tolkien100 | Nazgûl over Anduin

Title: Nazgûl over Anduin
Author:

mrkinch
Word Count: 100
Characters/Work: Boromir/Rings
Adult Content/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: Tolkien made this world. I made this drabble.
Notes: Written to work out what happens in the scene discussed below.* Still don't have a good answer, but a week later, it seems to be part of the Steward's Sons.

"I think..."

What does he think? What did he make of that chilling shadow more than any of the others, that he would almost speak of it? Gimli felt only its darkness not its breed, but Frodo knew more. How? How could a Hobbit recognize the overwhelming power that pressed us to the ground in Osgiliath? Fear that can freeze the strongest warrior should have no purchase among these folk. Can he know this evil and yet go on?

Aragorn says nothing that would frighten the others, nor would I have spoken first. But I must know what Frodo knows.

~*~

*When a Nazgûl passes over the company on Anduin, why would Boromir be "eager" for Frodo to say what he thinks the shadow was? If it was the same entity that he and Faramir encountered at Osgiliath, but far enough away that the company felt only chill and not overwhelming fear, what good would Frodo's realization and confirmation do Boromir's cause? Could he only have wanted someone to be aware as he is of the Nazgûl, or does he think it will scare off the Hobbit from going East? Would Boromir know that the Hobbits encountered Nazgûl on horseback in the Shire, and thus have reason to think Frodo at least would recognize one on this more dreadful steed? Or is he drawn to Frodo in all circumstances and here simply seizing one of few opportunities to talk to him?