Twists of Fortune - Linda Hoyland

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge Roles and names of Aragorn1- Telcontar; Emotions- pain; Injuries and other ailments - Twisted ankle.  Song lyrics - I saw all the bright people in imposing flocks they landed; All Ocs, all the time - a shade; Book Titles - Fragile Things; Rangers of the North- The Grey Company.

Format: short story

Genre: angst, hurt comfort

Rating: PG13

Warnings: mention of battle and character death

Characters: Aragorn, OMC, Ioreth

Pairings: none

Summary: Gilavir reflects on the Grey Company's adventures.

These characters all belong to the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien. This story was written for pleasure and not for financial gain.

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Lotus - Linda Hoyland

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge - Botany - Lotus

Format: drabble

Genre: General
Rating: G

Warnings: none

Characters: Eowyn, OFC

Pairings: none

Summary: Lady Adiva shows Eowyn some strange flowers

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Reasons, by Starlight

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: b4 Gondorian History: Founding; Rangers of the North: b14 The Grey Company, 064 Protectors
Format: Drabble
Genre: Drama
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: OC from the Grey Company
Pairings: None
Summary: Gondor never aided them, but now they were aiding Gondor.

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Preparation, by Starlight (Éomer)

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: b4 Forth Eorlingas: Horse breeder
Format: Double Drabble
Genre: Character exploration
Rating: K+
Warnings: None
Characters: Éomer
Pairings: None
Summary: Keeping the peace is a hard job.

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Challenge O-64 Four Word Drabble Bingo Card

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: O-64 Four Words Drabble, Words to use:  Classify, New, Infidelity, Mesmerize
Format: drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: Not a one
Characters: Faramir
Title: None at the moment
Pairings: Implied Faramir and Eowyn


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Unlikely, by Elleth

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
B14: AU Card: The Dragon has fallen - Dís leads her people to Erebor
Format: Drabble
Genre: Friendship, AU
Rating: Teens
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Dís, Arwen
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Dís, now the leader of her people on the way to Erebor, rests in Rivendell.

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I-27 Murmurs of Encouragement - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: I-27, Shirish Card: Astron
Format: Short Story
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Rating: Gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Gandalf, Merry, Pippin, Frodo, Sam, Erchirion of Dol Amroth, Rosie, Marigold
Pairings: Sam/Rosie Cotton
Summary: It is the sixth of Astron, and Sam's birthday. Will he grant the guests at his birthday feast the one gift they all crave?

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O64 - "The Enchantress" by just_ann_now

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: O-64; Original Characters - Artisan; Textures: Patterned
Format: Ficlet, 350 words
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: OC's
Title: The Enchantress

The Enchantress

What Ivrin Saw, by Elleth

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
N38: Waters: Pond
Format: Drabble Series
Genre: General, Myth
Rating: Gen
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Eithel Ivrin
Pairings: N/A
Summary: What Ivrin saw in Beleriand.

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Little Rituals, by Starlight

[starli-ght.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: n32 Forth Eorlingas: Dunharrow; March 3019: Destruction of Isengard
Format: Drabble
Genre: Romance/Drama
Rating: K+
Warnings: None
Characters: Dúnhere, FOC
Pairings: Dúnhere/his OC wife
Summary: Little rituals before leaving home

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Congratulations to Our Next Rounds of Winners!

[dawn_felagund]

Players have been earning BINGOs left and right for the past few days, but it's been One of Those Weeks for me, and I haven't had a chance to make a proper post acknowledging and congratulating them! I've also not had a chance to get the winners' banners sent out, but I hope to remedy that today as well. :)

Please remember that we are playing until the end of March; just because folks are winning BINGO does not mean that the game stops or that future winners won't get banners. We've got one week left, so let's keep those muses hopping!

If you've won a BINGO and I've not listed you here, please let me know so that I can add you and send you your banner!

Second Place: Congratulations to Idle Leaves, Sivan Shemesh, Zhie, Arwen75, Dwim, havamahal, Febobe, and Gwenniel, who won on B4! (Winning cards were Aspects of Aragorn and Favorite Couples.)

