LotR fic: Strangers Master Post
Title: Strangers
Word Count: 22,000 over three chapters
Summary: For better or worse, Aragorn left his mark on Harad.
Characters: Aragorn, Gandalf, Original Characters
Imran: A slaver who buys Aragorn, intending to sell him in Umbar as a galley slave.
The Innkeeper: An acquaintance of Imran’s who narrates the first chapter.
Khadeem: A Vice-General in Harad’s Grand Army who oversees a training camp.
Murtaza: The Commander-General of Harad’s Army, answerable to Sauron alone. Appears only in mention.
The Officer: A Man stationed at Khadeem’s encampment, but answerable only to Sauron and Murtaza. His purpose is to ensure the loyalty of the higher-ranking officers and to spy for Sauron. Narrates the second chapter.
Tariq: A Magistrate living in a city in central Harad. He employs Aragorn as a bondservant for a time.
Yakub: An outspoken revolutionary promoting Haradric independence from Mordor and all other nations. He is eventually promoted to the leadership council of a Haradric resistance movement.
The Spy: A young failed pickpocket who Aragorn rescues and recruits to the resistance movement. He is trained as a spy and placed within a nobleman’s household. Narrates the third chapter.
All names are Haradric, but are translated into Arabic by the same magic that translates Westron into English. All other similarities to actual people, places, or cultures is incidental.
Setting: Harad, Third Age 2980
Rating: T
Content/Warnings: Violence (most, but not all, is non-graphic), depiction of slavery, discussion and depiction of corporal punishment
Chapters:
Chapter One: The Tall Tark: Aragorn is bought by a slaver, who thoroughly regrets it.
Chapter Two: The Traitor’s Rewards: The Grand Army is almost as brutal to its own people as it is to its enemies. Aragorn seeks to undermine it from within.
Chapter Three: The Way Out: Hope is high as a resistance movement is born. But, tensions with his allies may soon destroy everything that Aragorn has built.
Part of the series, “A Stranger on the Sands.”
Word Count: 22,000 over three chapters
Summary: For better or worse, Aragorn left his mark on Harad.
Characters: Aragorn, Gandalf, Original Characters
Imran: A slaver who buys Aragorn, intending to sell him in Umbar as a galley slave.
The Innkeeper: An acquaintance of Imran’s who narrates the first chapter.
Khadeem: A Vice-General in Harad’s Grand Army who oversees a training camp.
Murtaza: The Commander-General of Harad’s Army, answerable to Sauron alone. Appears only in mention.
The Officer: A Man stationed at Khadeem’s encampment, but answerable only to Sauron and Murtaza. His purpose is to ensure the loyalty of the higher-ranking officers and to spy for Sauron. Narrates the second chapter.
Tariq: A Magistrate living in a city in central Harad. He employs Aragorn as a bondservant for a time.
Yakub: An outspoken revolutionary promoting Haradric independence from Mordor and all other nations. He is eventually promoted to the leadership council of a Haradric resistance movement.
The Spy: A young failed pickpocket who Aragorn rescues and recruits to the resistance movement. He is trained as a spy and placed within a nobleman’s household. Narrates the third chapter.
All names are Haradric, but are translated into Arabic by the same magic that translates Westron into English. All other similarities to actual people, places, or cultures is incidental.
Setting: Harad, Third Age 2980
Rating: T
Content/Warnings: Violence (most, but not all, is non-graphic), depiction of slavery, discussion and depiction of corporal punishment
Chapters:
Chapter One: The Tall Tark: Aragorn is bought by a slaver, who thoroughly regrets it.
Chapter Two: The Traitor’s Rewards: The Grand Army is almost as brutal to its own people as it is to its enemies. Aragorn seeks to undermine it from within.
Chapter Three: The Way Out: Hope is high as a resistance movement is born. But, tensions with his allies may soon destroy everything that Aragorn has built.
Part of the series, “A Stranger on the Sands.”