So after yesterday's depressing entry, I'm going to hit you with an equally depressing one! But it is Monday, after all...
The Last Grey Ship is another MEFA award winner (2004), but this three-chapter fic by ErinRua is cannon-compliant. It explores Gimli and Legolas' reaction to Aragorn's death, and Gimli's decision to sail to Westernesse with Legolas. It's an incredibly beautiful story, a real tear-jerker, and less than 10,000 words long.
Another fic in this vein is Beyond this World (MEFA winner 2005), written by the excellent author Thundera Tiger -- there will be more on her in a later post. For now, just know that Beyond this World gives us a glimpse of Legolas and Gimli's life on the hither shore, and tells the story of a friendship that can never be broken. Sweet, right?
I hope you take the little bit of time to read these stories -- they are truly worth it! And if you don't have time for the stories... Peter Jackson just posted a new Hobbit TV spot on the facebook page in which we see Smaug and Dol Guldur at last! Along with something that looks like... the War between Dwarves and Orcs? The Battle of Azanulbizar? I'm curious to see how they're going to work that one in, considering it happened 150 years before "The Hobbit"!
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