Are We Having Fun Yet - by Elwen

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Bingo G54 Canon Couples Elrond & Celebrian
Format: Drabble
Genre: Romance
Rating: Teens
Warnings: None
Characters: Elrond, Celebrian
Pairings: Elrond, Celebrian
Creators' Notes (optional): None
Summary: A little gardening can be fun


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March 6 Prompts

[ysilme]

Here are today’s prompts:

• In the "Tale of the Years" Tolkien tells us about what happens to certain characters each day of March 3019. We challenge you to write about the character(s) he does NOT mention: “Aragorn overtaken by the Dúnedain in the early hours. Théoden sets out from the Hornburg for Harrowdale. Aragorn sets out later."


• F: Like a fearful Faramir


• There they dwelt, and if they wished they could see the light of the Trees, and could tread the golden streets of Valmar and the crystal stairs of Tirion upon Túna, the green hill; but most of all they sailed in their swift ships on the waters of the Bay of Elvenhome, or walked in the waves upon the shore with their hair gleaming in the light beyond the hill. Many jewels the Noldor gave them, opals and diamonds and pale crystals, which they strewed upon the shores and scattered in the pools; marvellous were the beaches of Elendë in those days. And many pearls they won for themselves from the sea, and their halls were of pearl, and of pearl were the mansions of Olwë at Alqualondë, the Haven of the Swans, lit with many lamps. For that was their city, and the haven of their ships; and those were made in the likeness of swans, with beaks of gold and eyes of gold and jet. The gate of that harbour was an arch of living rock sea-carved; and it lay upon the confines of Eldamar, north of the Calacirya, where the light of the stars was bright and clear.


• "Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."-Leonard Bernstein, American composer. Write a story, poem or create an artwork where this quote is validated.


• Greed is good! Write a story or poem or create artwork that will prove or disprove this statement.


• O67


• “Yet no song or tale could contain all the grief and terror that then befell. The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light. In that hour was made a Darkness that seemed not lack but a thing with being of its own: for it was indeed made by malice out of Light, and it had power to pierce the eye, and to enter heart and mind, and strangle the very will.”


• “At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character. Below, though the threads were in places blurred or broken, the outline could be seen of an anvil and a hammer surmounted by a crown with seven stars. Beneath these again were two trees, each bearing crescent moons. More clearly than all else there shone forth in the middle of the door a single star with many rays.”


• "It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
  Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
  It lies behind stars and under hills,
  And empty holes it fills.
  It comes first and follows after,
  Ends life, kills laughter."

For more prompts, check out the 2016:prompts tag.

Old Strider by Linda Hoyland

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B2MeM Challenge:
"But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them now for the first time. Tall he seemed and yet in the flower of manhood; and wisdom sat upon his brow, and strength and healing were in his hands, and a light was about him."
Format: Ficlet
Genre: General
Rating:G
Warnings:None
Characters: Frodo,Sam,Merry, Pippin, Aragorn
Pairings: none
Summary: The Hobbits discuss the events of a momentous day.

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Translations from the Elvish, by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Challenge: 2016 Memories; 2015: Market-place: Translations (prompt by dawn_felagund); 2012 BINGO, "Elvish": B15, I23, G54 (more details in the notes below)
Format: short story (c.1750 words)
Genre: Vignette
Rating: PG
Warnings: references to canon violence
Characters: Elrond, Bilbo Baggins
Pairings: n/a
Creator's Notes: Apart from the prompts, this owes a great deal to Dawn Felagund's recently posted bio of Pengolodh: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/reference/characterofthemonth/pengolodh.php
Summary: Elrond and Bilbo discuss "Translations from the Elvish" and its sources, especially the writings of Pengolodh.

