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A door opens, and suddenly the sound of a baby wailing echoes across the nearby chunk of the Nexus. A bleary-eyed Victor Van Dort steps through, bouncing said wailing baby in his arms. "It's okay, it's okay. . .look, we're -- um." He blinks a few times as he registers where he is. "This isn't. . .oh, dear, how did I manage to choose the wrong door?" He goes to step back through --
Then stops, shakes his head, and proceeds to the nearest safe-looking bit of furniture, still cradling his son. "No. Perhaps someone can help here. At least, Alice and the others will get some decent sleep for a change. . ." He looks up, an exhausted man at the end of his rope. "Is there anyone around who's had at least one child and might know why they sometimes just start crying in the middle of the night and won't stop no matter what you do?"
Then stops, shakes his head, and proceeds to the nearest safe-looking bit of furniture, still cradling his son. "No. Perhaps someone can help here. At least, Alice and the others will get some decent sleep for a change. . ." He looks up, an exhausted man at the end of his rope. "Is there anyone around who's had at least one child and might know why they sometimes just start crying in the middle of the night and won't stop no matter what you do?"
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Date: 2019-08-23 03:29 am (UTC)Walking through the wrong door sounds bad, it does. Worse from thisss side, mind. With our luck we'd be back in Mordor somewhere, yes we would!
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Date: 2019-08-25 02:41 am (UTC)Well, considering it led to me finding out how to best soothe my son, I'd consider it the right door now. . .Mordor? [he makes a face] Goodness, even the name sounds unpleasant. . .so that's where you fell from?
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Date: 2019-08-25 03:07 am (UTC)Yess. We've been to the Dead Marshes before the Black Gate, and up the stairses to Cirith Ungol. We've been across the Plateau of Gorgoroth and was once taken captive in Barad-Dur itself. We fell at Sauron's forge of old; Sammath Naur, in the mountain Orodruin.
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Date: 2019-08-26 04:33 am (UTC)[Victor tilts his head at the recounting Smeagol gives of the place names] It all sounds so -- mean. [he shakes his head, still holding Chester tight -- he'd have better words if he weren't so sleep-deprived] Like it's where all the nastiness in your world lives.
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Date: 2019-08-26 05:21 am (UTC)The lassst of the great old evilses dwelt there. I met that evil face to face, one of few to sssee him and live in the third age of the world.
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Date: 2019-08-27 04:29 am (UTC)[that makes him suck in a breath, instinctively clutching Chester to his chest] Oh my. . .that must have been terrifying.
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Date: 2019-08-27 04:45 am (UTC)We felt the touch of hisss Black Hand and bear the marks ssstill, yesss. But we knew him long ere we met. We held hisss Precious, where he had placed hisss power, for years uncounted under ssstone. Found it fishing, our cousssin and we. It--it wasss our birthday present. *His eyes flick to the child. Whatever hobbitness is starting to return in the Nexus doesn't want to say what happened on that birthday long ago in front of the baby, and he hates thinking about it in any case.* We were warped by that Black Hand half a millennium before we met. We hateses it!
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Date: 2019-08-28 03:42 am (UTC)[Chester's not really old enough to understand, but the attempt at discretion is appreciated in any case. Victor grimaces in sympathy] Oh dear, that's -- wait. Half a -- that's 500 years, isn't it? Goodness me, how old are you? [Smeagol doesn't exactly look young, granted, but Victor didn't take him for that old!]
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Date: 2019-08-28 05:26 am (UTC)We isss 500 and 80 and 9, we think. Birth year wasss 2430 of the Third Age of the Years of the Sssun. *He seems proud that he remembered all that, which to be fair is hard even when you're not 589.* Life was not kind. Fate was not kind. All our long life in misery wasss for the greater bedamned good, but what help wasss that to usss? We ssshould have lived a little time in peace. Precious wouldn't let usss, and we loved it. We wish we hadn't. We wish we didn't, never!
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Date: 2019-08-29 04:37 am (UTC)[his eyes widen as Smeagol gives his age] Goodness me. . . [he worries his lower lip] So long under that thing's spell? I'm so sorry. That -- even if it was for the greater good, you're right, it's not fair at all. You deserved better.
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Date: 2019-08-29 04:49 am (UTC)At the very end we felt the breath of Eru. We knew the Enemy would eat the world if he got hisss Ring again, and his Eye had finally found it. The Precious we ssso loved cursed us to never touch it again lest we fall into the very Cracks of Doom. We were ssso tired. Smeagol's eyes be clearing now that Precious melted, we sssee how we were always where Fate needed usss to be. Where it needed me to be.
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Date: 2019-08-30 03:24 am (UTC)So if you hadn't been there, hadn't made sure the Enemy didn't find his Ring. . .then your whole world would have. . . [Victor would offer a comforting pat if his hands weren't currently filled with baby] Sounds like you were very important to your world, in the end. But it's still a sad fate for you personally.
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From:Finished rereading the Silmarilion, it has this effect LOL
From:*snork* I know that effect well from other books
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From:Fun fact: most of the names used in LotR are changed to give an equivalent effect for us
From:Fun indeed!
From:Tolkien did worldbuilding to the point of overdoing it
From:LOL, yes, so I've heard. Made for some good books though
From:Damn good books
From:Very much so! I first read them for a college English course, and quite enjoyed them
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From:I know I replied to this . . . oh well
From:Maybe DW ate the comment. They did have some unexpected downtime late last week
From:Yeah, maybe. Oh, I have a new post if you're interested
From:Mmm -- and yeah, think I might throw Dee over there for a change
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From:As someone who likes BttF, have you ever seen Primer? Now there's a crazy time travel film . . .
From:I have not, actually -- though I have heard that it's a pretty complicated one, yeah
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