West, West Away by Arveldis

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Summary:

It was the Elvenking. He gazed at the disappearing haven and the encircling hills with a strange, sorrowful expression upon his face, as if he felt the same uncomfortable tug of uprooting that Sam did, feeling as if he had been removed from his familiar soil and planted somewhere he didn’t belong, at least not yet.

Sam watched him, feeling like he was intruding on a private moment, but he couldn’t look away. It was strange to think that a king of the Elves might feel as displaced and torn as he did, but Sam felt suddenly in that moment that he understood the Elvenking, high and lordly though he was.

Sam meets an unlikely kindred spirit on the journey West.

Major Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Thranduil

Major Relationships: Samwise Gamgee & Thranduil

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: General

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Rating: General

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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 3, 654
Posted on 11 July 2023 Updated on 19 July 2023

This fanwork is complete.

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Written for Tolkien Gen Week Day 7: Freeform

(An expansion of this ficlet I wrote earlier this year for the Three Sentence Ficathon on Dreamwidth.)


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