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b2memB2MeM Prompt and Path: Fanworks Recs: Creators Who Are New to You (yellow path)
Format: rec list
Genre: (see below)
Rating: (see below)
Warnings: (see below)
Characters: (see below)
Pairings: (see below)
Summary: Six stories, ficlets, and poems by five authors who were unfamiliar to me. Mostly featuring Sons of Fëanor, though that wasn’t intentional.
Lintaran by Los Gloriol
Format: ficlet (666 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Celegorm
Pairings: none
Summary: Celegorm (Tyelkormo for those picky like me), goes forth to hunt in the Forest of Orome. On this particular day he encounters the mighty stag, Lintaran, whom he battles. This story is in the style of a folklore. At least that is what I was trying to convey. Celegorm is not always cooperative.
I like the mutual respect here between hunter and prey. I like the folktale style too -- it reminds me of the Mabinogion.
Fragment: In the long days of Darkness by losselen
Format: poetry (264 words)
Genre: poetry, femslash
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Original Female Character, Tar-Ancalimë
Pairings: Original Female Character/Tar-Ancalimë
Summary: Found in the personal collections of Barahir, transcribed and translated into Westron from its original Adûnaic. A fragment of a poem for Ancalimë, from a poetess who loved her.
This is a beautiful poem. I love both the echoes of Sappho and the way the author uses references to Middle-earth events that the poet would have known about. It feels appropriate for court poetry to be complex and allusive.
Songs for the Seasons by losselen
Format: poetry (1082 words)
Genre: experimental, general, poetry, het
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Aegnor, Andreth, Arwen, Daeron, Elrond, Lúthien Tinúviel
Pairings: Aegnor/Andreth, Aragorn/Arwen
Summary: For everything there is a season. Multi-age. Multiple characters. Prose poems of loss, through the ages.
These are just beautiful. And the four poems work well together -- they feel like one conversation about loss and hope and mortality.
Cold light by Mantida
Format: short story (1183 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Original Dwarf Characters, Maedhros
Pairings: none
Summary: On the strange gift of the heirs of Azaghâl and the final fate of Maedhros the Kinslayer. A Third Age ghost story.
I really enjoyed this! I like the style, which feels like a folktale. I always enjoy reading about friendship or connection between Dwarves and Elves, and this is a unique one. I like how the apparition is both sad and terrible, and how the debt of honor plays out.
The Fated by SWE
Format: short story (3445 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Amras, Amrod, Fëanor, Nerdanel
Pairings: background Fëanor/Nerdanel
Summary: A story about the dangers of giving your twins the same name. Starring... Ambarussa. And their parents.
Featuring identity-confused Ambarussa. I love the understated angst, drama, and characters in denial, Fëanor's exasperation and Nerdanel's moments of prophecy. I think the tangled, non-linear narrative works well here, and I like the use of quotations from the HOME version for dramatic effect.
Aching Dawn of Hope by yet_intrepid
Format: ficlet (404 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Maedhros, Fingon
Pairings: none
Summary: The sun rises for the first time, sent from Valinor, as Maedhros hangs upon Thangorodrim and hears the trumpets of Fingolfin's host. Perhaps, he dares to think, he is not abandoned.
Beautifully written and devastating.
Format: rec list
Genre: (see below)
Rating: (see below)
Warnings: (see below)
Characters: (see below)
Pairings: (see below)
Summary: Six stories, ficlets, and poems by five authors who were unfamiliar to me. Mostly featuring Sons of Fëanor, though that wasn’t intentional.
Lintaran by Los Gloriol
Format: ficlet (666 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Celegorm
Pairings: none
Summary: Celegorm (Tyelkormo for those picky like me), goes forth to hunt in the Forest of Orome. On this particular day he encounters the mighty stag, Lintaran, whom he battles. This story is in the style of a folklore. At least that is what I was trying to convey. Celegorm is not always cooperative.
I like the mutual respect here between hunter and prey. I like the folktale style too -- it reminds me of the Mabinogion.
Fragment: In the long days of Darkness by losselen
Format: poetry (264 words)
Genre: poetry, femslash
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Original Female Character, Tar-Ancalimë
Pairings: Original Female Character/Tar-Ancalimë
Summary: Found in the personal collections of Barahir, transcribed and translated into Westron from its original Adûnaic. A fragment of a poem for Ancalimë, from a poetess who loved her.
This is a beautiful poem. I love both the echoes of Sappho and the way the author uses references to Middle-earth events that the poet would have known about. It feels appropriate for court poetry to be complex and allusive.
Songs for the Seasons by losselen
Format: poetry (1082 words)
Genre: experimental, general, poetry, het
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Aegnor, Andreth, Arwen, Daeron, Elrond, Lúthien Tinúviel
Pairings: Aegnor/Andreth, Aragorn/Arwen
Summary: For everything there is a season. Multi-age. Multiple characters. Prose poems of loss, through the ages.
These are just beautiful. And the four poems work well together -- they feel like one conversation about loss and hope and mortality.
Cold light by Mantida
Format: short story (1183 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Original Dwarf Characters, Maedhros
Pairings: none
Summary: On the strange gift of the heirs of Azaghâl and the final fate of Maedhros the Kinslayer. A Third Age ghost story.
I really enjoyed this! I like the style, which feels like a folktale. I always enjoy reading about friendship or connection between Dwarves and Elves, and this is a unique one. I like how the apparition is both sad and terrible, and how the debt of honor plays out.
The Fated by SWE
Format: short story (3445 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Amras, Amrod, Fëanor, Nerdanel
Pairings: background Fëanor/Nerdanel
Summary: A story about the dangers of giving your twins the same name. Starring... Ambarussa. And their parents.
Featuring identity-confused Ambarussa. I love the understated angst, drama, and characters in denial, Fëanor's exasperation and Nerdanel's moments of prophecy. I think the tangled, non-linear narrative works well here, and I like the use of quotations from the HOME version for dramatic effect.
Aching Dawn of Hope by yet_intrepid
Format: ficlet (404 words)
Genre: gen
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Maedhros, Fingon
Pairings: none
Summary: The sun rises for the first time, sent from Valinor, as Maedhros hangs upon Thangorodrim and hears the trumpets of Fingolfin's host. Perhaps, he dares to think, he is not abandoned.
Beautifully written and devastating.
