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| The Ranger and the Hobbit by Cairistiona | 16 Review(s) |
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| Lexilooper | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 1/23/2026 |
| At Ferdinand’s cry, Aragorn grasped his side and pushed himself to his knees to try to move to a place where he could see the valley. "What do you see?" he gasped. The pain was barely tolerable, but as long as he held his hand against his wound, he could move. But getting to his feet was quite beyond him. YESSSSSS now that he is in safety he can no longer push himself so "Oh dear," Ferdinand cried again, his eyes never leaving the scene below. "Three men, foreign-looking, if you take my meaning. Not dressed at all like Northern Big Folk. Oh! Oh, yes, yes, very good! That will do nicely!" oooh Aragorn struggled to pull his feet underneath him and stand, but it was hopeless; he was simply too weak. "What? What happened?" yesssssssssss hehe his frustrated having to get information Ferdinand jumped up, waving his arms about as though brandishing an invisible sword. "Oh very good! That’s the way! There’s one down, at any rate. That black-haired Ranger is a fierce fighter, isn’t he? Look at that sword flash! Hair streaming, fire in his eyes even from here... he quite looks like some sort of Elven warrior! Maybe he is an elf! And the blonde chap as well... oh, capital! Very good! Oh but... oh dear! Oh no! Look out behind you! Oh no!" yessssssss MAYBE HE IS AN ELF hehe "What? What has happened? Tell me what you see!" sadjkgjsjkd "The blonde... oh no, he has him by the neck... Oh! Oh, you poor man! Oh, he can’t breathe! Oh, surely he can’t breathe ... oh dear ... oh my, oh my .... wait! Oh, I don’t think I can look..." oh my gosh AGONIZING SUSPENSE and he can't even see any of this or judge whether he thinks Denlad will be okay I feel so bad for Aragorn this must be worse than all the rest of his pain "Ferdinand Took, you will open your eyes and tell me what is happening!" Aragorn growled, but when the hobbit merely continued breathlessly muttering oh no’s and oh dears, Aragorn gave up and tried again to stand. He pulled one foot under him and then the other and shuffled forward but a scant two paces before spots broke out before his eyes and his legs gave out. He fell back to his knees, bracing one arm on the ground to keep from falling on his face as he clutched his side with the other. Ferdinand still hopped from foot to foot, uttering cries of dismay and telling Aragorn absolutely nothing of help. If the situation had not been so dire, Aragorn might have laughed at the absurdity of it all. "Ferdinand, please!" he begged. SKAKGHSKJS STRUGGLING TO HIS FEET TO SEE AND FALLING STRAIGHTAWAY bracing his arm to keep from the pain of fully hitting the ground Ferdinand suddenly leapt straight into the air. "Oh! Oh! He stabbed him in the stomach!" "Who stabbed who in the stomach?" SKASJD "Your blonde friend! Oh my! Oh dear!" "Denlad was stabbed?" OH MY GOSH HE'S MAKING THINGS WORSE "No, no, no," Ferdinand cried impatiently. "Denlad did the stabbing." He stared hard, suddenly silent, then finally nodded as if in satisfaction. "Yes, yes. That appears to have done it for him. Very good. All appears well in hand now, thank goodness. Two brigands look to be dead and the one Denlad stabbed is on the ground, close to it from all appearances. It looks as though they are questioning him. Oh, that cheeky rascal! I believe he just spat at your Denlad. After he was the one who attacked. I ask you! It’s just too much." yessss He turned to glance briefly at Aragorn. "Here now! Get you back to bed! THANK YOU for noticing now Or at least to your bedroll, seeing as we hardly have proper furniture out here in the wilds. But back to it, proper or not, young man! Could you not satisfy yourself with what I told you? No, I suppose not. Have to see for yourself, don’t you, like all stubborn Men, Elves, Hobbits and Dwarves. Can’t be satisfied with being told the facts, no. Have to leap to your feet and injure yourself further in the name of satisfying your curiousity when all you had to do was listen to what I told you." lolll uh well you weren't doing a great job of commentary Aragorn opened his mouth to protest, then shut it without saying anything. There was little point. He meekly submitted to Ferdinand’s fussing and, hauling himself shakily back to his feet, whoa impressive even with Ferdinand's support lol thank you for submitting this time Aragorn <3 the fight is over, no reason in fighting the care now let the small hobbit help him back to his spot by the rock. He waved off Ferdinand’s demand that he lay flat, however. Seeing how hard it was to get to a seated position, he preferred to stay that way for the time being. It seemed to hurt the same, either way, and he would as soon be sitting upright when Denlad and Halbarad arrived; otherwise he was sure to raise such alarm in the two that he would never be able to convince them that his death was hardly at hand. LOL okay that's very fair and true. He doesn't want to frighten them or spend energy convincing them. I feel like when he does lay down though he will