The Outsider

He passed like a shadow through the Shire;  isolated, cut off from the companionable talk and drinking of inns like the Green Dragon.   The hobbits were wary, for he was one of the big folk, while the Bree-folk mistrusted him as ‘one of them Rangers’. 

He did not belong in the Shire or out of it, and he sometimes feared that he no longer belonged in Imladris either.  Estranged from Elrond, and with Arwen gone once more, his only ties there were with his brothers – and they were seldom home.

He feared he was an outsider in his own home.

Author Notes:  For the 'Outside' challenge on Tolkien Weekly.