When the river runs dry by daughterofshadows
Fanwork Notes
I wrote this during the Instadrabble session 20.08.2022 for the prompts Restoration of Whychus Creek (video) and the quote When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life. Don’t waste time looking back. - Leon Brown.
Grundy assured me that this would also be okay to post in the actual Silm section, but since this is literally set during the events of the Two Towers, my heart disagreed.
Luckily, we now have the Beyond the Silmarillion section!
To celebrate I'm posting this double drabble where it belongs in my mind.
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Summary:
How does Saruman's work in Isengard affect the animals living around the River Isen?
Today, the field mice tell the story of the days when the Isen disappeared completely.
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Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet
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Rating: General
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Chapters: 1 Word Count: 201 Posted on 20 August 2022 Updated on 20 August 2022 This fanwork is complete.
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The mice may have gotten the order of events somewhat wrong, but you have to excuse them. Times were hard and confusing and when the days blur together it is difficult to remember what happened first.
(In other words, I didn't want to grab the book to fact check whether the ents were responsible for holding back the river, or whether it was Saruman. The field mice are blaming Saruman)
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