Hairdressing Challenge--Curl

[blslarner]

Title: Drinking It In
Author: Larner
Characters: Saruman
Rating: PG
Warnings: Slightly creepy?
Book: Appendices of LOTR
Disclaimer: The Master gave us world and characters; I present the drabble.

Comments

[wormwood_7]

This is a more human Saruman than we usually see. I like this version of him.

[blslarner]

If only he'd stayed this way! Glad we see him more approachable--for now, at least.

[kortirion]

Oooo, interesting viewpoint No longer was he a houseless wanderer in largely empty lands, but a lord in his own right. ...and the more e owned the more he felt the need to defend it.

[blslarner]

Not only was he moved to defend what he had, he was moved also to seek to own and control more. Thanks, Kortirion.

[lindahoyland]

A very incitful glimpse of Sauraman

[blslarner]

At least he was still mostly wise in those days. Thanks, Linda.

[azalaisdep]

Perhaps one day he would gather an army to himself. Brrr, that's ominous. And I like the idea of that drive to power and possession having its roots in a long-resented lack of land or home. Wonder if that's one of his reasons for later despising the Grey Wanderer, who is rootless by choice...

[blslarner]

A good insight, Azalais. I wonder how he might have turned out if Cirion hadn't given him the tower?

[clodia_metelli]

A perfectly poised moment: past rootlessness, potential Grand Plans for the future, but in the here-and-now just quiet scholarship. That's both restful and very evocative.

[blslarner]

Restful for now, at least. But we see what he came to in the coming drabbles.