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Zdenka ([personal profile] zdenka) wrote in [community profile] 100words2022-11-24 09:59 am

[#319 - feast] The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit - Feast of Fancy

Title: Feast of Fancy
Author: Zdenka
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Rating: T
Characters: Ori, other Dwarves
Challenge: #319 - feast
Notes/Warnings: approaching doom

Ori was not on guard duty, but he couldn’t sleep. He sat with his back to a wall, updating the book in his lap. The scratching of his quill seemed too loud in the stillness, and the lamp barely held the shadows at bay.

Ori looked up to find several of the others watching him.

“Tell us a tale, Ori,” Svava said suddenly. “Something cheerful. You know the best ones.”

Ori thought for a moment. Falling into a storyteller’s cadence, he began, “This is the tale of Bombur’s Feast.”

Doom, doom, went the drums below.

“When we came to Mirkwood . . .”


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