b2mem | Entries tagged with card:genre 1

This is a slightly unusual rec list; certain prompts brought to mind specific fics and that's what I'm posting here, whether I love them or just kinda like them or literally haven't read them in years.

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sasha_honeypalm

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: b14 (Genre: Romance)
Format: Song lyrics
Genre: filk, romance
Rating: G
Warnings: Cheesy metaphors and painful rhymes (though still not as bad as the original)
Characters: Amarië, Finrod
Pairings: Amarië/Finrod
Creator’s Notes 1: Apologies to 1) Tolkien 2) Dean Martin 3) anyone reading this
Creator’s Notes 2: Honest, I really wasn't planning to make fun of tra-la-lally two entries in a row, it's just that it was the closest thing I could think of to Martin's 'ting-a-ling-a-ling' inanity.
Summary: Finrod composes an ode to his beloved.

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B11, Echoes in the Water, Landscape, Of the Sea, Currents, Shirish, Snippets of Verse, Writer's Block Smash, Worldbuilding, Tolkien's Trees, Second Age 2, Relationship, Person vs. Self, Injuries or Other Ailments, Hurt/Comfort, Genre 1, Apothecary Garden
Format: ficlet
Genre: family
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: canon death
Characters: Fastred of Greenholm, Elanor Gardner, Firiel Fairbairn, Elfstan Fairbairn, Faramir Took, Goldilocks Gardner, Samwise Gamgee, Rose Cotton
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): Thank you to Dreamflower for Miss Dora Baggins' Book of Manners and the Writing of Letters, as well as On Funerals sections, with which this story would not exist.
Summary: Fastred of Greenholm, Warden of the Westmarch, gets some terrible news from Great Smials a few days after Yule.

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moetushie

B2MeM Challenge: A throwback from 2012! G56 - Genres Card - Slash & Sons of Fëanor Card - Caranthir after Uldor’s betrayal, Book Title: The Bloody Chamber.
Format: Short Story
Genre: Angst/Drama
Rating: Mature
Warnings: major character death, violence
Characters: Uldor, Caranthir
Pairings: Uldor/Caranthir
Author's Note: This fic has been gathering (metophorical) dust in my WIP folder since B2MeM 2012 (long may it be remembered.) It's about as ready as it'll ever be, I think.
Summary: They were both cursed.

Please read & comment on AO3

ladyelleth.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge:
B6: Genre1: Murder Mystery
O62: Genre1: Mystery
Format: Ficlet
Genre: (Murder) Mystery
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Mentions of violence, possibly disturbing ideas
Characters: Maedhros, Fingon
Pairings: N/A (though if you'd like to assume there is a pairing, there is nothing in the fic to contradict that)
Summary: Maedhros wakes in a field, disoriented and full of blood.
Notes: Many thanks to GG, who was very patient betaing this, and Zeen for (unknowingly) inspiring this.

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moetushie

B2MeM Challenge: B6 - Last Lines: There wouldn't be any decent wine, would there?, Genre: Murder Mystery / Snippets of Verse: One must have a mind of winter
Format: Double-drabble
Genre: Murder Mystery, of course.
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Violent death, i.e. murder
Characters: Unnamed detective, Maedhros, Finwe, Fingon
Pairings: Hm.
Title: The Case of the Murdered King
Summary: Noir Silmarillion? Don’t mind if I do!

Link goes to my journal.

ladyelleth.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge:
B13: Smells: Petrichor (Smell of Dust after Rain)
G59: Genre1: Tragedy
Format: Poetry
Genre: Didactic Cinquain
Rating: Teens
Warnings: N/A
Characters: N/A
Pairings: N/A
Summary: A moment after rain on the Hill of the Slain.

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dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge (ready for this?):
N36: Rangers of the North: Dirhael
Magic and Real: The Spirits of the House

O62: Deep thoughts: faith seeking understanding
Genre I: Mystery
Rangers of the North: Arador
Women of the Silmarillion: Passing the Bechdel test (by the skin of my teeth)

O64: Deep thoughts: you
Four words: infidelity, new, mesmerize, classify
Rangers of the North: Protectors
Scientific achievement: arithmetic
Format: drabble series
Genre: general
Rating: T
Warning: Coherency is an overrated virtue...
Characters: OFCs, OMCs, Arador, Dírhael, Argonui
Pairings: OFC/Argonui, OFC/Arador
Summary: In the bleak of winter, she will rule her world.

