O65 - Crooked Games
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b2memB2MeM Challenge: Alternate Viewpoints: "The Clouds Burst"
Format: Drabble
Genre: Conspiracy theory
Rating: Gen
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Gimli
Pairings: N/A
Summary: He left us then, our hearth flickering with the image of dragon-fire in Eriador.
Crooked Games
“You are playing some crooked game of your own, Master Gandalf.”
Thorin Oakenshield, “The Quest of Erebor”, UT
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He left us then, our hearth flickering with the image of dragon-fire in Eriador. “Old Gandalf’s not so close as he once was,” Pippin said.
“Aye,” said Gimli, “but does not say everything.” His brows gathered like storm clouds.
“What do you mean?” I said. “I for one have never heard the tale told so plain!”
“He knew those orcs were coming from the North. Yet he gave no warning.”
“But he guessed that an old man’s words would go unheeded,” Merry said. “Old feuds and old gold cloud the mind.”
“And Thorin died,” said Gimli. “A costly game indeed.”
Format: Drabble
Genre: Conspiracy theory
Rating: Gen
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Frodo, Merry, Pippin, Gimli
Pairings: N/A
Summary: He left us then, our hearth flickering with the image of dragon-fire in Eriador.
Crooked Games
“You are playing some crooked game of your own, Master Gandalf.”
Thorin Oakenshield, “The Quest of Erebor”, UT
*
He left us then, our hearth flickering with the image of dragon-fire in Eriador. “Old Gandalf’s not so close as he once was,” Pippin said.
“Aye,” said Gimli, “but does not say everything.” His brows gathered like storm clouds.
“What do you mean?” I said. “I for one have never heard the tale told so plain!”
“He knew those orcs were coming from the North. Yet he gave no warning.”
“But he guessed that an old man’s words would go unheeded,” Merry said. “Old feuds and old gold cloud the mind.”
“And Thorin died,” said Gimli. “A costly game indeed.”
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Date: 2012-03-09 07:41 pm (UTC)And by not warning about the Orcs approaching, I suppose you could argue that Gandalf forced the Free Peoples to unite for the Battle of Five Armies...
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Date: 2012-03-10 11:57 am (UTC)Yes, I think Gandalf was bargaining on the sudden arrival of the orcs and wargs bringing the other armies together.