A Shieldmaiden, Tempted

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Title: A Shieldmaiden, Tempted
Author: annmarwalk
Word Count: 100
Source: The Two Towers, but definitely AU
Adult Content: Implied
Disclaimer: Not mine, merely borrowed for 100 words.

The birthday request was to ”write your favorite character being tempted by the Ring, to show how the Ring works, not on a person's worst motives, but their best.”

A Shieldmaiden, Tempted

When the Company arrives, she quickly arranges meals and beds.

Later, she joins them, listens, and thinks.

This device - could it not be used to restore her uncle’s health and strength? Then, they could ride to Gondor’s aid. She too would ride – is she not a shieldmaiden? Could she not be a marshal? Could she not –

How to get it? She eyes the hobbit speculatively.

He flushes, looks away; then looks back, speculatively.

Catching his glance, she gasps; then begins to think: how to rearrange the beds…

Something rouses Sam from his dozing; he wakes abruptly, looking for danger.

Comments

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I apologize for how late this is; this month, I had to put a lot aside till later. This was one such thing I saved for later, and I'm glad I did. It's wonderful, and chilling.

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

Gosh, I had forgotten all about putting it out there! Thanks for the happy surprise, and your kind comment.
Lots of folks didn't like it - interspecies hanky panky!- and found Eowyn too OOC as a seductress of innocent Frodo. But I wrote Frodo as giving her the eye, which considerably altered her idea of how to get the ring. Something different for Eowyn, Frodo, and me!