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Old 05-15-2003, 05:31 PM   #53
Mattius
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"I share an interesting story from a millenia ago but it is a far too long one to tell now I am afriad!" Laughed Mattius as he looked at Radagast, Calentoiel and Endereth. "But in my extremly early years I was adopted and raised as one of the men in Minas Tirith, at the time of the War with Sauron. Since the episode with the Beast of Fear some one thousand years ago in the Blue Mountains I have spent my life in travel, sometimes with old Radagast here to a whole variety of places- and now here I am."

Kalir looked on in wonder at the elf's long life and story of travel to distant lands. Mattius walked over to him and sat by.

"But I envy you," he whispered to the farmer, "a simple life is what I desire, yet I fear it is not my fate."

Kalir cracked a smile and Mattius returned it likewise and patted him on the back.

"I should think if you were a farmer you would grow tired of it after a thousand years Mattius!" He said.

"Aye perhaps I would Kalir but a thousand years of travel has led me to the same conclusion as old Bilbo Baggins himself- it is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life!"

"Wise words from the merry hobbit folk," added LinGalad half thinking to himself.

It was now late night and as the moon watched the city of Isengard, The Salty Tear remained open, due to the generousity of its guests. Outside walked Avery and high above all loomed Orthanc, darker than the black sky. The Council was comming to an end and people began walking home, avoiding to look in the direction of the trees. The trees; in the night they looked most threatening of all, a sea of twisted wood and branches. The Council itself had achieved nothing, only poured fuel on the fire of suspicion and fear. The real decisions and actions would come from a group of men, women and immortals drinking in one of the many inns of Isengard.
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