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moetushie

B2MeM Challenge: O62 - Genre: Mystery, Snippets of Verse: Art’s hid causes are not found
Format: Free verse poetry - 255 words
Genre:Mystery/Horror
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Implied character death. Also, poetry.
Characters: Eluréd, Elurín, Maedhros, the woods of Doriath, and Maglor.
Pairings: None.
Title: Notes for A Winter’s Tale (Not Meant for Children)
Summary: What happens to little princes, lost in the dark woods?

Link goes to my journal.

ladyelleth.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge:
B9: Genre1: Adventure; Science: Metalworking; TV Tropes: Ultimate Blacksmith
Format: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: General
Warnings: Some obliquely hinted dark themes. (Aka: Eöl is a creep.)
Characters: Eöl, unnamed Dwarves
Pairings: N/A
Summary: How Eöl and the Naugrim met.

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dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge: B14: Femslash: kink
Genre I: romance
Magic and Real: The immortal
Format: short story
Genre: Romance. Deathfic. Kink.
Rating: A very definite M. Maybe higher just for the concept, in which case if it's a problem, I'll remove it to my journal.
Warnings: See everything above. See also summary.
Characters: Orcs
Pairing: OFC/OFC
Summary: Orcs in love. Be afraid.

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ladyelleth.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge:
B7: Artifacts: Narsil; Evil, Villains and Monsters: Shelob
N33: Artifacts: Gurthang; Here we come A-Caroling: "You would even say it glows..."; Economy: Infrastructure; Food and Drink: Miruvor; Four Words: gang, remarkable, blackberry, nicety; Smells: Onion
N31: Fëanátics: Fëanor hugged his kids; Horror: Darkness, fog and shadows; TV Tropes: Royals who actually do something; Waters: Clouds
I21: Colours: Purple; Genre1: Thriller; Smells: Meat
Format: Drabble Series
Genre: Adventure
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Not for the arachnophobic. Also, some self-indulgent headcanon.
Characters: Elros, Elrond, Maglor, Maedhros, various OCs
Pairings: N/A
Summary: The first bearer of Narsil encounters his first enemy.

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ladyelleth.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge:
N41: Artifacts and Weapons: Ulumúri
O65: Artifacts and Weapons: Glingal, Genre1: SciFi, TVTropes: Overshadowed by Awesome, Women of the Silmarillion: Women of Gondolin
Format: Fic
Genre: SciFi
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Some crude language, binary, and made-up computer communication.
Characters: Aredhel (and various others)
Pairings: N/A
Summary: The communication log of Patient01000001 01110010 01100101 01100100 01101000 01100101 01101100 aboard Hospital Ship Halls of Mandos. (With apologies to

aliana1, whose concept of space!Middle-earth I may have borrowed.)

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moetushie

B2MeM Challenge: O65 Genre Card - Scifi (along with drabbles for B10 Sons of Fëanor Card, Maedhros as a leader and N41 ‘the evil servants of Celegorm’)
Format: Ficlet - 385 words + 2 drabbles
Genre: Humor, sort of.
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Violence!
Characters: OCs, Balrogs, Fingon. (Drabbles: Maedhros, OCs)
Pairings: None
Notes: Fingon’s death does not seem like a thing that would’ve been closely witnessed.
Title: The Curious Incident of the Time-Travelers in the Battle-field
Summary: Time-traveling shenanigans in the Fifth Battle.

Drabbles here / Ficlet here.

dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com

B2MeM Challenge: O65: First lines: The towers of ____ aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.
Genre 1: Sci-fi
Scientific achievement: statics (also statistics - thanks, Pande, for the correction)
Format: ficlet
Genre: Vaguely steam-punkish
Rating: K+
Characters: The Tower of Dúrin.
Summary: There will be no second Gundabad.

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rhyselle.livejournal.com

First B2MeM Challenge: O72 - Games people play – Drinking & Genre – Coming of Age
Format: Drabble
Title: First Time
Genre: Humor
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Eomer and Theodred
Pairings: N/A
Summary: A Rohirric Tradition is observed by a new generation

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Current Mood: productive

moetushie

B2MeM Challenge: O72, Genre Card - coming of age
Format: Double drabble (and then a bit)
Title: A quality of loss
Genre: general
Rating: General
Warnings: Brief mention of past violence
Characters: Elros, Elrond, and Maglor
Pairings: none
Summary: Elros is hungry, Elrond wants answers and Maglor can't run forever. (Yet.)

(This is a fake-cut to my journal.)