From the Shores of Cuiviénen by Oshun

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B2MeM Challenge: The Dark Rider’s Horses and Other Creatures (Other Silmarillion-based locations) I want an Origins story -- characters optional--but I like to think of Beleg . . . Anything dated from the shores of Cuiviénen to the early days of the march across the mountains to the sea. . .
Format: photomanip
Genre: history
Rating: general
Warnings: no warnings apply
Characters: Círdan, and the earliest mariners among the Quendi.
Pairings: none (Círdan's love of the sea?}
Summary: I wrote the original prompt and bought it also, but decided to take my idea of Origins and apply it to Círdan's earliest days and claim to fame. Enjoy!

Source is screen cap from opening credits from season 3, Vikings, The History Channel, actually mostly my head and looked at a picture from the Viking Ship Museum; used a mouse and Gimp photo-editing program. T
( large version --still a WIP )

Rumor Has It by Zhie

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B2MeM Challenge: Erestor and Glorfindel - Each other’s nemesis -- There are so many stories written where Erestor & Glorfindel are either friends, lovers or just get along nicely. How about a story where they do not like each other at all, and what would be the reason for it?

Format: Short Story

Genre: Some humor, some drama, some balrog

Rating: PG13

Warnings: Language alert - here there be f-bombs, but the general content isn’t adult

Characters: Erestor, Lindir, Celebrian (mentions of Elrond and you-know-who)

Pairings: talk of Celebrian/Elrond; Erestor would like it to have Erestor/Haldir, but that’s not going to happen

Creators' Notes (optional): I might have twisted a few unknowns about to make this work.  No regrets.  I think this might be part one of a series of six (titled something like, five times Erestor hated Glorfindel, and one time he tolerated him, sort of) {this is also not betaed, nor edited, so I have fingers crossed for no plot holes}

Summary: Erestor hates Glorfindel.

( “Kinslayers are always up for debate,” bristled Erestor. )

Ghosts, by Suzelle

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B2MeM Challenge: "Any kind of fanwork - story, art, craft - show us or tell us about a book/scroll/manuscript from Elrond’s library. Title, description, summary, cover, binding, endpapers, the art of book-binding, illumination or anything related, or a story about one particular book, be it its creation, history, content, or just playing a major role in any kind of story. It doesn’t have to be a complete work/book either. Anything goes here, provided it centers around anything that has to do with the Library of Rivendell." - the_winterwitch

Format: short story

Genre: general, drama

Rating: General

Warnings: discussion of death

Characters: Aragorn, Elladan, Elrohir, female OC

Summary: Following the Council of Elrond, Aragorn seeks solace in the Library of Imladris, and encounters an old friend of his mother's.

Creator's Notes: Many thanks to zopyrus for beta'ing the first draft of this many moons ago. This has been sitting unpublished for a long time, and I'm grateful for the prompt urging me to finally polish it up. Merineth the Archivist appears in a more extended series of mine here, but it's not at all necessary to have read those first for this.

( “Well, you did not come here to relay news to a simple archivist. What is it you need, Estel?” )

The Master and the Gardener's Apprentice by Dreamflower

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B2MeM Challenge: From this prompt by Grey Wonderer: Saradoc,young Sam,'What does the Master of Buckland do?
While Saradoc Brandybuck is either picking up or dropping off Merry at Bag End, Saradoc tries to explain the job of the Master of Buckland to a young, curious, Samwise Gamgee. Other characters welcome, the other Gamgee kids, Frodo listening in, Bilbo, the Gaffer, whatever you like.
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Fluff, Friendship
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Saradoc Brandybuck, Merry Brandybuck, Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)
Pairings: n/a
Creators' Notes (optional): This story draws a lot on the fanon of my particular Shire-universe, in which Merry makes an annual long visit to Bag End every spring, and becomes good friends with Sam. Sam is about 11 in this story, which would make him about the physical equivalent of a Man-child of about 7, though he is more intellectually mature.
Summary: Saradoc Brandybuck has an interesting conversation with young Samwise.



The Master and the Gardener's Apprentice

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The unofficial B2MeM "support" community

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I currently moderate b2memsupport (in addition to being one of the moderators here), a community originally created by participants during the Bingo madness of 2012 as an unofficial space for participants to chat, vent, squee, etc.

Things you can do on b2memsupport:
- Make posts about how March is going for you; happy, silly, ranty, it's all good. The more the merrier.
- Connect with other participants by offering beta services, seeking a beta, seeing if anyone wants to collaborate on a project, etc.
- Check out the daily prompt updates which zhie has been compiling and posting. People not interested in following the community may still benefit from these updates, as Zhie's intrepid project saves on the rest of us having to check each stall individually for new prompts.
- Possibly other uses as yet unforeseen. It's rather open-ended.

What b2memsupport is not:
- Not officially endorsed by B2MeM moderation (although we encourage its use as an auxiliary social space).
- Not a tech support or B2MeM FAQ--that is to say, it does not exist to address questions about B2MeM policy or technical diffculties with the b2mem LJ community.

I hope everyone is having a fun and productive March so far!