ext_2200 ([identity profile] lakester.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-02-08 07:40 pm

Birthday Present by Bec (PG)

Fandom: LORD OF THE RINGS
Pairing: Smeagol/Deagol
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sangredulce
Author Website: ashes, ashes
Why this must be read:

Because this is both creepy and sweet. This is Smeagol and Deagol in the time before and after the discovery of the ring. The peacefulness of the moments before the discovery make the twisting of the relationship by the ring both unnerving and tinged with sadness throughout.

This is one that will stick in your mind for a while.

Déagol liked to hear stories, but never tragedies, never too much danger. The best were comedies, and they always ended with a wedding or a dance or a feast, preferably all three. He liked fish skeletons, stripped of shiny scales and tasty flesh, and he would study their clean lines and cleverly hinged joints until they fell apart and were nibbled upon by the tiny crawling creatures of the moist ground. He liked the length of Sméagol's twig-thin fingers, and his relentless curiosity and interest: in the rocks (sometimes jewels) and roots (sometimes edible) of the earth, in the depths (surely full of treasure) of the still ponds, in Déagol. He liked being able to pick out the red-speckled beak of a songbird in the shadows of a tree's hollow from fifty paces away.

Birthday Present

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