March 13 (Gen drabble, hobbits, PG)

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Author: rubynye
Title: March 13
Rating: PG, maybe
Characters: Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin, though not in that order. Others mentioned.
Work: Return of the King, both book and movie
Disclaimer: This is a brief benign avocational fiction.
Author's note: I wrote this for the tolkien_weekly challenge last week, but it didn't quite fit (it's not really about solitude so much as....)



Swiftly we ride, but terror is swifter; my lady's pale and silent, holding me in the saddle. Pippin, I'm coming, I won't leave you alone.

The Ring singing lies, the orcs cackling truth, that Stinker lurking in the darkness, but Mr. Frodo's needing aid, and none's here but me alone.

Captain Faramir burns, Lord Denethor grieves, Gandalf is gone to marshal the defences, and how I miss Merry as I watch here alone.

Dim light and harsh voices; I'm naked and captive. Sam is lost, we have lost, the Ring's returned to its Master; all is lost, and I despair alone.