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"Radagast believes you are at war within yourself, against the Dark." He did not look at the orc, stared out instead over the rain-washed plateau, grey and deserted. "I have fought that battle, and it is ill to fight alone. I would have been destroyed by it, alone."
Canohando stepped behind him, gripping his shoulders with fingers like iron. "How if I threw you down from here, runt?" he said in Frodo's ear. "What would happen?"
Frodo looked straight ahead. "I would die."
"You would die," the orc agreed. "And I – I would grieve. So, you stand with me in the battle, Ninefingers? You had better hope I win it!"
Frodo reached up and took hold of the orc's hand, hard and rough, with claw-like nails that dug painfully into his skin.
"I know," he said.
-From: Following the Other Wizard: a journey into healing
Prequel:Another Way of Leaving
by jodancingtree
Canohando stepped behind him, gripping his shoulders with fingers like iron. "How if I threw you down from here, runt?" he said in Frodo's ear. "What would happen?"
Frodo looked straight ahead. "I would die."
"You would die," the orc agreed. "And I – I would grieve. So, you stand with me in the battle, Ninefingers? You had better hope I win it!"
Frodo reached up and took hold of the orc's hand, hard and rough, with claw-like nails that dug painfully into his skin.
"I know," he said.
-From: Following the Other Wizard: a journey into healing
Prequel:Another Way of Leaving
by jodancingtree
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The prequel's quick - but leave enough time for the 2nd one - it's at least novella-length. Took me all evening - another night with no homework worked on. But it was so @#$ing good I just couldn't feel that guilty about it. Superior, superior story-telling. I daresay Tolkien would have liked it. That's how good it was.