fic: Riven Throne and Liquid Gold [The Hobbit]
Title: Riven Throne and Liquid Gold
Fandom: The Hobbit
Characters: Fili, Kili, Bilbo, Gandal, mentions of others
A/N: Written for the comment-fic prompt: "If Kili (or Fili) had found the ring instead." Who finds the ring is deliberately left vague. Turned into a poem fill, which was fun to write.
9.
Riven throne and liquid gold
‘round dragon corpse these legends told
Armies clashing on the field
as sundered is the Oaken Shield
Desperation clouds the heart
now opened wide for darker art
Battle fever sweeps the brain
and unsuspecting brother slain
Old King’s grave and brother-bone
for Doom of Man and Arkenstone
Power lost to history
can change a loss to victory
Promises of wealth and spoil
bring Laketown Men to earthen soil
Elven king and man of Dale
see not beyond Deceiver’s veil
Allies come through masoned gate
armed well with axe and armored plate
Exiled folk returned to land
again bend low to Dwarf-king’s hand
Hammers thunder in the deep
and echo from the mountain keep
Madness festers in the mind
ambitions warped by cruel design
Darkened forge once more alight
and Durin’s line assembles might.
Middle Earth plunged into war
when forces march from Erebor
Strike of axe on lowered shield
reveals what trickery concealed
Armies from beneath the ground
their clang of steel a dreaded sound
Darkened cave and black forge smoke
now Middle Earth begins to choke
Barren rock and blackened sun
and death will come for everyone.
7.
In the dark a Halfling waits
who slipped unseen in through the gates
Carrying a sharpened Sting
and stealing back that cursed ring!
Hidden in the dragon slain
so waits the downfall of a reign
Enemy the once-called friend
who brings an age now to an end
Moment right he leaps in front
and strikes a blow with mighty grunt
Treachery of golden band
now leaves the king without a hand
Raging Dwarf is not as fast
and dripping blood he cannot last
Halfling slips through narrow gap
a passageway in ancient map
Racing up he finds the sun
Istari takes him and they run
Once thirteen now only two
all others dead but for them few
Council formed in secret place
to fight the downfall of each race
Sends a fellowship to aid
destroying ancient bane mislaid
Five companions are they now,
with swords and staff and Elven bow
Erebor to Mordor’s gate
to there determine worldly fate
3.
Dwarfs march south and orcs go north
Twin towers send their hunters forth
Wizard with a seeing stone
despairing follows future shown
Gondor’s son by arrow felled
to prophecy is other held
Ancient fire’s whipping bite
has turned the Grey into a White
Rhyming creature once more caught
divulges pathways they have sought
Ring Bearer must go alone
for dangerous the pathway shown
1.
Burden now a precious thing
he cannot toss away the ring
Halfling heart has failed the quest
and doomed the world to final rest
Fandom: The Hobbit
Characters: Fili, Kili, Bilbo, Gandal, mentions of others
A/N: Written for the comment-fic prompt: "If Kili (or Fili) had found the ring instead." Who finds the ring is deliberately left vague. Turned into a poem fill, which was fun to write.
9.
Riven throne and liquid gold
‘round dragon corpse these legends told
Armies clashing on the field
as sundered is the Oaken Shield
Desperation clouds the heart
now opened wide for darker art
Battle fever sweeps the brain
and unsuspecting brother slain
Old King’s grave and brother-bone
for Doom of Man and Arkenstone
Power lost to history
can change a loss to victory
Promises of wealth and spoil
bring Laketown Men to earthen soil
Elven king and man of Dale
see not beyond Deceiver’s veil
Allies come through masoned gate
armed well with axe and armored plate
Exiled folk returned to land
again bend low to Dwarf-king’s hand
Hammers thunder in the deep
and echo from the mountain keep
Madness festers in the mind
ambitions warped by cruel design
Darkened forge once more alight
and Durin’s line assembles might.
Middle Earth plunged into war
when forces march from Erebor
Strike of axe on lowered shield
reveals what trickery concealed
Armies from beneath the ground
their clang of steel a dreaded sound
Darkened cave and black forge smoke
now Middle Earth begins to choke
Barren rock and blackened sun
and death will come for everyone.
7.
In the dark a Halfling waits
who slipped unseen in through the gates
Carrying a sharpened Sting
and stealing back that cursed ring!
Hidden in the dragon slain
so waits the downfall of a reign
Enemy the once-called friend
who brings an age now to an end
Moment right he leaps in front
and strikes a blow with mighty grunt
Treachery of golden band
now leaves the king without a hand
Raging Dwarf is not as fast
and dripping blood he cannot last
Halfling slips through narrow gap
a passageway in ancient map
Racing up he finds the sun
Istari takes him and they run
Once thirteen now only two
all others dead but for them few
Council formed in secret place
to fight the downfall of each race
Sends a fellowship to aid
destroying ancient bane mislaid
Five companions are they now,
with swords and staff and Elven bow
Erebor to Mordor’s gate
to there determine worldly fate
3.
Dwarfs march south and orcs go north
Twin towers send their hunters forth
Wizard with a seeing stone
despairing follows future shown
Gondor’s son by arrow felled
to prophecy is other held
Ancient fire’s whipping bite
has turned the Grey into a White
Rhyming creature once more caught
divulges pathways they have sought
Ring Bearer must go alone
for dangerous the pathway shown
1.
Burden now a precious thing
he cannot toss away the ring
Halfling heart has failed the quest
and doomed the world to final rest