Title: The Voice of Doom
Rating: G

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The Ring had been his fate and its silent whisperings had been the voices of his doom – or so he had thought.

Whispers had been his constant companions since the beginning of the journey, and at the end they had become unbearably loud, reaching him even in the darkness of his dreams. He loathed the voices in his head, the voices of the Ring, but they were his doom.

He had thought they would never end their seductive calls and yet, here upon a hill in the midst of ruin, death and fire the voices had ceased to be. There was nothing but silence for him in the end – nothing but the peace he had longed for. Not even the rumblings and moans of the shaking earth beneath him met his ears as he fell, his maimed hand still resting in the hand of his dearest friend.

There was nothing but silence – the voice of doom.