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ataraxion2012-10-19 08:41 pm
ringbearer) wrote in ataraxion2012-10-19 08:41 pm
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- amy pond | au,
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- babydoll,
- brendan frye,
- brienne of tarth,
- cameron phillips,
- chell,
- firo prochainezo,
- francis barton,
- frodo baggins,
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◎third journey | video;
[ he's sitting in the oxygen gardens, a wooden pipe in his mouth and large white smoke-rings curling from the end of the pipe. there's an open book in his lap and there's a lingering weariness in his posture, despite how relaxed he seems.
still, when frodo speaks up, his voice is fond, light, moving his pipe away from his lips. ]
Where I come from, smoking pipeweed is considered an art. Making good smoke-rings like this--there's nothing quite like it.
[ frodo pauses; glances at his book then. ]
My dearest friend told me that he wondered if anything we've done would ever be put into 'great stories.'
"The stories that really mattered, that stayed with you." As a lad I spent most of my life reading about stories, learning them and I'd always had my favorites with my Uncle. He went on a many great adventures.
[ he smiles quietly ]
Sometimes stories can be..quite different than we imagine them to be when we begin them. The same could be said of adventures.
Do you have a story like that? One that's stayed with you. Perhaps something you knew as a child, or one you found in a book. Perhaps it isn't a story but a moment that you've shared and relived with others over and over again. I'd be glad to hear them.
still, when frodo speaks up, his voice is fond, light, moving his pipe away from his lips. ]
Where I come from, smoking pipeweed is considered an art. Making good smoke-rings like this--there's nothing quite like it.
[ frodo pauses; glances at his book then. ]
My dearest friend told me that he wondered if anything we've done would ever be put into 'great stories.'
"The stories that really mattered, that stayed with you." As a lad I spent most of my life reading about stories, learning them and I'd always had my favorites with my Uncle. He went on a many great adventures.
[ he smiles quietly ]
Sometimes stories can be..quite different than we imagine them to be when we begin them. The same could be said of adventures.
Do you have a story like that? One that's stayed with you. Perhaps something you knew as a child, or one you found in a book. Perhaps it isn't a story but a moment that you've shared and relived with others over and over again. I'd be glad to hear them.
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[He laughs. As neat as that would be, he can't imagine wizards actually existing.]
You're just kiddin' me, right?
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[ what does that mean ]
I can assure you I'm being entirely honest.
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[Just like people actually don't suddenly find themselves on spaceships.]
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[ gandalf the white, aragorn tells him, and for a minute he furrows his brows before he says: ]
No..he goes now by Gandalf the White.
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[The details make Firo less inclined to doubt Frodo's story, strange as it sounds.]
He does magic and everything? What's he like?
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[ there's a pause, a bit more somber: ]
Gandalf fought a terrible creature during our travels together. He used his staff to sever a bridge in half..if that is not proof enough of his power, then I know little of it.
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[Claire's the strongest person Firo's ever met, but he's not sure if even Claire could do that.]
I bet you're glad he's on your side and not anybody else's.
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[ if anything his expression doesn't change. ]
Wisest of counselors..that was what Gandalf was to me. A dear, dear friend.
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...Was..? Is he still alive?
[Even as the words are coming out of his mouth he knows he shouldn't be asking but, like usual, he can't stop himself in time.]
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[ his smile is a bit sad ]
Yet I don't believe I shall be seeing him again.
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[He blinks as he processes the rest of what Frodo's saying.]
What? How come?
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[ there's an unspoken tone in that. a chance of not returning from it at all. ]
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[Firo knows very few places that are actually safe, but he gets the feeling Frodo's talking about some pretty incredible danger. He can't help but pry.]
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[ he won't really describe mordor to someone. that's his way alone. but not truly. sam is there. sam will be there, he tells himself fiercely, though with guilt. he'd rather sam not suffer with him. ]
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[It almost sounds like descriptions of the underworld or the afterlife he's heard in fiction. Which would make for a very nice pun in Frodo's last sentence.]
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Perhaps not, but..we each have our own roads to follow.
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[It definitely doesn't sound like one somebody would choose. Firo feels bad for the poor guy, and he doesn't even know the true gravity of what Frodo's facing.]
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[ it's really all he can say. he carries the ring on the ship and he thinks this lad is a good one, but he cannot trouble anyone with this. ]
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[Then it seems like it would be pretty tough, whatever it is. Some sort of monster, maybe?]
Well... good luck. It certainly sounds like you're gonna have an adventure to go into the storybooks.
[Unless he gets horribly mauled or something, but Firo tries to keep his tone and thoughts light.]
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[ like someone like frodo could defeat a monster alfkwje.
that makes him pause slightly. ]
I wonder. Yet that isn't why I chose that path. I don't mind if I'm not.
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[He sounds like he's about to laugh, but not in a cruel way. After spending most of his life seeing the darker side of humanity, it's just a bit difficult for him to imagine anyone volunteering to go through hell completely altruistically. He'd only do something like that for his friends of his family.]
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For my home--my friends, family. If something isn't done, there won't be a home to go back to. It isn't that I'm particularly good or anything like that, no, I'm only an ordinary hobbit.
That is why as long as home is safe, I can continue on, as best I'm able even if my feet don't walk there again. I don't want all the good places in the world to be gone.
[ a pause ]
Or the people in them.
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[But to do it for the rest of the world? For people he doesn't even know? Firo has a hard time wrapping his head around that. When there's someone in front of him who needs help, sure, he'll do something; risking your life for people you've never seen or met is completely different. ]
...But you really don't sound that ordinary, you know.
[Whatever a hobbit is--Firo assumes it's another word for person--this guy must be a pretty special one.]
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he glances over at him slowly. for whatever journey he's undertaken, frodo seems worn considering the journey is still ongoing. ]
I'm not certain if I'm worthy of that sort of praise but..
[ the hobbit looks at him seriously ]
Someone must take it. As it stands..I don't think I would ask anyone to take this burden. I don't know why the task weighed upon me but --there you have it. The only way now is forward.
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Just 'cause somebody's gotta do it doesn't mean it has to be you. I... I'm pretty sure there're people out there who woulda' just turn tail and run.
[He scowls just thinking about it: the stool pigeons who'd dime out their comrades or the people who'd abandon their own families. Shaking his head to try and chase away those thoughts, he looks at Frodo half-smiling.]
Anyway... I really hope you can do it. And come back alive so you can see your friends again.
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