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crack_van2006-02-26 09:14 pm
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If the Valar by The Artful Dodger (G)
Fandom: LORD OF THE RINGS
Pairing: Gen - Pippin, Gandalf
Author on LJ:
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
Because the world is really big and a hobbit - no matter how brave he is - is very small.
This is one night at Minas Tirith - a lull in the fighting where fear comes into play. It shows a very real worry of the hobbits - thrust from a safe life and with more and more familiar things stripped away from them, until Pippin finds himself in a strange city where the most familiar thing to him is an awe-inspiring wizard who's come back from the dead. This does a good job at showing not only Pippin's concern, but also how he has - in the midst of everything - become important to Gandalf too.
It's sweet and sad and there's a battle in the morning, but Pippin - and the reader - feel more hopeful by the end.
He felt ashamed. He had spent this entire quest trying to live up to the Wizard's expectations, trying to prove that he was not a small child and that Gandalf's words to Elrond had been correct, claiming that Pippin was as capable of this quest as an Elfwarrior would have been. And now, he had gone and ruined it all, just because he was afraid.
Afraid. Yes, he was. Afraid of what would happen to Merry if he wasn't there to hold him at night. Afraid that Frodo and Sam would fail. Or that if they succeeded, it would be at the loss of their own lives. Afraid that he would be the only Hobbit left to go back to the Shire. Afraid there would be no Shire to go back to.
And afraid that Gandalf would not be proud of him.
This thought made the tears stop. He had already been enough of a burden to this man. He would not be one now.
If the Valar
Pairing: Gen - Pippin, Gandalf
Author on LJ:
Author Website:
Why this must be read:
Because the world is really big and a hobbit - no matter how brave he is - is very small.
This is one night at Minas Tirith - a lull in the fighting where fear comes into play. It shows a very real worry of the hobbits - thrust from a safe life and with more and more familiar things stripped away from them, until Pippin finds himself in a strange city where the most familiar thing to him is an awe-inspiring wizard who's come back from the dead. This does a good job at showing not only Pippin's concern, but also how he has - in the midst of everything - become important to Gandalf too.
It's sweet and sad and there's a battle in the morning, but Pippin - and the reader - feel more hopeful by the end.
He felt ashamed. He had spent this entire quest trying to live up to the Wizard's expectations, trying to prove that he was not a small child and that Gandalf's words to Elrond had been correct, claiming that Pippin was as capable of this quest as an Elfwarrior would have been. And now, he had gone and ruined it all, just because he was afraid.
Afraid. Yes, he was. Afraid of what would happen to Merry if he wasn't there to hold him at night. Afraid that Frodo and Sam would fail. Or that if they succeeded, it would be at the loss of their own lives. Afraid that he would be the only Hobbit left to go back to the Shire. Afraid there would be no Shire to go back to.
And afraid that Gandalf would not be proud of him.
This thought made the tears stop. He had already been enough of a burden to this man. He would not be one now.
If the Valar