A perfect day? That would be a day filled with all the things that I love, the things that matter most to me ( Read more... )

Aragorn fingers the slim scar splitting his upper lip. He often does that when he's thinking about something that bothers him, but he only does it when he's alone ( Read more... )

I am my own best friend, it's always been like that, ever since I was a child. I have always been alone, apart from the others, different ( Read more... )

Aragorn touched the chain hidden under his tunic and remembered how the Evenstar had felt the first time he had held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it. It had seemed so impossibly exquisite, so light, so fragile... He had been afraid he might crush it when his fingers reluctantly closed over it ( Read more... )

He has been seeing him often. But most of all he has been hearing him, a casual voice in his hear commenting on things happening, telling him what he would have done differently and what would be best that Aragorn do - for Gondor ( Read more... )

I never thought I'd say this, but we're actually ahead. I've gone this way before and have been checking landmarks. By my calculations we're a full day ahead of where I thought - hoped - we would be by now. We've been making good time ( Read more... )

How long has it been since he's slept out of doors and seen the sunrise, woken in the grey darkness of pre-dawn knowing instinctively that if he stayed awake he would see a scene of unique beauty ( Read more... )

Was it night or day? Hard to say in the stark darkness of Moria. They had been trying to keep up a semblance of day-night cycle all the same, for the sake of their bodies, for the sake of their sanity... It was apparently night now, or so the wizard had declared ( Read more... )

He had never been one for revenge. Revenge was a selfish waste of precious time in a world and time where once you got rid of a servant of the Dark there was already another one ready to stalk you. No time to stop and get even, no time to avenge lost ones that were dear to you ( Read more... )

Aragorn always wondered how it can be that the ring fits him perfectly, like it did fit his father, and his grandfather before him, and a long long line of forefathers before them both ( Read more... )