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Title: Green (#3342)
Author: Lilan
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings
Description: The Rangers and Ithilien.
Published: 05 Mar 2007
Updated: 05 Mar 2007
Warnings: None
Type: Drama
Characters: Faramir


Chapter 1 - Green

A/N: Last December Cressida gave me a "Green" drabble challenge, and I couldn't come up with anything for a long long time, until something suddenly snapped in my head, and there, I had it!!

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Spring painted Ithilien in all shades of green.

Faramir watched the marching Orcs through the prickly intricate lace of a hawthorn bush, half-hidden by a tree trunk clad in dark ivy, his feet in the new springy grass. A few paces away, another Ranger crouched behind a tall moss-covered stump; yet another sat quietly in the rich crown of a pine tree, its every dark branch having grown a funny tip of a lighter hue.

The land itself grants us its blessing, sheltering us in return for our care, he thought.

And the first arrow flew off with a twang.
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