LotR Fic: Folco
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Folco
He’d read Frodo’s part of the Red Book before Frodo left.
But he’d never befriended the hobbit who followed Frodo there and back again when he, Frodo’s friend and relation, had done nothing.
So when Sam sent him a copy of the Red Book, he read Sam’s account of Frodo’s departure for the first time.
Now he stared at one phrase:
“…so that others may keep them.”
He heard two faunts-his grandchildren-giggling.
And a weight he’d carried for nearly seventy years was gone.
He had done something. He’d remained in the Shire to honor his promise to Pansy.