Drabble: Worship

Title: Worship
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: The Temple of Melkor
Summary: Sauron builds a temple to his master. Or does he?

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Sauron built the Temple of Melkor and he taught men to worship and then he damned them all. He bade them sacrifice men on the altar, to kill their own kind in a show of devotion to Melkor, his master.

He smiled to himself. What they didn’t seem to understand was that Melkor wasn’t coming back and it was he, Sauron, who was the lord of darkness now and when they bowed before the bloodied altar to the fallen Vala, they really worshipped him instead.

He was the powerful new god of all evil. He stood to greet his followers.

Drabble: Unmaking the Ring

Title: Unmaking the Ring
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: Gollum
Summary: Gollum burns in the fires of Mount Doom.

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UNMAKING THE RING

At that last moment before his thin, gnarled body hit the swirling lava in Mount Doom, Gollum saw his entire life with perfect clarity. Smeagol and Deagol, brothers, friends, inseparable until that day, his birthday when he heard it call to him. The Ring, all shiny and gold and inviting. He took it!

His grandmother cast him out. No one he’d ever known would speak to him or even look at him. He had done the unthinkable, killed his own brother. He left all he had known, moved into the mountain where it was cold and dark.

He hadn’t cared for long. The Ring was all he needed, all he wanted. It loved him, his precious loved him. It called to him from afar when the dirty hobbit took it away and now he had it back. It was his once again! No one would ever take it away from him again! No one!

At the very last second, when he could feel the searing heat from below, he knew that he would soon be free. Free from pain, sorrow, hunger… free from the Ring.

At last!

He welcomed the flames as they engulfed him and burned the Ring away.