Title: Kingly Valour
Author: Aerwen Telcontar
Rating: G
Summary: A really short fic about how Aragorn got his name. The original title was "King Tree", but I got a couple negative reviews, so I deleted it and this is the rewrite, which is probably not as good. Ah well, I did try.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters and (darnit!) I don't get paid for this. The scenario is the only thing I own.
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Arathorn looked down at his wife, Gilraen, who was exhausted from the stress of childbirth. He held their firstborn child, a boy, gently against his broad, muscular chest. Gilraen, catching her breath, asked her husband, "May I hold him?"
He nodded his approval and placed the child lovingly in her arms. During the transfer, the child began to cry. Gilraen held him closely and rocked him back and forth. "What shall we name him?" she asked only loud enough for Arathorn to hear.
Arathorn ran through his family tree all the way back to Isildur, searching for any suitable names. He glanced to Lord Elrond, who stood in the corner, watching Arathorn and Gilraen intently. "It has been prophesized that your child shall reclaim Gondor and Arnor. He shall give valour to the kings of old," said the elf.
Kingly valour… thought Arathorn.
He ran through the names of his ancestors once more, but stopped at his great great grandfather's great great great great grandfather, Aragorn I. "He shall be called Aragorn II, after my great great grandfather's great great great great grandfather," Arathorn announced.
Gilraen smiled, having quieted Aragorn. "It is a lovely name, my dear," she told Arathorn with love.
He looked down at his beautiful wife who held their child so tenderly. "I have never been so glad," he told Gilraen, bending to softly kiss her lips.
"Nor have I," she replied.
