Meeting the Fox by baranduin

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-fiction
Genre: Memoir
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: The fox
Pairings: None
Summary: Reading LOTR for the first time

( Meeting the Fox )

"...crying Elendil! Elendil! he crashed through the trees" by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: essay, autobiographical (c.600 words)
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Aragorn & me
Pairings: None
Summary: My first encounter with The Lord of the Rings
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The ultimate friendship

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: personal essay
Rating: Gen
Characters: me and the books
Summary: How LotR changed my life

"It all depends on what you want," put in Merry. "You can trust us to stick to you through thick and thin – to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours – closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo. Anyway, there it is. We know most of what Gandalf has told you. We know a good deal about the Ring. We are horribly afraid – but we are going with you, or following you like hounds." ( Read more... )

"See It Through" by starbrow (Amy Fortuna)

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: meta, autobiographical
Word Count: 725
Rating: General
Warnings: Discussion of depression, suicidal thoughts
Characters: Samwise Gamgee
Pairings: None
Summary: A passage in The Lord of the Rings that didn't just grab my heart - it saved my life.

( from The Choices of Master Samwise )

"Frodo was alive but taken by the Enemy." by Independence1776

[independence1776]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: Autobiographical
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Frodo, me, the books
Pairings: None
Summary: I thought Frodo would die.

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When We Were Very Young by Marta

[marta-bee.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Days #8 + #9 (middle quote)
Format: Short Story (2,098 words + Notes)
Genre: Angst, Gapfiller
Rating: Teen
Warnings: implied sexuality, domestic violence
Characters: Ar-Pharazon, Tar-Miriel, Elendil
Pairings: Tar-Miriel/Elendil
Summary: "And it came to pass that Tar-Palantir grew weary of grief and died. He had no son, but a daughter only, whom he named Míriel in the Elven-tongue; and to her now by right and the laws of the Númenóreans came the sceptre. But Pharazôn took her to wife against her will..." (The Akallabeth)

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The Stronger Sex - Linda Hoyland

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Inner vs Outer Strength

Format: 500 word FLF

Genre: family

Rating: PG

Warnings: mention of childbirth

Characters: Aragorn, Arwen, Eldarion, OFC

Pairings: none

Summary: Aragorn enlightens his son.










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"Sing a tree for me" by shadowbrides

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: autobiographical
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Me, lots of dead elves, semi-sentient music.
Pairings: Silmarillion/Me
Summary: I didn't start with the Lord of the Rings or even the Hobbit; the music in everything was what seduced me, and the sadness.

Unlike saner people, I picked up the Silmarillion first.( I tried to play a tree into being )

Growing up in Middle-earth

[morganlyfe.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Wildcard (Athelas)
Format: Non-Fiction
Genre: personal essay, autobiographical
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Me, Frodo, Bilbo
Pairings: None
Summary: My childhood in a family of Tolkien admirers

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B2MeM 2013: Day Eleven

[dawn_felagund]

Below are three prompts, one from each of the three major eras of Arda’s history. To participate, choose one that sounds interesting, locate the quote in the books (that’s the scavenger hunt bit!), read the surrounding passage or chapter, and create your piece based on that.

Your piece does not need to be based on the scene from the quote. While this is certainly one approach, you could also write about a character, location, or theme found in the scene. Remember, there’s no prompt police, and we encourage creative use of the prompts!

	“The love of Lúthien had fallen upon him in the first hour of their meeting; and he grieved at her captivity. Therefore he came often to her chamber; and at night he lay before her door, for he felt that evil had come to Nargothrond.”
	“For in the days of the sojourn of Sauron in that land the hearts of well nigh all its people had been turned towards darkness. Therefore many of those who sailed east in that time and made fortresses and dwellings upon the coasts were already bent to his will, and they served him still gladly in Middle-earth. But because of the power of Gil-galad these renegades, lords both mighty and evil, for the most part took up their abodes in the southlands far away; yet two there were, Herumor and Fuinur, who rose to power among the Haradrim, a great and cruel people that dwelt in the wide lands south of Mordor beyond the mouths of Anduin.”
	"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

( Day Eleven Icons )

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I will give you a name by Alasse

[alasse-mirimiel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Names (day 1)
Format: Sketch
Genre: Gen
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Bilbo
Pairings: None
Summary: Bilbo naming his sword

( link to my LJ )