find there is some relief compared to sitting "Let me see that wound now." Like earlier, he peeled back the bandage just enough to check. This time Aragorn noticed that Ferdinand had somehow applied the bandage so that the entire thing need not be unwound to expose the wound, but only a few layers in front. He made a note to have Ferdinand show him how he managed such a clever arrangement. Ferdinand peered closely at the stitches, clucking a bit like a hen fussing over her chicks. "Good, the stitches are still intact. Does it hurt, much?" ooooh cool Aragorn nodded. "But nothing I cannot bear." hmm a low bar what does "cannot bear" mean, anyways? screaming? passing out? in any case it is still pain felt and even if it seems beyond bearing, without medicine it is there and must be borne one way or another also he actually nodded, good "Hmm, I am not sure whether to believe you. I can all but hear your teeth grinding against one another." YESSSSSS HA Aragorn breathed a laugh. He supposed he did have his jaw clenched rather tightly. He forced himself to relax. "Your ears are too sharp." "And my eyes still sharper, and they see a face white and drawn with pain, so best you stop all this playacting at being brave." THANK YOUUUUUU "You would rather have me screaming and writhing, then?" SO HE ADMITS HE FEELS LIKE IT "The screaming I can do without. Up to you whether you want to writhe or not. It seems to me that would be quite painful, though, so best you be still, I think." LOL i love him "I think, too," Aragorn agreed, and did his best to do just that. Simply breathing was bad enough. Writhing was out of the question. lollllllllll so fair Ferdinand replaced the bandage, then gave him a fatherly pat on the shoulder, an incongruous gesture coming from such a small person and one so much younger than himself. Then Ferdinand laid a hand on his forehead. "Still no fever. Very good, that, but are you sure you do not want to lie down? You look so pale, and there are great dark smudges under your eyes." He chuckled. "Your friends will think I punched you." yesss Aragorn laughed, then winced. "Pray do not make me laugh, Master Took." HEHE "Then be a good patient and lay down, if you’re not interested in eating." "I might try a bit of that bacon," Aragorn offered. hmmm good luck and I hope you're not (actually hope you are) doing it just to appease him "Ah, there’s the spirit!" Ferdinand cried, then bustled to the fire and stirred it up. He poked at the contents of the skillet and fished out a strip of bacon and put it on a plate. He eyed it dubiously. "It does not seem enough. Are you sure you don’t want some sausage as well?" lolll it would seem skimpy to a hobbit, but no. "Just the bacon, thank you." <3 Ferdinand shrugged and handed him the plate, putting it on his lap as he had the one last night. "There you are. Perhaps it will whet your appetite for more. You need to eat." okay wait I just realized he's also carrying around full-on dishes XD Aragorn bit off a small bite and chewed. It did taste good, but he knew it was best to wait to see how it settled on his stomach before trying more. mm yes Ferdinand came back with a cup. "Water. You’ll need it, eating all that salty bacon. And I don’t think you should drink any more of that ginger tea. I sipped it and it’s horrid. I don’t know how you stood it." LOL advising him based on taste "I don’t normally make it quite so strong," Aragorn said as he took the cup of water with a grateful nod. He was terribly thirsty, now that he thought on it. Blood loss, he supposed. lollll fair nice, he has lost a lot :) "Well, your friends will no doubt soon be here. They will surely be hungry after such a fight." Aragorn thought he seemed quite calm, considering he had just watched several men kill and be killed. Hobbits do seem resilient, he thought as he watched Ferdinand pull food–more sausage and more potatoes and an onion–from his seemingly bottomless pack. He quickly peeled and sliced the vegetables with small but capable hands. Was there nothing this hobbit was not skilled at, Aragorn wondered as he worked at his bacon. LOLL YES THEY ARE RESILIENT I love Ferdinand lol. Yesss bottomless pack ALL THE SKILLS I love how he's reduced to eating a single piece of bacon is work :) "Do your friends like sausages and potatoes?" Ferdinand suddenly asked. DO THEY "In general, we eat anything that doesn’t eat us first." Ferdinand let out a merry laugh. "Oh, I do like you, young man. Such a wit you possess!" LOLLL uh well "’Tis not wit so much as the truth," Aragorn smiled, then leaned his head back against the rock and closed his eyes. The sun’s touch warmed his face. It felt good. precisely :) "What do Rangers like you eat?" Ferdinand asked. "Whatever we can hunt up, usually. Deer, if there’s several of us together, or if I’m alone, sometimes a brace of coneys. A pheasant. Whatever I catch in a snare. Handful of mushrooms and maybe some wild onions. Whatever berries might be ripe. I have been desperate enough at times to try snake." mmm yep "Snake! Horrid!" lolll "It is not as bad as you might think. But it’s poor pickings... not much meat on a snake." "Well, if I never have to eat snake, I’ll consider my life very well blessed indeed." awww I love him. He now considers not eating snake a great blessing, instead of eating it a great cursing :) "I have had worse." "Such as?" He opened his eyes and took a sip of water. "One time, in my travels, I was invited to a nobleman’s banquet. He served me breaded eyeballs. Sheep, I believe, but I was never quite certain."