Atop Aewellond's Tower by Kaylee Arafinwiel

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B2MeM Challenge: How does the sea effect the various peoples of M-e? We know the Elves hear the cry of the gulls, but how might other races react to the sea too? Do they feel longing, revulsion, or simply like being beside it?

Photo my own. (Linda Hoyland)


Format: Ficlet

Genre: Family, Humor, a bit of angst, too

Rating: PG

Warnings: Er...a certain seagull insisted on being included in at least one story.

Characters: Elwing, Lady Uinen, OC (seagull)

Pairings: Earendil/Elwing

Creators' Notes (optional): "Aewellond" or Bird-haven is the non-canonical name of Earendil and Elwing's dwelling in Aman, name borrowed from my Atto Fiondil's Elf, Interrupted 'verse.

Donut: MINE!

*bats Donut away from Notes* No. Mine, Donut. Silly seagull...

Summary: While looking eastward and missing her children, Elwing is brought important news, and makes a new friend.



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"Now The Earth Has Stopped Her Tongue" by Amy Fortuna

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B2MeM Challenge: Several prompts went into this one!
Rivendell: a book in the library of Imladris.
Multi-Age: idioms in languages/translations between languages.
Multi-Age: Galadriel as a mother.
Format: Short story - 3300 words.
Genre: Gapfiller, tragedy, family
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Discussion of rape and other disturbing content.
Characters: Celebrian, Elrond, Galadriel, Idril, Aredhel, Maeglin, Eol, Turgon
Pairings: hints of Celebrian/Elrond. Referenced Fingon/Maedhros and Tuor/Idril. Discussion of the relationships between Aredhel & Eol, and Idril & Maeglin.
Creators' Notes (optional): This was also inspired by (and the title is from) the Oysterband song "Oxford Girl", in which a young woman is killed by the man who abused her. I've quoted some of the lyrics underneath the cut.
Summary: On her first visit to newly-built Imladris and its library, Celebrian discovers the disturbing truth behind a very old story.

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Of Cats and Kings - Linda Hoyland

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BTME Challenge;Picture prompt - Thieving Cat
http://i.imgur.com/YH3mfHh.jpg
Format: Short story
Genre: Character study, humour
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: OFC, Aragorn, Faramir
Pairings: none
Summary: A cat steals a chop and an old woman reluctantly attends a coronation.
The characters are the property of the Tolkien Estate. No profit has been, nor will be made from this story.
A/n Some words are taken directly from Tolkien. A sequel to “Greeting the Dawn”
http://lindahoyland.livejournal.com/649425.html



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Fëanáro, by Silver Trails

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B2MeM Challenge: Fëanor, Nerdanel, first meeting or first time. I am an absolute sucker for anything Feanor/Nerdanel. The story itself does not have to be a conventional romance. Doesn't even have to be het. Anything goes for me with these two. Foreshadow dark if you must, but I would just love some sweet early relationship something or another. (Prompt by Heartofoshun)

Format: short story (c.348 words)
Genre: romance
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Characters: Nerdanel, Fëanor
Pairings: Nerdanel/Fëanor
Summary: The first days of their marriage

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"I shall not look on your white walls again", by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Challenge:
I just read Robinka's new bio of Huor and was struck by the following quotation about Rian: "she was a singer and a maker of songs".
I'd like to see a story that features Rian as maker of songs.
Bonus points for including anything about her relationship with Huor.
Robinka's bio (with her thoughts about Huor and Rian as a couple) is here:
http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/reference/characterofthemonth/huor.php [my own prompt]
Format: short story (c.1800 words); poem
Genre: character study, romance
Rating: PG
Warnings: mild angst, reference to canonical battle and death
Characters: Huor, Hurin, Morwen, Rian [there appear to be no "huor" or "rian" tags yet?]
Pairings: Huor/Rian
Creators' Notes (optional):  Although I bought my own prompt and filled it, I can imagine very different fills for this prompt and still hope to see them! My own fill was inspired by other parts of Robinka's bio of Huor as well as the one I quoted in the prompt and is written from Huor's POV, so naturally it is dedicated to binkaslibrary. The title is a quotation taken from Huor's words to King Turgon just before his death.
Summary: Trying to settle back into his old life after his return from the hidden city of Gondolin, Huor of Dor-lomin meets his future wife Rian of the House of Beor for the first time.

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How the Maidens Got Their Swords... By curiouswombat.

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B2MeM Challenge: From ladyelleth; Lothíriel is about to marry Éomer and become Queen of Rohan, but grows nervous the night before the festivities. She seeks out Éowyn for comfort, who tells stories to pass the time and to familiarize Lothíriel a little more with Rohirric culture and tradition - among them Éowyn's favourite about the first Shieldmaiden of the Rohirrim, and how that tradition began.

That story could be based on Germanic myth (Hervor (II) from the Hervarar Saga, maybe?) and history, or canon (or both). Encyclopedia of Arda has some interesting thoughts, and there's a reference in HoMe VIII stating that Éowyn says that women must ride now, as they did in a like evil time in the days of Brego [> Aldor], when the wild men of the East came from the Inland Sea into the Eastemnet.


Format: Ficlet (approx. 700 words)

Genre: Narrative

Rating: General

Warnings: None

Characters: Éowyn, Lothiríel, Arwen.

Pairings: None

Creators' Notes (optional): This owes its style to both the Saga of Noggin the Nog (Oliver Postgate) and the Anglo-Saxon tradition of story telling by the scops (or bards).

Summary: Éowyn tells how the tradition of Shieldmaidens began.


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