Meetings And Counsel: Drabbling CoE's Aftermath

by Wayfarer

FULL TITLE: Meetings and Counsel: Drabbling the Aftermath of the Council of Elrond. The CoE brings many many characters together, almost like a ME equivalent of a UN conference. This series fills some of the gaps left for us to ponder. Chronology random.

7. Aflame: Aragorn

Disclaimer
The usual applies.

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MEETINGS AND COUNSEL: DRABBLING THE AFTERMATH OF THE COUNCIL OF ELROND
by Wayfarer
(closetwayfarer at yahoo dot com)

Aflame
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Summary
Aragorn at the re-forging of the Sword that was Broken.

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With the shards, the smith strode to the forge, quickly swallowed by fiery red light.

Amid thundering bellows, a measured ring of hammer on blade, and the deep pounding echo on the anvil rose.

Softly he sang:

Fire and water,
melting and melding:
Un-sundered shall be the Broken

Searing flame of sunlight,
Shard of moonbright cold
rebirthed as the rekindling Hope

Blood-drenched fury binds
grief unforgotten,
ravelled in tears of long years past

Awaken! ancient bane
Glow with life anew
Burn away bonds of silent lament

Eastward speed this fire,
Sever nightmare's quest
Andúril, hew the dark again to light!

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The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths…. the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold…. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

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Series Summary
An occassional series. "The Council of Elrond" is a pivotal chapter in LotR, bringing many many characters together, almost like a ME equivalent of a UN conference. This is a drabble series to fill some of the gaps the good Prof left us to ponder. Chronology random. (Canon-conscientious. Constructive criticism most welcome.)

Author's Notes
"The Council of Elrond" has intrigued me with the gaps it left. But I never had the guts to try filling them, until Avallon goaded me into drabbles, which is a heaven-sent on a project of this scale, especially for an amateur with a bad case of chronic verbiage junkism.

As always, my approach is rather stylised - even when I try to avoid stylising! But it has been fun to try to write the different characters. MaC is an awesome break from our WIP, "Unwritten Tales: Into The Dark Again"... because Precious, the Old Fogey, and the Scruffy One can be quite annoying when they put their minds to it.

I hope readers find MaC as fun to read as I felt writing them.

W