Winter's Drums by pandemonium_213; illustrated by <user site="l

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Title: Winter's Drums
Author Name: pandemonium_213
Prompts: Winter weather (B2MeM 2014) and thundersnow (B2MeM 2012 – yes, a tad belated)
Summary: The grisly banner having served its purpose, Sauron enlists the assistance of his soldiers and bodyguard to bear Celebrimbor's corpse to its final resting place in the foothills of the Misty Mountains while a snowstorm approaches from the southwest.
Rating: Adult
Warnings:  Descriptions of torture and a deteriorating corpse may be too intense for some readers (roughly equivalent to MPAA R-rating or TV Ratings Mature Audience V); some expletive language.  Pandë!versecentric.
Beta: Many thanks to Binky, Drummerwench, Elfscribe, Ignoble Bard, KyMahalei, Oshun, Randy O, Russandol, and Scarlet for their input.
Author's Notes: I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with huinare, who has provided two illustrations for this story.  Her style is distinctive (reminds me of Brian Froud's work), and the grey tones are eminently suitable for the bleak theme of the story.  Many thanks to Huinárë for the excellent artwork! Also see End Notes for more of my interminable bloviation.

Title: 1. "Examining His Work" / 2. "Thundersnow"
Artist Name: Huinárë (huinare)
Prompt: Winter Weather
Description: Pencil illustration / Construction paper collage
Rating: G
Warnings: Not as such, but Pandë's story itself, on the other hand...
Artist's Notes: It was a pleasure to be able to read Pandemonium's story before it went live and to natter about it with her during the process of creating these illustrations.

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"Bear It Still For Me A While" by cairistiona

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Title: Bear It Still For Me A While
Author Name: cairistiona
Prompt: Spring Landscape (photo here)
Summary: The Standard-bearer’s thoughts turn homeward as he travels to war.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Themes of war, prophecy and death (much like Tolkien’s entire legendarium), though this is not a deathfic. Tissue alert.
Beta: Many thanks to my Betas Four: Inzilbeth, Suzll, Everleigh and Estelcontar
Author's Notes:  All characters and Arda itself belong to the good Professor. I only take them out to play. Denlad, Eledh, and Galadh are my OC Rangers who often appear in my stories. Title taken from the passage:
“And Aragorn said to Halbarad, ‘What is that that you bear, kinsman?’ For he saw that instead of a spear he bore a tall staff, as it were a standard, but it was close-furled in a black cloth bound about with many thongs.” The Passing of the Grey Company, The Return of the King, JRR Tolkien. 

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A Final Adventure by Erulisse (one L)

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Title: A Final Adventure
Author Name:  Erulisse (one L)
Prompt: "'For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.'" (Galadriel, The Fellowship of the Ring, "Farewell to Lórien")  Write about a character who has reached old age.
Summary:  After the War of the Rings, the ringbearers have received permission to sail to the Undying West. Bilbo, feeling his age since the destruction of Sauron's ring begins his journey to the Grey Havens and attempts to understand the differences between his own aging and that of his hosts, the elves.
Rating:  G
Warnings:  None
Beta:  None - All errors are solely my own.
Author's Notes:  My interpretation of how elves age is solely my own but has kernels of probability.


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