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Title: Let Them Come (#4438)
Author: NancyBrooke
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Lord of the Rings (Movieverse)
Description: How Theoden sets his mind to the defense of the Hornburg against ten thousand Uruk Hai, "bred for a single purpose".
Published: 11 Aug 2012
Updated: 11 Aug 2012
Warnings: None
Type: Drama
Characters: Theoden; Aragorn (implied)


Chapter 1 - Let Them Come

‘Ten Thousand’ he says; and I see Rohirrim beset by three, no, five orcs each. ‘So many?’

‘… to destroy the world of men’.

Destroyed … lost. Lost … like something misplaced, uncared for and unobserved … lost. I have lost … but my eyes had become enshrouded and I did not see … I lost him.

My eyes are open now, and what they see is all I have left to love encircled within the Hornburg.

I refuse to lose a one of them. This man is king of nothing and no one; he cannot understand all I will not lose.

‘Let them come.’
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