Voices in the Mist - Linda Hoyland

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Title: Voices in the Mist

Author Name: Linda Hoyland

Prompt. Morning Landscape with Trees - Grubicy de Dragon


Summary: Halbarad and Aragorn have an adventure in the Old forest.

Rating: PG

Warnings: very mild horror

Beta: (optional)

Author's Notes: Short story with grateful thanks to Shirebound, Curious Wombat and Elanbarati for help with the plot.

Disclaimer: The characters are the property of the Tolkien Estate. No profit has been, nor will be made from this story.


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B2MeM 2014 Weekly Roundup: March 10-16

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Welcome to the Week 2 roundup post! This week has seen an excellent variety of responses to our autumnal prompts, as well as several non-compilation works, from Ainur to Fëanorians to Hobbits and Dúnedain. Winter is coming to Middle-earth this next week; before it does, do have a look at the current week’s creations! Please note that some works may contain adult material; these have been marked with an asterisk*.

This Week’s Stories and Artwork

Compilation

Burdens of the Wise, by suzll/Suzelle.

Coming Together, by helenllama.

Dying on the Vine, by ilye_elf.

East Away, by ladyelleth.

Fair Game*, by ljusastjarnan.

Not By Chance, by lin4gondor/Linaewen.

Patience, by lin4gondor/Linaewen.

Prayers about Rain*, by dawn_felagund.

Sunrise, by raise_the_knife.

Teacher’s Pet*, by tanis2014.

Three attempts to remake the Elessar, by elliska.

Webs of Memory, by aearwen2.

Non-compilation

Maglor Tunes a Guitar, by hhimring.

Release, by lindahoyland.

Terms of Endearment, by suzll/Suzelle.

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Review Challenge Spotlight

This week’s featured review challenge is:

Review a piece that demonstrated excellent characterization!


See the review challenge guidelines for a full list of challenges and stamps.

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Saw a piece of art you loved? Read a fic you’re still thinking about? Share your recommendations in the comments section of this post!

Instead of a Dark Lord You Would Have a Queen, or, Baby Aragorn Totally Had a Cat Phase

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Title: Instead of a Dark Lord You Would Have a Queen, or, Baby Aragorn Totally Had a Cat Phase
Author Name: zopyrus
Prompt: In many parts of the world, autumn brings the start of the school year. Write about a character's education.
Summary: When the child Aragorn asks to learn more about the folkloric Tevildo, Prince of Cats, Elrond can’t help him much. But there are other famous cats in the histories of Middle-earth…
Rating: General
Author's Notes: Thank you to Suzelle for the beta, and for inspiring this story, which is a sequel to her hilarious fic Prince of Cats.

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A Sad Tale’s Best for Winter

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Title: A Sad Tale's Best for Winter
Author Name: heartofoshun (Oshun)
Prompt: Write a story or create art about the midwinter holiday (Yule or another midwinter holiday of your choosing).
Summary: Elrond looks back on Yuletides past at two distinct periods in his life, nearly an Age and a half apart. “The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.” (In Portugal, by AFG Bell, 1912.)
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None.
Beta: The extraordinarily patient ignoblebard must have read this five or six times. (I cannot thank pandemonium_213, nelyo_russandol, drummerwench,  and scarlet1061 enough for reading and offering corrections and suggestions). Any remaining mistakes or poor judgment calls are my own.
Author's Notes: I want to thank dawn_felagund for the beautiful calligraphy and illumination which she created for this story.

Artwork
Titles: (three works) Pine Cones, Betrayed, and Kissed for "A Sad Tale's Best for Winter"
Artist Name: Dawn Felagund
Description: Calligraphy and illumination of brief passages from the story. The calligraphy utilizes a script I developed based on Tolkien's own writing in the Tengwar of "Namárië" and "A Elbereth Gilthoniel." The illumination is based on a style used in the 15th-century Bible of Borso d'Este. Ink, acrylic, and gold leaf on Bristol vellum.
Rating: General
Warnings: None.

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This Far Distant Shore, by Elleth

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Title: This Far Distant Shore
Artist Name: Elleth
Prompt: Exile - Enya (Lyrics)
Description: Gilmith, daughter of Mithrellas the Silvan Elf and Imrazôr the Númenorean, laments her lack of choice.
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Artist's Notes: [Mithrellas] was one of the companions of Nimrodel, among many of the Elves that fled to the coast about the year 1980 of the Third Age, when evil arose in Moria; and Nimrodel and her maidens stayed in the wooded hills, and were lost. But in this tale it is said that Imrazôr harboured Mithrellas, and took her to wife. But when she had borne him a son, Galador, and a daughter, Gilmith, she slipped away by night and he saw her no more. (Unfinished Tales, Of Amroth and Nimrodel)

Stock credits and a full-size version of the picture can be found here.

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