Found Poem, by Himring

[hhimring]

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G54: Gladden River (Card 61. Echoes in the Water), G54: And the runaway honeysuckle that no one will ever trim again (Card 115. The Late, Great Mary Oliver), G54: Once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures (Card 192. Tolkien Quotes), and almost all other G54 prompts.
Format: poetry (not really)
Genre: crack
Rating: PG (mostly harmless)
Warnings: None, except for foolishness. Well, technically character death.
Characters: miscellaneous or n/a
Pairings: Egalmoth/Celegorm (sort of), Beor/? (sort of), Celebrian/Elrond (sort of)
Creator’s Notes: Using Sasha Honeypalm's compilation of the text-only prompts for G54, an attempt to construct a found poem from all the G54 prompts. I gave up on the mysterious numbers designating the colour, but shoehorned the rest in.
Summary: Helter-skelter across Arda and through the Ages, vaguely chronological, with a small virtual reward at the end.

Found Poem


What would be the worst thing about living in your favorite Arda location?
a) chilly winds,
b) hwesta (breeze),
c) the elfish light fell off in hoary flakes.

Orocarni,
trade fair:
laws and beliefs of Avari,
Easterling language.

New romantic relationship:
Egalmoth/Celegorm.
First time!

Beor,
grey.
May/December romance?

That weaselly Fingolfin?
Alternative POV:
Grond.
(Morgoth vs Fingon)

Managing temporary settlement at Hithlum:
Dor-lómin.
"Of Turin Turambar"
Aerin:
Damned shall thy house be!

Indis,
Mahtan,
Celebrimbor's mother,
waiting.
Broken heart?
Estel…

Intergenerational Friendship?
Sauron: Celebrimbor's "betrayal".
ear-afterthought-standard-executioner

Elrond/Celebrian.
Elrond and Celebrian raising Arwen.
Glorfindel of Gondolin = Glorfindel of Rivendell.
Draw character with teddy bear!

Orcs:
Azog.
(We hate Morgoth.)

Mirabella Took:
once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures.
Collaborate with a cosplayer?

Fisherman,
Gladden River.
Mathom?!!

Being chased:
haste, haste!
Evading black riders!

Rohirrim given Calenardhon
(smell: horse)
Legolas in Rohan
(in the next 500 words your character does something totally OOC):
Gimli or Legolas dies at Helm's Deep.

The dark forests of the south?
Nature.
Bregalad—
and the runaway honeysuckle that no one will ever trim again…

Ostracization and exile +
pantoum =
Maglor during Great Depression.

Ambarussa vs Weasley twins?
Funny!

Quality time:
Beorning honey cakes,
macarons,
athelas!

Comments

[erulissedances]

OK, I'm impressed, even though I don't pretend to actually understand the poem. It's still got some gems in it. I loved Ambarussa vs Weasley twins ... yeah!

- Erulisse (one L)

[hhimring]

Thank you, Erulisse!
It's more or less comprehensible depending how the prompts cooperated, as I didn't edit them to fit.
The "fisherman" bit is meant to be about Deagol, for instance.

"Ambarussa vs Weasley twins" is actually a prompts as it stands, I just added the prompt "funny" to go with it.

[grundyscribbling]

It works surprisingly well! (Though I must say that
Orcs:
Azog.
(We hate Morgoth.)
was my favorite bit.)

[hhimring]

As I was being stubborn and not editing the prompts (except for dropping card names) and insisted on including all of them, there were always going to be some that worked better than others!
I'm glad that you liked that one.

[sasha_honeypalm]

All of them? Incredible!

I think my favorite part was either
(in the next 500 words your character does something totally OOC):
Gimli or Legolas dies at Helm's Deep.

or

Ambarussa vs Weasley twins?
Funny!

[hhimring]

I think it was all of them, except for the mysterious artist's colour code, but I confess I didn't go back to check. Looking at your lists had been tempting me for a bit, and then I saw two others doing found poems, although it wasn't an official prompt of mine. But, I wouldn't have undertaken it without your list, so thank you very much!

Glad you enjoyed those two bits.
I thought dying was about as OOC for Legolas as it gets (and there's a sneaky allusion to movie-Haldir in there, too)!

[sasha_honeypalm]

"I don't always die, but when I do it's not at Helm's Deep."

[heartofoshun]

Well, that is very creative! I got several chuckles out of it!

OMG! I take this stuff waaaaay too seriously.

It's hard to choose a favorite. But I think this is mine:

That weaselly Fingolfin?
Alternative POV:
Grond.
(Morgoth vs Fingon)

[hhimring]

Oh, good, if you got several chuckles out of it, then this piece has earned its keep!

[heartofoshun]

Definitely worth the effort!