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Tue, 24 Mar 2020 02:48:55 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

March 24th Prompt: He sat down on the bank at the side of the road and looked away east into the haze, beyond which lay the River, and the end of the Shire in which he had spent all his life. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 3)

Format: ficlet
Genre: gen.
Rating: General
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Sam Gamgee
Pairings: n/a

He was not, Sam knew, a hobbit possessed of much imagination or given to the desire for adventure. ( Read more... )

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Lights Without Beginning, Middle or End

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:44:37 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt Generator: Creation

Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen, alternate universe
Rating: gen
Warnings: a female Sauron?
Characters: Mairen (Lady!Sauron), Celebrimbor, Original Character
Pairings: Sauron/Celebrimbor (admittedly as much a complex friendship as anything else)
Creator’s Notes: The room Mairen created was inspired by one of Kusama’s infinity rooms. The title refers to Kusama’s descriptions of her own work which plays tricks with perception through repetition of an image. The apprentice was borrowed, with apologies, from Pandemonium’s “The Apprentice.” This verse is ever and always offered in gratitude to those whose work has moved me.
Summary: Mairen has an unusual surprise for Celebrimbor’s begetting day.

“Should I go?” Tyelperinquar asked. ( Read more... )

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Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:18:38 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt: March 15: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! For non-story responses, choose a book from your shelf, open it to the middle, and choose a sentence from the middle of the page; create a fanwork starting from that point and see what develops.
Format: ficlet
Genre: alternate universe: gender swap
Rating: General
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Mairen (Lady!Sauron), Finrod, Draugluin
Pairings: n/a

“Bravely done,” Mairen said lazily, clapping slowly. “Well sung.”

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"Latest Edition", by Himring

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:29:30 GMT

Posted by: hhimring

B2MeM Prompt: March 20: Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.
Format: ficlet
Genre: humor
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Characters: Pengolodh, Celebrian, Finrod (glimpse of); Christopher Tolkien, JRR Tolkien
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: With apologies to JRRT and Christopher but, at least in intention, affectionate and respectful towards both of them. (Pengolodh is the in-universe author of the Quenta Silmarillion.)
Summary: There may be an afterlife, but there is no final version of the Silmarillion.

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The Rocket

Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:22:36 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

Prompt: Whistler’s Nocturne in Black and Gold

Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gen.
Rating: Gen
Characters: Bilbo, Arwen

Bilbo watched as the small rocket lifted and then exploded into the night sky. ( Read more... )

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"A Septad of Silvestris Variables" by Lferion

Sat, 21 Mar 2020 06:01:51 GMT

Posted by: lferion

B2MeM Prompt: --Day 11: Milky Way and person next to a lake picture,
--Day 15: Begin your story in the middle of an important scene and watch how it unfolds from there! 
Format: Ficlet 
Genre: Humor, Animals, Adventures in Beleriand 
Rating: General 
Warnings: N/A 
Characters: Fingon 
Pairings: N/A 
Creator’s Notes (optional): Many thanks to Morgynleri and Runa for encouragement and sanity-checking. Also to yhlee for taking a prompt and running with it, giving me ideas. This piece was undoubtably influenced by Terry and Carol Carr's "Some are Born Cats", and goes with my King Fingon's Menagerie series.
Posted on Fan Flashworks for the prompt 'Circle' here. 
Summary: Fingon and inexplicable kittens

A Septad of Silvestris Variables on AO3

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Please Form An Orderly Line

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:23:50 GMT

Posted by: sasha_honeypalm

B2MeM Prompt: Day 20 - Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.

Format: ficlet

Genre: gen

Rating: gen

Warnings: none

Characters: Beren, Luthien, original ainu character

Pairings: Beren/Luthien

Creator’s Notes: I don't even know what this is, just some silliness I banged out in in twenty minutes

Summary: Beren and Luthien go to Mandos the second time

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Carry Him Not, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:36:21 GMT

Posted by: kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt: March 3 - A thing that happened today

Format: Drabble-size? (Almost triple drabble)

Genre: Family

Rating: PG

Warnings: None

Characters: Aragorn, Gilraen, OCs

Pairings: Arathorn/Gilraen (not seen, but obviously)

Summary: Arneth, Arathorn's sister, is tired of Gilraen's coddling the Chieftain's Heir.

