What Hope Do We have?

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Title:What Hope Do We Have?
Fandom: Lord of the Rings (books)
Characters/Pairing: Frodo
Rating: G
Word count: 200 (double drabble)

Summary- When all hope is lost, there is always a sign to look towards.

Prompt: For the "Beacon" challenge

Disclaimer: They're not my characters but Tolkien's, but I wish they were (especially Frodo!) ;)

A/N- Wrote for a while but never posted in here. Hope this is one out of nine to hear the Fellowship's thoughts.

The wave of darkness in my heart and in my eyes seem to never want to pass. Our leader had fallen into the abyss.

How could we move on from losing Gandalf? What hope do we have now?

Breathlessly, I tried to keep up with the company as we ran down Dimrill Dale. To what hope do we have now of getting to Mordor?

I felt every step even more painful.

Then Gimli showed us the dark waters of Kheled-zaram; the water refreshed my sagging spirits.I hastened for another attempt to shoulder my burden of grief.

“It was not in vain that Gandalf perished. We will find another way to Mordor,” said Aragorn as he tended to my wounds.

“How can it be the same?” I said, tears misted my eyes as I finally yielded to his ministrations.

“I do not know completely, but we will make it to the next obstacle together,” replied Aragorn determinedly.

The elves overcame us and kept us safe from the orcs.

After some reluctance, they welcomed us to Cerin Amroth.  The trees showed an odd luminescence of gold not found anywhere in Middle-earth. Momentarily, I forgot my grief and felt renewed hope return.

Comments

[shirebound]

Bless Aragorn, and the healing land of Lorien.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was a good respite for them in the Quest and glad that Tolkien wrote that part in !

[fredbassett]

Poor Frodo! So hard to hold to hope with a burden like that and now the added grief for Gandalf. you depict his feelings really strongly.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

Thank yoU! i think it was quite a turning point to deal with the loss of Gandalf and Tolkien guided us through Dimrill dale and to Lothlorien well but never gave us glimpse of the characters and how they felt.