Challenge: Lost Time

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Title: Distorted Visions

For the "Lost Time" challenge

Author: periantari
Word Count: 100
Characters/Work: Denethor
Adult Content/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Not mine but our dear Tolkien's, I'm borrowing them in the meantime and will return them unharmed. :)

Note: Inspired also from this passage from "Siege of Gondor" "But he himself went up alone into the secret room under the summit of the Tower; and many who looked up thither at that time saw a pale light that gleamed and flickered from the narrow windows for a while, and then flashed and went out. And when Denethor descended again he went to Faramir and sat beside him without speaking, but the face of the Lord was grey, more deathlike than his son's."

What he saw in the palantir was the vision of Gondor falling and his son dying. His lost time with his sons flew by in a second as the enemy seemed to have guessed what he regretted most- his time as Steward stole more time away from his sons.

Denethor's eyes blurred with unshed tears that this could be the end of his time and lands. How could he let this come to be?

In anger and anguish, he would not bear to let the enemy come and slay him; he would choose his own course of how to die.

Comments

[fredbassett]

So sad! This really brings home the despair he felt. Nicely done.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Denethor continues to fascinate me in this time of fandom life for me and more fics exploring how he may have felt is interesting to me.

[hhimring]

That lost time indeed must have been one of his regrets!

If the Enemy guessed and exploited that, that must have hurt him deeply.

[periantari.livejournal.com]

i believe so too. It is always interesting to think about how Denethor was affected by the palantir and in what ways warped his mind at the end.