Brilliant gap filler! You really are exceedingly skilled in describing feelings and creating atmosphere. Aragorn's fears and feelings were so "contagious", I am just glad, that I know there will be a happy end. You had to end before Aragorn learns that too, hadn't you?
Okay, that sounded to unhappy, I like the point you endet the story, it was just perfect there and I love your last sentence. I'm not always sure what I should make of very amplified and fabulous wordingings in a story. However, you achieve it, that you have a middle-earth-fit style, which seems at some points (and always the right ones, like this last sentence) even poetric, but there are never too-excessive embellishments... What I mean is... I like your stile and your last sentence and the picture which it draws and that it is hopefull last sentence (for those who know).
I know there is a close bond between Aragorn and Frodo, but I think I have hardly red anything about it. Your story shows it wonderfully. And again you have catched Aragorn perfectly, I think. He just made a great victory and yet he is not resting (which he sould, as I know he is going to heal some people soon) or celebrating but worrying about Frodo and Sam.
And I like the title. (I think I got it this time, at least enough of its meaning, that I can really appreciate it. [Thanks for the explanation last time, it was really interesting.])
Excellent story!
Author's Response: Thanks for the wonderful review! Yes, I had to end on an angsty note because I'm evil like that. ;-) I'm glad you enjoyed this story all the same.
I'm glad you enjoyed the language in this story. Writing in Tolkien fandom is always a balancing act; simplify the language too much and it can sound too modern, embellish too much and it can end up sounding pretentious. I tend to fiddle with the wording a lot, so it's good to hear that the style for this story worked in the end.
Thank you for all your support!
-Brennan | 