalf sent it, I would guess."
"Nay, Galadriel," said Legolas. "Did she not speak through Gandalf of the ride of the Grey Company from the North?" (from "The Passing of the Grey Company," The Return of the King)
The idea that Halbarad was forewarned in a dream about the summons is not canonical, but seems like a reasonable invention to me.