Title - From One View to Another
Rating - PG
Summary - what do the Fellowship think of each other?
Notes These characters belong to New Line and Tolkien. So don't sue. Telcontar, the house that Aragorn founded, is Elvish for Strider. 1 May 3019 is the day Aragorn was crowned King. The Morannon refers to the area near the Black Gate of Mordor where the armies of Rohan and Gondor fought the Orcs in order to distract Sauron from Frodo's task.
Feedback - yes please! Be nice, this is my first fanfic. Email me at Scullym1ukyahoo.co.uk. Flames will be sent to my pet Balrog Fred.
Baileymag - great that I made you laugh! Glad to know you're Sam too, though I will not forget the time when a personality test said I was like Wormtongue.... I added the moment with Gandy hauling Sam in mainly since I love that moment in the film (" I haven't dropped no eaves!") and it seemed like a Gandy thing to comment on it.
AAAclub - here's another update! The grammar problems... well I'm blaming Microsoft Works for not picking them up! Plus, at the time when I was writing the chapter it was about 9/10 pm and I was also talking to my best friend on MSN.
eiluj - what other characters would you like to see? I'm thinking of doing a completely new story after this but I'm also thinking of doing a FOVTA sequel after that. The one character I defo wanna write is Faramir, but the others... well everyone should email me, or put a notice in their reviews to let me know who they want to see.
Rose - this story is also enjoyable to write. I write very simultaneously and the only thing I know beforehand is what character is the focus of the chapter! . This chapter is Aragorn's time to shine - so I hope you like it.
Blondie 03 - sorry, but Merry won't be writing yet! Yep, I am evil but hey, it keeps you hanging on til the day that I do write Merry! evil cackle
Chapter six as written by King Elessar of the Realms of Gondor and Arnor, founder of the house of Telcontar, son of Arathorn and heir of Elendil and Isildur
Written in the City of Minas Tirith, Capital of the Realm of Gondor on the first day of May, in the year 3019 of the Third Age
Today all my toils and struggles have finally borne fruit. I was finally crowned king, and though the kingship will be a burden, it is one I bear willingly.
I shall never forget the moment when Gandalf placed the crown of Numenor on my head. Gandalf also seems pleased to see that my - and his - long journey is finally at an end. I wonder what he will do now. I hope he will stay to be my advisor, yet I know that with the destruction of Sauron, he will leave soon. Gandalf is wise, and now is quick to laugh. His heart is lighter now than I have ever seen it, in the many years of our friendship.
Legolas and Gimli are discussing something with each other. I am glad to see that their enmity has dissolved into a bond of respect and friendship. I try to catch what they are saying, and I am sure that they are discussing their 'Orc count' from the Battles we have faced to get to the end of Sauron's dark reign. Gimli is laughing, a booming laugh indeed, at Legolas and is clearly thinking that he is the victor in this strange contest. Yet I am happy to see that they are light of spirit now.
The Hobbits are also quick to laugh, and I am very pleased to see them regaining their typical Halfling nature that seems so foreign and puzzling to many Gondorians. Pippin - or Peregrin Took, Guard of the Citadel - has recovered from his wounds received at the battle of the Morannon. I am still amazed to think that the smallest of our Fellowship were also the ones to do the most heroic feats.
Next to Pippin is Merry, master Meriadoc, Esquire of Rohan. He is listening to Pippin, who is telling Frodo and Sam something - no doubt about the Ents. He shakes his head furiously, evidently disagreeing with something his young cousin has said, then proceeds to tell the Ringbearers his version of events. Both Merry and Pippin have grown up - literally - and they seem more confident and will no doubt appear 'lordly' to their fellow Hobbits.
Sam is shaking his head in disbelief at the tale, yet his - and Frodo's - tale is the most unbelievable. I still regret my decision to leave the Ringbearer and his faithful servant to almost certain death at Parth Galen. I regretted it even more when that foul emissary of Sauron told us that their innocent souls were being tortured in the Barad-dur. Sam is another one who had changed for the better due to this Quest.
And what of the Ringbearer? Frodo has suffered more than any of us in his Quest. He has sacrificed everything, and I do feel some guilt that I have profited so much from his losses. Frodo glances over and catches my eye. He smiles and turns back into the conversation. I have never seen a being with such a sad and wistful smile. Not even my lady Arwen, whom I am waiting for, has such a smile. Frodo has not only lost his finger, but some essential parts of his Hobbit nature - his innocence has been shattered by his Burden.
I can only hope that he will recover and be able to enjoy the peace he brought to all Middle-Earth.
My path now is clear - for that that I am glad - and can only hope that my heirs can have enjoy such peace....