Assistance by Himring
Fanwork Notes
The 2023 prompts used for this New Year's Resolution fill were:
Cheesy Corn Chips challenge:
"The Present" (short film)
Middle-earth is Multitudes challenge: characters with mobility issues (physical disability and displacement also can be taken to apply).
The characters affected by the mobility issues are strongly inspired by the film (which describes their first meeting and is not set in Middle-earth). But the piece is not quite a "fusion".
My apologies if the result might be felt by some to be too cheesy; no disrespect was intended.
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Summary:
Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.
Major Characters: Original Male Character(s), Gil-galad
Major Relationships:
Artwork Type: No artwork type listed
Genre: Fluff
Challenges: Cheesy Corn Chips, Middle-earth Is Multitudes, New Year's Resolution
Rating: General
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 182 Posted on 28 January 2024 Updated on 28 January 2024 This fanwork is complete.
Assistance
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Tap-tap-tap comes the sound of the wooden crutches on the stone floor.
The boy is missing his right leg below the knee. He is thin, probably both from lack of good food and a recent growth spurt.
Beside him, keeping pace, a dog with short yellowish fur hops along. He is missing his left front foreleg.
Gil-galad, seeing them approach, rises from his chair on the dais. The audience hall is long. Gil-galad feels a strong urge to leap forward and pick up the boy and tuck him under his right arm and the dog under his left. But the immense dignity of the boy and the expertise with which he wields his crutches restrain him. So does the cheerful insouciance of the dog.
‘Your majesty,’ announces the boy, when the two of them arrive in front of the dais, apparently oblivious that Gil-galad was led to expect a request for royal charity, ‘we have come to help you build Forlond.’
Gil-galad gravely inclines his head.
‘We of Forlond thank you for your offer of assistance.’
Chapter End Notes
I have also used the current tolkienshortfanworks prompt "building".
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