* LOL EEP and...the chick in the egg that one time "Oh, now, surely not! Who would eat that?" "People in the lands east of Khand, apparently." "East of... you’ve been that far?" heheheeeee "Hmm," Aragorn said, setting aside the cup and closing his eyes again. "They call me Strider for good reason." as Ferdinand would, he too uses his long legs for striding across middle-earth :)) "I should say so," Ferdinand said rather faintly. Aragorn opened one eye a slit and chuckled at the dumbfounded expression on the hobbit’s face. You are not the only one full of surprises, Master Took. The things I could tell you... yessss I love people catching a glimpse of how cool he is, how much he's seen But of course, he could not. It would hardly do to start bragging about his royal lineage, not with the chances of his ever becoming king seeming to hover somewhere below his chances of taking flight by flapping his arms and cawing like a crow. skajdsfkgh <:((( Although sometimes it would be nice, not to have secrets. Not to have to play at subterfuge and evasion. To actually have people look at him and not scurry away in fear and suspicion. SAKDSFJGKDHFDD <:( again, the thing he told Frodo, about wearying of suspicion and secrecy He started to sigh, but remembered his wound just in time and instead let the sun’s warmth entice his mind away from such dark paths. Within moments, most conscious thought dribbled away as sleep crept over his mind. He listened to the small sounds Ferdinand made, and his mind, even half asleep, categorized the myriad insect and bird noises... that was a wren... and there was a cricket... and that little rustling is likely a field mouse.... yess cannot even sigh :) aww filing the noises <3 I would love to one day know a quarter the things he does A louder rustle roused him a bit. ooooh yay "I expect that must be your friends drawing nigh," Ferdinand said. YAY Aragorn nodded but was too tired to open his eyes. Halbarad would just have to find him asleep... sorry to let Halbarad think him dead... waking was just too much bother... LOLLL from "Can't be bothered to lay down for fear he thinks me dead" to "can't be bothered to stay awake he can think me dead instead" But then Ferdinand let out a loud squawk. Aragorn’s eyes flew open and he was lunging for his sword even before fully realizing a Southron was emerging from the bushes. His fist closed around the hilt, but before he could grasp it, a heavy boot smashed down on his hand. SKSSFHGJKDFKD HEHEHEHEE I kind of hoped but was not really expecting the Aragorn-getting-hurt adventure to continue a little longer :)))) SMASHING ON HIS HAND did that break some bones...surely a terrible bruise at the least I love his instincts to grab his sword overriding even the processing of pain signals ALSO WHAT IS IT WITH THESE GUYS THEY WON'T STOP APPEARING ;_; good thing he was sitting up actually I don't know if it'll actually help much but he would have been really quite helpless laying down. He can't move that fast, and trying to sit up that fast would've relied on muscles that literally are not working right now HA SO HE IS REFERRING TO THAT TIME AND FIGURED OUT WHAT IT WAS HAHA | |
| Mirach | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/12/2009 |
| I enjoyed the conversation between Aragorn and Ferdinand greatly, Ferdinand would make a great sport comentator! *g* It looked through the whole chapter that there is no more reason to worry, when suddenly, at the very end... ah, I'm really glad that the next chapter is already there! Author Reply: LOL! Can't you see Ferdinand doing a play-by-play of the Battle of the Pelennor? Glad you liked this one, and yeah, since the chapters are all there for you, the cliffhanger won't leave you hanging too long! Thanks for the review! | |
| Minerva Organa | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/10/2009 |
| Oh, dear!!! Not good, not good! Lucky me, I didn't have time to read this till you had posted the next chapter already, so no cliffie this time! =P Am still enjoying this immensely. Ferdinand is absolutely wonderful! Author Reply: Thanks, Minerva! There's definitely pluses to falling behind in your reading, especially with this tale. (Although I see from your review of the next chapter, you didn't fall behind *quite* far enough! LOL) I'm glad you're enjoying this so much... it's such a relief knowing the everyone seems to like little Ferdinand. He's definitely found a spot in my heart! Thanks for the review! | |
| Lily Baggins | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/8/2009 |
