Advent Calendar 2009 - 19: The Tower
Dec. 19th, 2009 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwenThere are a couple of possibilities for today's prompt; I chose the less obvious one:
BOOM!
All of Minas Tirith shook this time, and watchers on the walls scrambled down to bring word of the terrible device that had been brought into play. This was no ordinary ram, powered by men or orcs; this one was huge, suspended from a frame and requiring cave trolls to move.
BOOM!
Any hope of outlasting the siege was just about gone. An hour of this horrific pounding, and already the massive crossbeams of the great gate were giving.
BOOM!
Beyond the gates, the armies roared as the gates gave again. They would not hold much longer.
BOOM!
CRASH!
BOOM!
All of Minas Tirith shook this time, and watchers on the walls scrambled down to bring word of the terrible device that had been brought into play. This was no ordinary ram, powered by men or orcs; this one was huge, suspended from a frame and requiring cave trolls to move.
BOOM!
Any hope of outlasting the siege was just about gone. An hour of this horrific pounding, and already the massive crossbeams of the great gate were giving.
BOOM!
Beyond the gates, the armies roared as the gates gave again. They would not hold much longer.
BOOM!
CRASH!
