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Ailments Challenge; Cold. "What Now?"

Feb 23, 2013 20:01

Title: What Now?
Challenge; Cold
Author: Curiouswombat
Characters: Gandalf
Rating: G
Source: LotR

Disclaimer: The characters in this story do not belong to me, but are being used for amusement only, and all rights remain with the estate of JRR Tolkien.

( What Now? )

author: curiouswombat, challenge: ailments: cold, character: gandalf

Comments 20

mrowe February 23 2013, 20:26:02 UTC

As his eyes ran and, horrors, more fluid streamed from his nose, Mithrandir was not sure if he wanted to stay alive until the spring…

*heh*

I think we've all had that cold...

curiouswombat February 23 2013, 20:59:31 UTC

Yep! and that icon probably looks quite a lot like poor Gandalf did at the time!

littlemouseno February 24 2013, 15:25:25 UTC

"...excrete stuff." LOL Loved that description. Poor Mithrandir. All sorts of new things to learn about being in a mortal body, and he's getting little sympathy from the elves! I hope he doesn't mind a hug. :)

curiouswombat February 24 2013, 16:07:20 UTC

Oh the elves are sort of sympathetic - but speak only from observation!

I'm glad you liked poor Mithrandir's horror of all this... excreting!

cairistiona7 February 24 2013, 16:14:46 UTC

As his eyes ran and, horrors, more fluid streamed from his nose, Mithrandir was not sure if he wanted to stay alive until the spring…

I can sooooo relate. I'm trying madly to avoid a horrendous 2-week long cold/sore throat/cough/ick virus daughter caught and then kindly shared with hubby.

Poor Gandalf!

curiouswombat February 24 2013, 16:34:16 UTC

I do feel for him. Actually my daughter appears to be suffering from much the same at the moment, as well - obviously the immune system is beginning to falter a little after so much cold weather.

huinare February 24 2013, 20:24:40 UTC

I do think a cold would be truly horrible if someone has lived millennia and never had one. I mean, they're bad enough on a yearly basis. Poor Gandalf!

curiouswombat February 24 2013, 20:42:24 UTC

I feel I am being rather mean to him, really... :)

azalaisdep February 24 2013, 22:51:40 UTC

Urrrgh. The delights of bodily fluids! This is wickedly funny.

(And I've just realised that in many ways poor Olorin does draw a short straw - catapulted straight into an elderly mortal body, with all the extra frailties and aches and pains that brings, without ever having the experience and the memories of a fitter, younger one! No wonder he's grumpy!)

curiouswombat February 24 2013, 23:14:07 UTC

This is wickedly funny.

Thank you!

poor Olorin does draw a short straw

He really did, didn't he? I have enjoyed allowing him to keep the body in a slightly upgraded, and fitter, form in 'Immigrants' and 'The Valinor Trail'. But it really won't make up for all those years of old age with no youth!