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Title: Too Much – Excesses challenge
Author: Kortirion
Word Count: 100
Characters/Work: Aragorn: Movieverse
Adult Content/Pairing: None
Disclaimer: He spoke, I wrote, but JRR owns the stories.

Author Notes: It’s nothing you don’t know already, so no new insights I’m afraid – just something that arrived about 3am this morning.



The long years of my life have been spent in watching. I have seen too much pain, too much regret and far too many good lives lost. It is my duty to lead - what can I tell them? How do you give hope to the hopeless? They face me, with fear, with grim determination, with the dull eyes of those already resigned to death. If the Shadow should prove too much…
No. I will not admit defeat. I will fight. They will fight. Hope I am, hope I will be.

Aragorn turned; a bright flame in the darkness.

“For Frodo!”

Comments

[shebit.livejournal.com]

I realise this whole deletion of the old comm and moving to the new one was simply to lose me, but I can track a band of drabblers as well as the next ranger. You breathed so loud I could hear you in the dark. Or something.

I actually found the new comm while trying to find out what had happened to the old one. I was going to the ljs of all you regulars to find a mention of lotr100 and instead found a mention of this place. So I followed the trail.

Even though Aragorn doesn't want to lead or rule, it's so ingrained into him that he just can't help being the perfect leader.

I was thinking about Aragorn's genealogy late one night recently and suddenly realised how impressive the roll call f his ancestors is. He's decended from the High King of the Teleri (Thingol), the High King of the Noldor (Finwe) - through other such luminaries as Turgon, who was impressive in his own right - several lords and kings of the Edain (Huor, Barahir et al) and of course a Maia (Melian). That's rther impressive ancestry for a mere 'Man', wouldn't you say.

Elrond shares that ancestry, of course, and by rights should be the High King of all the Noldor, Sindar and Nandor, being the last living male decendant of Elwe and Finwe.

Isn't genealogy fun?

[kortirion.livejournal.com]

*grin* Couldn't lose you this time then!

Re: genealogy: For someone who's busy, you have far too much time on your hands!

Though Elrond as High King sort of rates drabbling thoughts - mmmm, we'll see!

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was just a random though as I was falling asleep. What with reading Sil recently and currently reading UT, a lot of family ties have been brought to my attention. Galadriel, Celeborn and Elrond - and therefore also All of Elros' decendants right down to Aragorn - are all related by blood.

Galadriel an Celeborn are about second cousins once removed, so just far enough away that they could marry.

The non-Thingol branch of Elrond's family are decended from Galadriel's grand daddy, and Celeborn is Thingol great nephew, making him Elrond's distant cousin.

Thranduil doesn't appear to be any relation to any of them though, so Legsy isn't part of the big happy family.

Thranduil calls himself a king, whaen all he rules is a bunch of wood elves in Rhovanion. Elrond, who calls himself only a 'lord', could claim kingship over all the Eldar in Middle Earth.