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Terrain challenge - rugged - 'Bath-house Tales' : Kortirion

Feb 10, 2008 01:50

Title: Bath-house Tales: Anticipation
Author: Kortirion
Character: Aragorn, the Ranger
Rating: G
Source: Pre-Ring War
Disclaimer: Tolkien’s Grand Design... Kortirion’s doodle.

( Anticipation )

author: kortirion, character: aragorn, challenge: terrain: rugged

Comments 8

ribby February 10 2008, 03:38:29 UTC

*snicker* Filthy Ranger takes a bath, yay! And oooh, what a bath... and thank you for Halbarad. He's one of my favorites, and he gets so little used. *cough* Except here, of course.

But the last one... oh, now I've got a catch in my throat. Argh. *sniff*

Lovely, all three!

~Kris

kortirion February 11 2008, 00:26:23 UTC

Thanks Kris! :)

I just thought there might be a reason for him being the 'filthy ranger' and hating cold-water baths sort of did it. *G* From there of course... things just escalated.

PS: Viggo at the BAFTA's this evening - the man is a natural dandy... slightly off-the-wall, but a dandy. Bless! Very smart, well-scrubbed with neatly trimmed beard, white shirt, green tie... matching the fern leaf in the top pocket of his black suit!

elwenlj February 10 2008, 13:26:48 UTC

Gah! Those last two lines grabbed a hold of my heart and tried to drag it out of my throat!!

kortirion February 11 2008, 00:27:46 UTC

Should I say thank you? *G* Or sorry!

It was onlygoing to be the first two... but the third one snuck up on me and demanded to be included.

shirebound February 10 2008, 14:13:21 UTC

Ohhh, this is a lovely, bittersweet series. But I especially like, They knew his ways, knew he valued his solitude, his time of small pleasures hard won.

kortirion February 11 2008, 00:30:20 UTC

Thanks very much. :)

I suspect to be alone he had to like being alone... or perhaps being alone makes you accustomed to it, enough so you enjoy you're own company

It seemed right anyway - and I'm pleased that you like the phrasing.

just_ann_now February 12 2008, 01:25:23 UTC

Fields were cultivated, timber felled, water harnessed for milling and... that great luxury - for the bath-house!

Ha! But it makes perfect sense, doesn't it? I really love the contrast between that scruffy ranger's "ruggedness" and his uninhibited delight in hot silky water and the clean, fresh scent of the soap.

sleek as an otter Oh, perfect! That's definitely his daemon, clever and sly but also with a mischievous and fun-filled side, too.

When faced with nothing but hard, rugged paths to follow, he cherished small memories of pleasures fleetingly taken...

That is one damn lovely line of course I'm not thinking about Aragorn and Halbarad when I read it though. Damn lovely, yes indeed.

kortirion February 12 2008, 02:33:09 UTC

You nearly got another one about bath-houses in Harad... and there was that sauna in Rohan... but I decided a trilogy was plenty! *G*

'sleek as an otter'... That's definitely his daemon, clever and sly but also with a mischievous and fun-filled side, too

You know I hadn't thought of that, but it's true you know - tough and adaptable, but able to take delight in life and play, as well as efficiently killing his prey. If you'd asked I'd have replied 'snow leopard', but maybe that's too grand for a scruffy ranger, maybe when he gets to be king his transmutes to the snow leopard - powerful and regal? But an otter at heart!