A/N: "Inspired by something that happened to you today" - I was watching the USWNT video of Mal and Lindsey chattering in their 'secret language' which consisted mostly of meows and 'meeps'.

Summer, TA 2932

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"Memories of Pain and Comfort", by LadyBrooke

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 01:38:52 GMT

Posted by: ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt: Day 9, "They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Descriptions of canon violence, death
Characters: Maedhros, Fëanor
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): N/A
Summary:Maedhros forgets, after his death.

Fëanor refuses to leave his son to that fate.

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Tol Galen

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:03:36 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

Prompt: "They had begun to forget: forget their own beginnings and legends, forget what little they had known about the greatness of the world.” (Unfinished Tales, Part Three, III, The Quest of Erebor)

Format: Writing
Genre: Character Study
Ratings: Gen.
Warnings: Reference to canonical character death
Characters: None
Pairings: Beren/Lúthien
Summary: Beren and Lúthien in Tol Galen.

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All goes onward

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:18:16 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

Prompt: All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
-Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself"
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Alternative Universe Gender-bending.
Rating: Everyone
Warnings:
Characters: Mairen (Lady!Sauron), Amandil
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): N/A
Summary: Amandil and a female version of Sauron set sail from Middle Earth to Numenor.

Amandil walked towards the stern of the vessel. The prisoner, housed upon his ship and not the king’s flagship, stood quietly and looked back towards the direction where the coastline of Middle Earth might have been seen, had one had the sight of the Eldar or, perhaps, of the Maiar.

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"Beyond All Reason", by LadyBrooke

Fri, 06 Mar 2020 20:32:52 GMT

Posted by: ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt: Day 6 - Finish a WIP fanwork.
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Vignette
Rating: Everyone
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Elrond, Turgon
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): N/A
Summary: Elrond and Turgon speak of Maglor, Maeglin, and bonds of love that are not forgotten.

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The King’s Garden

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:15:25 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt: March 4: Partly open blue door
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gen
Rating: Gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Tar-Miriel
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Miriel considers the changing nature of the King’s Garden in Armenelos.

The King’s Garden

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Light Fails At Dawn by amyfortuna

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:45:58 GMT

Posted by: elwinfortuna

B2MeM Prompt: March 2: A Hopeless Dawn
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Character death
Characters: Andreth, Emeldir, Morwen, Aegnor
Pairings: Aegnor/Andreth, Emeldir/Barahir
Creator’s Notes (optional): The title is from “Time Stands Still At The Iron Hill” by Blind Guardian.
Summary: As the Battle of Sudden Flame rages on, both Aegnor and Andreth meet their fate.

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"Through Ice We Come To The End", by LadyBrooke

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:22:02 GMT

Posted by: ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt: He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. (The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 8)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Angst
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Canonical Character Death
Characters: Dior, Námo
Pairings: Dior/Nimloth
Creator’s Notes (optional): Follows "Winter, Brought By Letters" from Day 2. Knowledge of that story not necessary to read this one.

Dior is given the Gift of Men in this story.
Summary: Dior departs the Halls for fate unknown, but he does not go quietly.

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Desire, A Doused Fire

Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:45:23 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

Prompt: March 4 prompt: He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him. (*The Fellowship of the Ring,* Book I, Chapter 8)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Alternate Universe (genderbending)
Rating: T
Warnings: non-consensual (touching but still non-consensual); threats of violence
Characters: Isildur, Mairen (Lady!Sauron)
Pairings: none
Summary: Isildur breaks into the chambers of the King’s prisoner and is caught.. It might be part of the Revelator ‘verse.

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"Winter, Brought By Letters" by LadyBrooke

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:19:25 GMT

Posted by: ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt: March 2 - "A Hopeless Dawn" by Frank Bramley
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Angst
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Canonical Character Deaths
Characters: Anairë, Nimloth
Pairings: Anairë/Nimloth, Dior/Nimloth, background Anairë/Fingolfin
Creator’s Notes (optional): Dior is given the Gift of Men in this fic. Part of a series about Nimloth in Valinor.
Summary: Nimloth and Anairë receive letters from Mandos.

For one of them, the news brings nothing but despair.

