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B2MeM 2012: A Spirit in Shadows  by Mirach

46. Thorongil

With that feeling of being close to what he was looking for, he turned around and chose another corridor, hoping the tapestries will reveal more to him. He passed several of them, but he forgot what they depicted as soon as he turned away, not knowing the scenes from his own experience.

But then he passed one, and he thought he recognized the scene depicted in it. He remembered the day when they arrived to Meduseld, and Théoden son of Thengel rode to war against the power of Isengard. In the same day, Erkebrand, Elfhelm and Grimbold defended the Fords of Isen against the odds of Saruman's hosts. The moment in the tapestry depicted Grimbold's camp, surrounded by orcs, his men preparing to break through.

And the next one depicted a scene during the Long Winter, when Helm Hammerhand took refuge in the mountains, in the fortress that will bear his name in years to come. He was on the tapestry, blowing his horn, dressed in white like a vengeful spirit of the snow that covered whole Rohan, prepared to sneak into a Dunlending camp and kill the enemies with his bare hands. He has seen this before… But where? There was a carving in Meduseld… He used to look at it during the boring hours when he stood as a guard in the long hall… Yes, he used to know this!

Intrigued by the images of Rohan, he looked around, and saw another tapestry – and with surprise he realized it is him, riding as Thorongil at the side of the Marshal of the Mark, warrior among warriors. He was Thorongil! That was his name! He remembered that moment – they rode from Dunharrow that morning, and the horses waded like mighty ships through the geen sea of high, sweetly smelling grass. The plains of Rohan stretched far and wide before them, the weather calm and sunny. It seemed almost surreal that in such a nice day, they were going to fight and kill. They rode into a battle with the Dunlanders, and it was the first time he saw those people, or heard Dunlending spoken. In that battle, he killed his first man…

Only years later did he learn to speak Dunlending. Somehow, it was easier to kill a man when he didn't understand his language…





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