Last Alliance by Isil Elensar

A great vignette about a warrior and the memories and hopes and strength that keep him alive.  Now you've got me wondering if Guran survived and came home to Nediel.

Very atmospheric and you do a good job of showing some of the gritty realities of war that are so often glossed over. You could add to the range of sensory insults by saying more about the extremes of the elements, the dirt and the smell but otherwise it's good to read about an ordinary soldier during an extraordinary battle.

The weight of a seven year siege is hard to imagine, but your "Last Alliance" addresses a slice of the realities of this through your protagonist, Guran, and his yearnings for his lover and home.  Very poignant and also a timeless theme that reaches from JRRT's secondary world to our primary one.  As an aficionado of this event and era (but predominantly from those left behind), I really enjoyed this.