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Title: The Heart of Lamedon (#2111)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 2

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: “Only Angbor, Lord of Lamedon, had the heart to abide us.  And Aragorn bade him gather his folk and come behind, if they dared, when the Grey Host had passed.”

Response to OSA Drabble Challenge #20: Minor Character
Published: 29 Jul 2005
Updated: 29 Jul 2005
Warnings: 
Type: Drama
Characters: Angbor, Aragorn (implied)


Chapter 1 - Heart of Lamedon

�Only Angbor, Lord of Lamedon, had the heart to abide us. And Aragorn bade him gather his folk and come behind, if they dared, when the Grey Host had passed.�



If I dare?  If I dare?  How dare he?  

But by the shiver in my blood and the blood on my arms, I know.  Many years I have sat, in my chair, in my house, peaceably straddling Ciril and Ringló not daring to ask from whence they flow.

Death always lurked out my back door.  Now it comes to me.

Death comes down in a cold gale driven by this ragged eagle of a man.  For months I have asked for death, or life, but Minas Tirith remained silent; today, this man has brought me both.

Aye; I will dare.


Chapter 2 - Tolkien's Text

From The Return of the King, Chapter �The Last Debate,� by J. R. R Tolkien: 


�Only Angbor, Lord of Lamedon, had the heart to abide us.  And Aragorn bade him gather his folk and come behind, if they dared, when the Grey Host had passed.

�At Pelargir the Heir of Isildur will have need of you,� he said."


�Soon also there was a gathering of men out of Lebennin and the Ethir, and Angbor of Lamedon came up with all the horsemen that he could muster.�
 

��Four thousands I sent marching from Pelargir through Lossarnach two days ago; and Angbor the fearless rides before them.��
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