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Stolen Light by Chiaroscuro, by Scribe of Mirrormere

[greatandgrey]

B2MeM Challenge: 2016 Memories; 2012 BINGO, "Crackfic", O-67: characters discover fanfiction
Format: Fic
Genre: Crack
Rating: PG-13 for language
Warnings: None
Characters: Aredhel, Eöl, elf and dwarf OCs, cameos from other canon characters (most mentioned in pairings) and Curufin cameo
Pairings: Aredhel/Eöl, background: Mablung/Beleg, Rôg/Meleth, Gildor/Maglor
Creators' Notes (optional): I have always wanted a story where Aredhel and Eöl collaborate on writing fanfiction, so in this AU of Middle-earth, everything is the same except somehow the internet (and laptop) exists (also Maeglin is not born yet, and probably won’t be since these two are busy creating something else.) And for the sake of this story, we are going to assume mithril has already been discovered by then.
Summary: Eöl discovers the world of fanfiction thanks to Aredhel and agrees to collaborate on a project with her.

Stolen Light by Chiaroscuro: SWG | AO3

Wraiths Writing Poetry, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

B2MEM Challenge: I29: ghazal (Poetic Forms), What is the most tedious, routine work that you have to do? Write down a few tedious or routine tasks that you're sometimes required to perform. How does doing routine work make you feel? Would you like to have somebody do it for you? Now write a story, poem or create an artwork where characters have to deal with tedious jobs.

B2MEM 2015: Khamûl’s Sulfurous Exfoliants (for my prompt. This ficlet is slightly inspired by, but not officially related to, the crackfic inspired by same last year.)
Format: ficlet, poetry
Genre: Crack, probably. Also romance? Ish? Humor? Depends on what you find funny…I laughed so hard writing it…
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Um. Do not eat or drink anything while reading.
Characters: Khamûl, Ringwraiths
Pairings: Three/you’ll see
Creator’s Notes (optional): This came to me when I was rereading the Poetic Forms card, and saw “ghazal” which to me sounded like a Ringwraith name or something. I asked my friend Anda what a Ringwraith might write poetry about, and she said “Find out.” Challenge accepted….and now I feel weird.
Summary: At Tharbad’s Greenway Spring Faire one year, Wraith Three whiles away the time between customers by jotting down some poetry that was running through his head. He never expected the subject of his poetry to find it…


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When Friends Play Cupid by Dreamflower

[dreamflower]

B2MeM Challenge: 2016 Memories; 2012 BINGO, "Canon Couples", I-25
Format: Poetry, Dribble
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Éomer, Lothiriel
Pairings: Éomer/Lothiriel
Creators' Notes (optional): I began some of these dribbles for the "Canon Couples" card in 2012, and decided to see how many more of them I could complete this year.
Summary: Sometimes the matchmakers are right.

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March 7 Prompts

[independence1776]

Here are today’s prompts:

• In the "Tale of the Years" Tolkien tells us about what happens to certain characters each day of March 3019. We challenge you to write about the character(s) he does NOT mention: “Frodo taken by Faramir to Henneth Annûn. Aragorn comes to Dunharrow at nightfall. "


• G: Like a gasping Galadriel


• Thus unseen he came at last to the dark region of Avathar. That narrow land lay south of the Bay of Eldamar, beneath the eastern feet of the Pelóri, and its long and mournful shores stretched away into the south, lightless and unexplored. There, beneath the sheer walls of the mountains and the cold dark sea, the shadows were deepest and thickest in the world; and there in Avathar, secret and unknown, Ungoliant had made her abode.


• Imagine this! You are walking in the woods and sudden a tree whispers to you... What does it say? What is your reaction? Capture this moment in a story, poem or piece of art.


• Overcoming prejudices is as hard in Middle-earth as in our primary universe. Write a story or poem or create artwork where the characters try to reach across racial or gender or any other barrier.


• B10


• “And in those days the strength of Men was added to the power of the Noldor; and their hope was high; and Morgoth was straitly enclosed.”


• “It is said that the towers of Emyn Beraid were not built indeed by the Exiles of Númenor, but were raised by Gil-galad for Elendil, his friend; and the Seeing Stone of Emyn Beraid was set in Elostirion, the tallest of the towers. Thither Elendil would repair, and thence he would gaze out over the sundering seas, when the yearning of exile was upon him; and it is believed that thus he would at whiles see far away even the Tower of Avallónë upon Eressëa, where the Masterstone abode, and yet abides.”


• "Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril."

For more prompts, check out the 2016:prompts tag.