Stories by jodancingtree

The ending of the Shire, and Canohando's last battle. Tragic, violent, sad, yet hope shines brightest when the night is black, and every end is a new beginning. This completes the AU that began with Another Way of Leaving.

He was the Ring-bearer's orc, bound to Frodo by solemn blood-pact, and he wore the Queen's Jewel. That was all Aragorn knew of him until the last springtime of his reign, when Canohando appreared in Minas Tirith, seeking the Lady whose jewel he wore.

Sam's face kept coming into Frodo's dreams, shocking him awake as if someone had pressed cold steel against his throat. The mask of grief on Sam's honest, dirty face, looking up at him without seeing him…
He lay trembling in the dark; beside him Radagast snored gently.
Continuing the story begun in Another Way of Leaving.

Frodo had hoped that Gandalf would take him along into the West, but that invitation never came. Despair grew in him, and at last he crept away from Bag End in the middle of the night, intent on finding a place where he could end the pain and his life at one blow, without grieving Sam, or Merry, or anyone who loved him. And he ended up hiding in a tree with the Brown Wizard, who had walked into the middle of his attempt at self-destruction, and called him Donkey and given him an apple for breakfast.

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