Third Place: Congratulations to Silver Trails, Keiliss, Erulisse, Lyra, Iavalir, and Lady Brooke, who won on B14! (Winning card was Maglor in History 1.)

(Also, Rhapsody had a "secret BINGO" for this number. As the keepers of the BINGO numbers, Rhapsy and I removed ourselves from being able to win. However, I want to give her a shout-out anyway because I do not know how she does all that she does and still finds time for enough writing to win a BINGO! :)

Fourth Place: Congratulations to Zhie, Naurring, Foxrafer, Erulisse, and Lady Brooke, who won on N32! (Winning card was Art Supplies.)

Fifth Place: Congratulations to Lyra, Elleth, lbilover, Linda Hoyland, Zdenka, and Lady Brooke who won on O64! (Winning cards were Crossovers 1, The Alternate Universe Card [AU1], and Book Titles.) This number is still open, so I hope to be adding to this list as the day goes on! :)

Fic: About Dwarves

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Card: Powers of the World
B14: Nienna: Aulë and the Dwarves from Belegost and Nogrod
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Not a comedy.
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Nienna, Aulë, Yavanna
Pairings: Aulë/Yavanna
Summary: Nienna joins Aulë and Yavanna and together they watch the Dwarves and their cities

http://tati24.livejournal.com/281100.html

Shieldmaidens, by Aliana

[aliana1.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: N32: Women of different cultures (Femslash)
O64: Identify a crossroads in the life of a character you like writing about - write a story in which s/he goes the other route (AU); The Importance of Being Earnest (Book Titles)
Format: Drabble sequence
Genre: AU
Rating: General
Warnings: Death
Characters: Éowyn
Pairings: Implied Éowyn/OFC
Summary: Three things that never happened to Éowyn.

Link goes to my journal.

The Writhen Pool

[pandemonium-213.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: O72, Occupations, cook; B10: Colors, sky-blue; B10/I22: Botany, rowan, barley; I21/N31/O65 Tolkien's Trees, oak, pine, and chestnut; I18, Artifacts and Weapons, palantír; I22, Colors, lavender.
Format: Novella; currently 2 chapters out of potentially 8 or thereabouts.
Genre: General, i.e., drama leavened with humo(u)r mixed with scientifiction (hopefully not ham-handed)
Rating: Adult (soft-R at most; erring on the side of caution)
Warnings: Expletive Language, Mature Themes, Sexual Content--Moderate; Alternative History (familiarity of the Pandë!verse helpful, not strictly necessary); OFC-centric.
Characters: Celeborn, Celebrimbor, Dwarves, Elrond, Erestor, Galadriel, Glorfindel, Original Characters, Sauron (characters in italics will appear in forthcoming chapters).
Pairings: A nice Chianti with fava beans. In other words, I don't go in for classification of my ficcery by "pairings."
Summary: When the Istyari of Second Age Ost-in-Edhil deny a young master smith a place in an important — and guarded — new initiative to be taken up by the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, she struggles to make her mark in the man's realm of the forges. An opportunity arrives when the smith is offered a commission that will present challenges of both the mind and heart.

Link to the story on the Silmarillion Writers' Guild

And just for fun, here's a relevant to the story (yes, relevant!) selection (one of my favorites) from The Symphony of Science. Hint: "Featuring Morgan Freeman, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Richard Feynman, and Frank Close." ;^)

O64 - The Faithful

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Off the Map’s Edge: The Variags of Khand
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: A Variag of Khand
Pairings: N/A
Summary: There are some among us who believe that we came out of the North.

( The Faithful )

Burning Bright - Zeen (B14)

[moetushie]

B2MeM Challenge: B14 - Sons of Fëanor: The twins not as best friends, Book Titles: Fragile Things. (And additional prompts.)
Format: A set of drabbles
Genre: Angst/Drama
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Death, wanton destruction, rebellion, more death. Yay Fëanorians!
Characters: Amrod & Amras, and other sons of Fëanor, and the great man himself.
Pairings: None.
Title: Burning Bright
Summary: The twins at Losgar: how they got there, and what they were left with.

Posted in my journal.

