Change and Decay in all Around I See - Linda Hoyland

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B2MeM Challenge:Song prompt: "Verdi prati"
One of the themes in Tolkien's works is the fading of beauty. Write/draw/create another type of fanwork inspired by "Verdi prati" from Handel's opera Alcina.
Green meadows, pleasant woods,
you will lose your beauty.
Lovely flowers, flowing streams,
your grace and loveliness
will soon change.
And once the beautiful scene is changed,
everything in you will return
to the wildness of your original appearance. (translation Lignota)
Also inspired by
Flowery Meadow
Format: ficlet
Genre: romance, hurt/comfort
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Aragorn, Arwen
Pairings: Aragorn/Arwen, brief mentions of Faramir/Éowyn and Lúthien/Beren
Summary: Aragorn consoles a melancholy Arwen.
The characters are the property of the Tolkien Estate. No profit has been nor will be made from this story.
A/n. part of my “Return to Rivendell” series.



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The Master and the King, by Rhymer

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B2MeM Challenge: "We know that Éomer wrote to Merry at the end of his life, but it seems logical they would have had other correspondence over the years. It would be really neat to see the letters exchanged between the Lord of the Mark and the Master of Buckland." (Prompt by Dreamflower)

Format: Short story
Genre: Epistolary. Faux scholarship. Gen.
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Merry and Éomer
Pairings: References to Éomer/Lothíriel, Merry/Estella and Pippin/Diamond, but none of these are the focus of the story
Author's Note: When Tolkien is silent about the timing of certain Fourth Age events (e.g. Merry's marriage) I've chosen dates of my own. I've gone for a later date for Merry's marriage that might be expected, because I wanted Pippin to experience at least one rite of passage before his older cousin.

Summary: Meriadoc the Magnificent is a popular figure of folklore, but how many of the stories are true? What, for example, is to be made of the claim that he regularly corresponded with a king? After centuries of bitter debate, at last these questions can be answered. Thanks to an extraordinary discovery, at last can Meriadoc and his king speak to us in their own voices, clear across the gulf of years.

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"The Amplitude Of Time" by Amy Fortuna

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B2MeM Challenge: Multi-Age: Maglor in history. (This is the prompt that got me started thinking along these lines, but the story as finished doesn't really fit it at all.)
Multi-Age: Idioms & Translations. (There's a tiny bit of this one in there.)
General Prompts: Cultural Identification, connection with land, culture. (Bit of this one in there too.)
General Prompts: Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. (This one's probably the most to blame; I could mine this poem for stories for years!)
Format: Short story - 3800 words.
Genre: Crackfic, Experimental, Family, AU
Rating: PG-13 maybe (I'm really not sure how to rate this, but it probably shouldn't be read by kids.)
Warnings: Main character death, from a certain perspective.
Characters: Maglor, Feanor, Morgoth
Pairings: referenced Feanor/Nerdanel
Creators' Notes (optional): So I was thinking of various ways to send Maglor home, and this is the wildest idea I could come up with, so of course I had to write it.
Summary: Maglor has one chance to put everything right again, and he's going to take it.

"I laugh at what you call dissolution/And I know the amplitude of time." - Song Of Myself, by Walt Whitman


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"Maryame crosses the Marches to see Vanimo", by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Challenge: A canon character tells a story about an original character. [My own prompt]

Format: Short story (c. 1100 words)

Genre: hurt/comfort;

Rating: Teens

Warnings: Non-explicit reference to orcish violence and torture; somewhat more explicit references to the aftermath

Characters: Original characters (Noldor), Sons of Feanor (Caranthir, Maglor, Maedhros, Celegorm), Aegnor, Edhellos (Eldalote)

Pairings: OFC/OMC (implied)

Creators' Notes (optional): In passing, as it were, I inflicted a dire fate on two original characters in another story. Here is their own story, how they dealt with it, as told by others.

Summary: Despite her physical disability, a woman crosses Beleriand to assist a fellow victim. She has help on the way.


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