I Sit and Think of Times There Were Before by Erdariel
Fanwork Notes
For the Everyman challenge prompt "Only three of [Isildur's] people came ever back over the mountains after long wandering …" (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)
In all honesty I had been thinking that I wanted to write a story of Ohtar's journey from Gladden Fields to Rivendell for a long while. For several reasons, the two main of which are that I find Ohtar fascinating despite (or maybe because) how little is known of him, and that I wanted to find a satisfying way to settle the questions created by the details of timing given in the Unfinished Tales compared with the timeline printed in the Lord of the Rings. I had even started writing a fic on these events, but it got nowhere and was never posted because I couldn't get the style I'd started with to work and I felt I would have to scrap it, do more planning, and start entirely from scratch with a new fic.
So seeing the prompt in the challenge's list gave me a good reason to finally stop procrastinating and start writing this fic. And then it got completely out of control because Ohtar kept talking about things I had not meant for him to go on at such length about, so now this is a multichapter (I am expecting three chapters, but I've yet to finish writing the fic as I post this, so there's a possibility that the number will be something else).
As I'm still writing the story, the tags and warnings may change and new ones may be added with later chapters.
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Summary:
In his old age, Isildur's former esquire Ruinamacil, known to later histories only as Ohtar, writes his own account of his escape from the ambush at Gladden Fields and journey to Imladris, and the history of his friend whom Isildur ordered to flee with him.
Major Characters: Ohtar, Unnamed Male Canon Character(s)
Major Relationships:
Genre: General, In-Universe Artifact
Challenges: Everyman
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 533 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is a work in progress.
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