Title: Leaf and Stone
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Author: Zdenka
Rating: G
Challenge: #57, song titles: Bruce Springsteen ("My City of Ruins")
Characters and Ships: Gimli, hinted pre-relationship Gimli/Legolas
Warnings: none
Word Count: 758
Notes: Also written for fffc Winter Calendar for the prompt "ruined decorations". / Elrond rescued and took in the survivors of Eregion on his way to establish what would become Rivendell (according to the LOTR appendices and Unfinished Tales). I like the idea that some craftspeople from the Gwaith-i-Mírdain were trusted friends in Khazad-dûm and could have worked with their Dwarvish colleagues on some of the decorations there . . . and then maybe a few of the same artists, or those trained by them, survived to bring their style to Rivendell.

Summary: Gimli notices something that surprises him in the carvings of Khazad-dûm.

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