Fic Rec Fridays 2020 - part 22

The Counsels of Men (3290 words) by ThunderaTiger
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Aragorn II, Gimli, Legolas Greenleaf
Additional Tags: War of the Ring, General
Summary:

An answer to a question: Why weren't Legolas and Gimli at the Last Debate? Featuring Legolas, Gimli, and Aragorn on the morning after the Battle of the Pelennor.

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And so it has come to this: I have been reduced to copy-pasting my own bookmark notes, as follows:

Lovely clean prose, enjoyable dialogue, and in all, a very in-character and canonically solid gap-filler.

Every word above is true, though, and on hindsight, I would add something about the bittersweet truth underpinning the precariously grim setting: that even if they manage to stave off the apocalypse for now, this world, this time and this era on Middle-earth are coming to an end. And not all Free Peoples are made equal in the face of such change.

Savour slowly, and spare a passing thought to the seeds of beginning enfolded into every ending.