The BINGO Number for March 25 Is O62--CLOSED

[dawn_felagund]

This post is now closed. We are not accepting any further requests for O62.



Once you make a significant start on a prompt or prompts for today's number, please leave a comment on this post. Include your author name (if your LJ handle is different from the name listed for you on the B2MeM site) and the names of any cards for which you've completed prompts. If you've publicly posted a piece and would like to share a link so that others may enjoy your work, please feel free to do so.

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Fic: My Life 18/25

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Card: Maglor in History, N32: The Harlem Renaissance
Format:Triple drabble
Genre: Not a comedy.
Rating: Teens
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor, Daeron, mention of Omar
Pairings: None
Summary:Maglor is interested in music once again

http://tati24.livejournal.com/281580.html

O64 - One Plus One

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Poetic Forms: Sapphic; Scientific achievement: Arithmetics
Format: Poem
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Amrothos and Akilah (OFC)
Pairings: Amrothos/Akilah
Summary: 1 + 1 = ?

( One plus one )

O-62: Review of "The Annals of Angmar" by Aliana

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: O-62: Review a story that you've read but not yet reviewed
Genre: Review
Warnings: Aliana's warnings for the story: "Violence, but no more intense than what Tolkien wrote. Mature themes, rather more intense than he probably would have preferred.
Summary: A review of "The Annals of Angmar" by aliana1
Aliana's Summary of "The Annals of Angmar": “High, she was, and fair": A love story, and an exercise in revisionist history.
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B2MeM 2012: O - 62 (Review)

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 'Read Before But Never Reviewed' on the “Review” BINGO card
Format: Review
Genre: Short story
Rating: PG
Warnings: This review contains spoilers.
Characters: N/A
Pairings: N/A
Summary: This is a review of the short story: "The Greatest Vanyarin Invention" by Darth Fingon. (This is the first chapter in the collection: "Stupid Stories For Irreverent Elves" and can be read as a stand-alone.)The link can be found here: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/viewstory.php?sid=876&chapter=1
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Lying in Wait (N32)

[arwen75]

B2MeM Challenge Beasty:Spider (N32)
Format: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings:  None
Summary: Thoughts while waiting
Authors Notes:  I got hit over the head by this yesterday but having written it but not checked it and got it to drabble length.

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Protecting the Innocent (O64)

[arwen75]

B2MeM Challenge Beasty:Snake & Rangers of the North:Protectors (O64)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: General
Rating: G
Warnings:  None
Summary: An encounter in the Shire
Authors Notes:  This is not my best work by any means. I just had the idea in my head but the muse refused to cooperate fully in putting it down. We shall see if she does better in the next few days as I may try to revise this as one of the prompts feels really forced. EDIT: RE-written it to a point and I am feeling a little happier about the story and its flow. Still not brilliant but at least it reads a bit better.

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Hope Is a Waking Dream by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Challenge: O-64, Crossover1 (with one of Tolkien's other books); Hobbits, "The Lockholes"
Format: Ficlet
Title: Hope Is a Waking Dream
Genre: Crossover
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Fatty Bolger, Lórien, the Man-in-the-Moon
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: This is a crossover, LotR with Roverandom and The Silmarillion. I like to think that one way in which the Powers could help the peoples of Middle-earth was through the gift of rest and hope. And as for the Man-in-the-Moon, his realm (in my mind) encompasses and exceeds Arda, though his charges are any children who can see the Moon from whatever universe they dwell. It seemed possible to me that he might collaborate with Lórien to provide a respite for a weary prisoner. The title is a quote from Aristotle.
Summary: In dreams may sometimes come rest and surcease from sorrow...

Hope Is a Waking Dream
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Breaking Free - Linda Hoyland

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge- Beasts -spider; Waters - rain; Last Lines -And realised that was all she ever really wanted.;Landscape-plain;weather- calm;Colours -grey;Talents and skills - archery;Here we come a carolling - He sees you while you're sleeping.

Format: 500 word FLF

Genre: angst.family

Rating: PG13

Warnings: adult themes

Characters: Faramir. Eowyn, Grima

Pairings: Faramir/Eowyn

Summary: Eowyn is haunted by the past.

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