Tolkien Fan Fiction
Tolkien Fan Fiction
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Vistula's Drabbles
By:Vistula the Dunadan
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Blood Brothers - Legolas and Aragorn

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“Forget it! You don’t understand…”

You’d been a boy then on the cusp of manhood, and I already your senior by many centuries. The ritual was simple but barbaric, the meaning unclear.

“I do not see how mingling our blood will change things, mellon-nin.”

“I said forget it.”

Many long roads we have walked together since. You never again spoke of that moment though I know it burned your heart for many days. Your silence grieved me. I never meant to hurt you.

But now, as your warrior’s blood slips between my fingers and touches my heart, I finally understand.