The Artisan's Daughter, by Elleth

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge:
N32: Last Lines: And realized that was all she ever really wanted.
O64: All OCs, All the Time: An Artisan; AU Card: Identify a crossroads in the life of a character you like writing about - write a story in which s/he goes the other route.; Book Titles: The importance of being earnest; Here We Come A-Caroling: If the Fates Allow; Colours: Brown
Format: Drabble Series
Genre: General, Romance, some Angst
Rating: Teens
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Cemnarë (OFC mother of Nerdanel), Nerdanel, Fëanor
Pairings: Cemnarë/Mahtan, Nerdanel/Fëanor
Summary: A change of heart, a change of history.

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O-62: "Bachelorette Party" by just_ann_now

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge O-62: "Textures": Glassy; "Original Characters": A Twin
Format: Ficlet (500 words)
Genre: Mostly Gen
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Éowyn, Lothíriel, Original Characters
Pairings:N/A
Summary: A few moments of pre-wedding silliness; perhaps a celebration of normalcy in Rohan
Author's Note: The original characters here, Prince Théodred's daughters Blídhe and Fridhu, were created by edoraslass, and are used with her kind permission. They made their first appearance as adorable two-year-old scene stealers here.

Bachelorette Party

Notes for A Winter’s Tale (Not Meant for Children) - Zeen (O62)

[moetushie]

B2MeM Challenge: O62 - Genre: Mystery, Snippets of Verse: Art’s hid causes are not found
Format: Free verse poetry - 255 words
Genre:Mystery/Horror
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Implied character death. Also, poetry.
Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Maedhros, the woods of Doriath, and Maglor.
Pairings: None.
Title: Notes for A Winter’s Tale (Not Meant for Children)
Summary: What happens to little princes, lost in the dark woods?


Link goes to my journal.

A Cat's Tail - Linda Hoyland

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge The Steward and his Sons- Emyn Arnen; Emotions- horror; I All Ocs, all the time - an artisan; Book Titles - The Importance of Being Earnest;Landscape - sand dunes;Talents and skills- baking; Beasts - snake; Last Lines- And the party got started.Here we come a carolling - If the fates allow.
Format: short story

Genre: general, family, humour

Rating: PG

Warnings: none

Characters: Faramir, Eowyn, OMC, OFCs
Pairings: Faramir/Eowyn


Summary: Faramir must prove himself as tamer of man and beast..

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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Daylight Savings Time Reminder | Error on Colors Card | Sixth Place Winners

[dawn_felagund]

Daylight Savings Time Reminder
Today, many countries in Europe switch to daylight savings time, including the United Kingdom. arwen75 was kind enough to point out to me when the U.S. and Canada switched to daylight savings time a few weeks back that GMT remains the same, even when the UK switches to daylight savings time. (Numbers are posted and closed based on GMT, which is apparently different from BST, a fact I wasn't aware of! :) Therefore, unless your country switched to daylight savings time today, the time numbers will be posted and closed will not change for you. If your country did switch to daylight savings time today, the numbers will be posted and closed one hour later.

Error on Colors Card
paranoidangel42 caught a pretty significant error on the numbering of the Colors card. The last column should be O's, not G's. Therefore, the last column of prompts should be:

O61: Blue
O64: Brown
O69: Fuchsia
O73: Bright Green
O75: Copper

Yes, this includes one of today's prompts (for O64), so if you're playing that card and want to claim that stamp, make sure you work that prompt into your story before the number closes today.

Sixth-Place Winners!
And the winners list continues to grow! For O62, congratulations to Jay of Lasgalen, Febobe, CrackinAndProudOfIt, Naurring, Linda Hoyland, Elleth, Cairistiona, IgnobleBard, Alma Heart, Lady Brooke, and havamahal who earned a BINGO on the Injuries and Other Ailments card! CrackinAndProudOfIt also earned a second BINGO on the Let's Get Meta card, and Embi earned a BINGO on the Maglor in History 1 card! Finally, Lady Brooke earned a second BINGO on the Riddle Me Writerly Card. Wow, what a day!

If you've won on a particular number, I will send your banner after the number closes. If you won on a number that's closed, you should have gotten your banner yesterday. If you did not, please let me know.

N-32 - Erulisse - Misadventures in the Forge

[engarian.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: N-32 – Fëanantics – Fëanor wasn’t nuts, he was just misunderstood
Format: Drabble
Genre: Humor
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Fëanor
Pairings: None
Word Count: 100

Summary: A quick order while walking through the forge leads to the dismantling of an important piece of equipment.


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N-32 - Erulisse - Striding With The Lion

[engarian.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: N-32 – Maglor in History – The Harlem Renaissance
Format: Short Story
Genre: Drama
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor
Pairings: None
Word Count: 1280

Summary: Maglor, working as an ambulance driver along the Western Front in WWI comes across one of the great early jazz musicians in the hospital and they form a friendship. After the war, Maglor comes to New York City’s district of Harlem to find his friend.

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Erendis to Aldarion, by Zdenka

[zdenka]

B2MeM Challenge: O64. Book Title: The importance of being earnest; Poetic Forms: Sapphic
Format: poetry
Genre: romance?
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Characters: Erendis, Aldarion (implied)
Pairings: Aldarion/Erendis
Summary: Erendis has doubts over Aldarion’s courtship.

I've been laboring over this and I'm still not satisfied, so I reserve the right to edit it later. :-)

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Tookish Tradition by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Challenge: N-32, Art Supplies, pastels; Hobbits, The Tooks (won't count for Bingo; too late)
Format: Frame story; Ficlet
Title: Tookish Tradition
Genre: Story
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Pippin, OFC (his oldest daughter, Primrose)
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: This has been part of my headcanon for years, that Great Smials Tooks say 'mother' and 'father' instead of using diminuitives for their parents; at last I have the chance to explain the story behind it.
Summary: Pippin explains a Tookish custom to his daughter.

Tookish Tradition
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Ode to Potatoes by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Challenge: O-62, Crossover2, Poetry; Food, Potato; Shirish, Solmath
Format: Poetry
Title: Ode to Potatoes
Genre: Poetry, Parody
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Sam Gamgee
Pairings: N/A
Author's Note: I've tried poems in Ogden Nash's style in the past—but this particular grouping of prompts woke up my Ogden Nash muse again. One of the hallmarks of Nash's humorous style are lines which are very mismatched in length and scansion. Also you will notice a famous line from movie-verse in this one.
Summary: Another poem in the style of Ogden Nash.

Ode to Potatoes
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O62 - Because I could not stop for death

[altariel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: March 3019 TA: March 5th The Dúnedain ride through Rohan
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Halbarad
Pairings: N/A
Summary: There is no time.
Author's Note: For dwimordene_2011, the Master, I offer an essay in your craft.

( Because I could not stop for death )

Fic: About Men 5/6

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Card: Powers of the World, O64: Oromë meets the Beornings
Format:Triple drabble
Genre: Not a comedy.
Rating: Teens
Warnings: None
Characters: Manwë, Makar, Oromë, Vana, Tulkas
Pairings: None
Summary:Oromë remembers how he met the Beornings

http://tati24.livejournal.com/281748.html

The BINGO Number for March 26 Is N36--CLOSED

[dawn_felagund]

This post is now closed. We are no longer accepting further requests for stamps on N36.

I am back later than expected from a family event, so the number is once again late by 2 hours. As such, this post will also close 2 hours later than usual, no earlier than 2 AM GMT on March 28.



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