| Woman, you ARE the epitome of darkness for leaving us on such a note! Oh my goodness . . . I know you had it out for Aragorn's arms in At Hope's Edge, and now I'm thinking it's his poor hand, lol! I admit you caught me off guard, and I bow to you for making this story so suspenseful and exciting just when I thought it was safe for Aragorn to relax. Apparently not. I must say that I do hope that the Southron manages to hurt Aragorn just a wee bit more well, since he's there and all . . . Looking VERY forward to the next chapter! Author Reply: Oh my, Lily... you call me evil when you're hoping Aragorn's hurt a wee bit more??? You're hopeless. *g* But I'm glad you're enjoying the suspense. I like stories where you really don't know where the next chapter... or next paragraph... will take you. Thanks for the review! | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/8/2009 |
| Oh no! ANOTHER cliffie! Whoa! I certainly hope Halbarad and Denlad hurry up! Poor Ferdinand, too! I did like the way he described the fight-- it sounded positively Pippish! And his worrying about Aragorn eating, and preparing to feed the others was a neat touch... But, oh dear! Author Reply: Two apples from the same Tookish apple tree, possibly! I'm glad you liked this... and er, yeah, another cliffie. I'm afraid there's a lot of those in this. *g* Thanks for the review! | |
| Raksha The Demon | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/8/2009 |
| Ferdinand's running commentary on the Ranger-skirmish had me giggling - very well written, though; and I could just see him doing it (also a great literary device for enlightening the reader as to the distant action and being light on the exposition)! And then, Ferdinand orders the unfrocked King-of-the-West to his bedroll; with complete Hobbit authority. But you ended with a CLIFFIE! Bad, bad Cairistiona! Any chance that Ferdinand could break the Southron's kneecap? Author Reply: LOL... breaking a kneecap, eh? That'd be about the right height, wouldn't it? *g* I'm glad the commentary made you giggle. I definitely wanted a lighter moment at this point of the story, because... hmm, I best not say or I'll spoil things. And yes, I'm evil... bwa ha ha! I like cliffhangers. *g* Thanks for the review! | |
| Silivren Tinu | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/8/2009 |
| Every time I expect a nice, happy reunion it turns out a certain *evil* author has other plans. *glares* I really didn't expect any danger at that point, though I did have a bad feeling about those Southrons. I think I was at least as surprised as poor Aragorn was! I'm beginning to think I'll soon have reason to dislike the Southrons even more. Somehow I don't believe Ferdinand is that good at protecting hurt rangers from armed villains. *has a quite entertaining mental image of Ferdinand trying to jump high enough to hit the Southron on the head with his frying pan* I hope Halbarad and Denlad hurry up! *pokes them* Well, I'll just sit here and happily continue fretting (and poking rangers) until the next chapter. *g* Loved the beginning, btw! Ferdinands antics and his idea of giving information to Aragorn made me laugh so much, lol! It's a wonder Aragorn didn't start pulling his hair out. ;-) //Look at that sword flash! Hair streaming, fire in his eyes even from here...// Oh, I really wish Halbarad could have heard that! :D //Have to leap to your feet and injure yourself further in the name of satisfying your curiousity when all you had to do was listen to what I told you.// *chokes* I admire Aragorn's self-control. *chuckles* It's so like Ferdinand to start cooking right away in prepartion for Halbarad and Denlad's arrival. I was looking forward to "seeing" their suprised faces and hearing their comments upon finding Aragorn already patched-up and well-fed in the company of a hobbit... but of course, *someone* had other plans. ;-) I enjoyed this chapter a lot and am looking forward to the next one! :) Author Reply: Hee hee... yes, it's far too early for a happy, carefree reunion. The lesson of this chapter is don't fall asleep until you're *sure* all the Southrons are accounted for. :) I'm glad you liked the humor in this... keep poking those Rangers because um, well, I can't really say at this point. *g* Thanks for the review! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/8/2009 |
| I agree--you are evil! Heh! So, this is where the fourth Southron went, then? Not good. Now--how do we get out of this one? Author Reply: Yes, I admit to being evil.. it's just too much fun! LOL Thank you for putting up with all the twists and turns and cliffhangers. :) | |
| Fantasia | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/7/2009 |
| I was laughing so hard with Ferdinand fight description...poor Aragorn, I was sure that he was having a heart attack. And here I was thinking in a happy reunion and you have another Southron coming unnvited to the camp...Please, update soon! Author Reply: Thanks, Fantasia... no happy reunion just yet. We're only in the 5th chapter, after all! I'm glad you enjoyed Ferdinand's highly frustrating play-by-play of the fight. I don't think Aragorn was as amused as the rest of us! | |
| utfrog | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 11/7/2009 |
| Thoroughly enjoying this engaging story - then you throw in some really rough cliff hangers! Good job. Author Reply: Thanks, utfrog! I'm glad you're enjoying this despite my evil cliffhangers! *g* | |