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Roots and Beginnings part 2, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:39:34 GMT

Posted by: kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt: March 2 art
Format: ficlet
Genre: gen,
Rating: PG-13
Warnings:
Characters: Mithrandir (Gandalf, Olorin), OCs
Pairings: OMC/OMC, Fionwe/Olorin (implied, nothing really shown)
Creator’s Notes (optional): This follows on from "Roots and Beginnings". I'm not sure the scene in the art really inspired much except the general mood of this piece - the SWG generator was responsible for much more, lol.
Summary: When Gandalf returns to Imladris following the downfall of Sauron, he meets Teron again, and the jewelsmith is rather taken aback by the changes in the wizard.

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The Old Grey Widow-Maker

Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:49:13 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

Prompt: Bramley’s A Hopeless Dawn
Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Amandil, Mairen (Lady!Sauron)
Pairings: none
Summary: The King’s prisoner is about to take ship to Númenor. It might be part of the Revelator ‘verse.

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Beginnings

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:36:24 GMT

Posted by: lilith_lessfair

B2MeM Prompt: “He was interested in roots and beginnings ...”
Format: Ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel and Celebrimbor
Pairings: Celeborn/Galadriel, unrequited Celebrimbor/Galadriel
Summary: Celeborn, Galadriel and Celebrimbor arrive at the future site of Ost-in-Edhil.
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"Family Business" by StarSpray

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:40:58 GMT

Posted by: starspray

B2MeM Prompt: Daily Prompt: “He was interested in roots and beginnings…” ; Generator Prompt: a character’s education begins
Format: ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Hamfast Gamgee, Samwise Gamgee
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Hamfast is starting to despair of any of his children taking up gardening—until Sam is old enough to start digging in the dirt.

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Roots and Beginnings, by Kaylee Arafinwiel

Sun, 01 Mar 2020 02:33:37 GMT

Posted by: kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt: "He was interested in roots and beginnings..."
Format: ficlet
Genre: gen
Rating: PG-13 for mention of violence
Warnings:
Characters: OC elves, Legolas, Aragorn II, Gandalf, Pippin (Mentions of Feanor and Fingolfin. Gimli, Frodo, Sam, and Merry are also present)
Pairings: OC/OC, though not really explored
Creator’s Notes (optional): For B2MEM, the first prompt was "He was interested in roots and beginnings..." OC names are taken from the realelvish.net randomizer, first lines, last lines, canon beginning and canon ending from SWG's randomizer. That's a lot to make sense of...hopefully I succeeded.
Summary: A gem-crafter of Imladris, prompted by a group of enthusiastic elflings, tries to tell the story of the most famous gems in all of Arda. May or may not be complete...

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Cubs by Arka744

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 09:34:08 GMT

Posted by: arka744

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: "Witch-king of Angmar" (N33), "Sauron" (B3), "Dol Guldur" (I30) from "The dark side"
Format: ficlet
Genre: general
Rating: general
Warnings: none
Characters: Witch-king of Angmar, Sauron
Pairings: Witch-king of Angmar/Sauron
Creator’s Notes (optional): none
Summary: Sauron loves his wargs.

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Fugue by uirgiliana

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:59:23 GMT

Posted by: ermingarden

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: "Cake and Ale and Coffee" (N32) from "Eat, Drink, and Make Merry", "baking" (O64) from "Talents and Skills", "Friends, Family, and Interpersonal Relations" (B11) from "Worldbuilding"
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Recipe fic, angst
Rating: General
Warnings: No specific warnings, but this fic deals with a heavy topic.
Characters: Arwen, Celebrían
Pairings: None
Summary: Celebrían has sailed, and Arwen is alone with her grief.

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Ignorance is Bliss by Tehhumi

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:05:17 GMT

Posted by: tehhumi

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Finweion Friendship: Finrod & Celegorm O66, Alternative Rock Lyrics: “Feed my eyes can you sew them shut?” - Alice in Chains O66, Discoveries and Inventions: Warfare I20
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Vignette
Rating: General
Warnings: lots of Beleriand place names thrown about, map suggested
Characters: Finrod, Celegorm
Pairings: none
Summary: Finrod has been ignoring how bad things are outside Nargothrond. Celegorm’s arrival makes that impossible.
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