b2mem | Entries tagged with card:late great mary oliver

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Setting as a Character O68: A Cave or Hole, I24: Closed-in Spaces; Late Great Mary Oliver B15: I have become the friend of the enemy, whoever that is; In the Words of Shakespeare G50: Pardon's the word to all; Apothecary Garden B15: Sore eyes/eyebright
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: PG
Warnings: non graphic discussion of injuries
Characters: Elured, Elurin, OCs
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Elured and Elurin are looking for the source of the River Langwell when they get distracted by a landslide.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Late Great Mary Oliver I18: "I don't know exactly what a prayer is."; Setting as a Character G50: animal guide
Format: ficlet
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Beren, a deer
Pairings: n/a
Summary: "but [Beren] became the friend of birds and beasts, and they aided him..."

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: The Second Age I18: Numenor, N32: Elros; Late Great Mary Oliver N39: "...makes me take measure of myself, one iota pondering heaven", O66: "We should take small thoughtful steps. But, bless us, we didn't."; Setting as a Character O66: The Ocean; Color Burst 7 - Purple B12: Majesty
Format: short story
Genre: family
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elros, Earendil
Pairings: n/a
Summary: It was the most thrilling thing, to sail away and watch the coastline of Middle-earth dwindle and fade into a dark line on the horizon, and then to vanish completely.

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moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O66 - Mary Oliver Card - “"We should take small, thoughtful steps. But bless us, we didn't", Russingon Card - Living on Middle-earth
Format: Ficlet (942 words)
Genre: Humor/Drama
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Fingon, Maedhros, Gil-galad
Pairings: Fingon/Maedhros
Author's Note: Title borrowed from Elizabeth Bishop.
Summary: Both versions of Gil-galad's parentage are true.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Elements of Elrond O72: Husband; The Second Age O75: Defeat of Sauron; Apothecary Garden B9: Pain/Willow Bark; Late Great Mary Oliver O72: If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Format: short story
Genre: het, gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Celebrian, Elrond
Pairings: future Celebrian/Elrond
Summary: Celebrian goes down to the river to gather willow bark.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Textual Ghosts 2 B14: Mother of Beorn; Apothecary Garden O66: lack of appetite/yarrow, I25: sleeplessness/valerian; Late Great Mary Oliver O67: Bless touching.
Format: ficlet
Genre: het, family
Rating: PG
Warnings: brief description of wounds
Characters: Beorn, OCs
Pairings: OMC/OFC (Beorn's parents)
Creator's Note: Names of OCs are of Anglo Saxon origin from behindthename.com, except for Grimbeorn which I took from Beorn's canonical son for his father.
Summary: Wise women were ever busy, be it for healing or for wisdom or for burials.

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independence1776

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: I16, Color Burst Green, balanced; N39, Late Great Mary Oliver, "…makes me take measure of myself, one iota pondering heaven."
Format: Chaptered
Genre: Crossover, gen
Rating: Teens
Warnings:None
Characters: Maglor
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): Links to previous chapters, story summary, and author's notes can be found here.
Summary: The sixth chapter of my Silm-Star Wars fusion; Maglor remembers.

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nienna324

B2MeM Prompts, Cards, and Numbers: N44: freeze your face off (In a Manner Of Speaking), B11: hell or high water (In a Manner Of Speaking, B10: Let’s talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs. (In the Words of Shakespeare), B12: A bonfire (Story Elements), B7: Sword and shield (Story Elements), I18: I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. (The Late, Great, Mary Oliver), O67: Irmo (In Your Dreams)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gap-filler, Angst
Rating: Mature to be safe
Warnings: brief moment of gore, OC death, canon-typical pervasive gloom
Characters: Galadriel, Angrod
Pairings: N/A
Summary: When I saw the ships burning in the distance, for a moment I thought it was some sort of celebration. For a moment it reminded me of the bonfires in springtime, and the grand holidays when all the children would dance together, spinning wildly. But then the fire grew too large and too bright to carry my wishful thinking, and I knew. I think we all knew, right then.
Creator’s Notes: Cútyulusse: Crescent of poplar (Quenya.) Credit for the name goes to the people of RealElvish.com
Galadriel, Angrod, the Helcaraxë etc... belong to J.R.R. Tolkien and the Tolkien Estate. I am merely playing with them. I apologize for the terrible title!
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elleth

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: N39 - quit, deep, lapse, coy (Four Words), One iota pondering heaven (The Late, Great Mary Oliver), Gifted (G is for Girl), Queen (Archetypes)
Format: Drabble
Genre: Femslash
Rating: Teens
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Galadriel
Pairings: Galadriel/Varda (implied/past)
Summary: Galadriel longs for the West.

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moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O67 - The Late Great Mary Oliver - “bless touching.”
Format: Ficlet (287 words)
Genre: Drama
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Oblique reference to suicide
Characters: Aerin, Morwen, Túrin
Pairings: Aerin/Morwen
Creator’s Notes (optional): A vague spin off to my older Aerin/Morwen story -- I imagine it takes place in the same timeline.
Summary: Aerin does her duty, no matter her anguish.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Color Burst 7: Purple N39: Nobility; Setting as Character B7: Getting Lost; The Late Great Mary Oliver G54: And the runaway honeysuckle that no one will ever trim again
Format: short story
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Boromir
Pairings: n/a
Creator's Notes: This is part of my series in which Eluréd and Elurín survive Doriath and everything that comes after.
Summary: When word reached Rivendell that Frodo was abroad and Gandalf was missing, it was Glorfindel's lot to take the road, and Eluréd and Elurín's to ride south.

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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.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Elements of Elrond B11: Survivor; The Second Age B12: Making Choices; The Late Great Mary Oliver B12: Meanwhile the wild geese...
Format: ficlet
Genre: family
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elrond, Elros
Pairings: n/a
Creator's Notes: Also written for the SWG's Love Actually challenge for the prompt: "For Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought; but Maglor's heart was sick and weary with the burden of the dreadful oath." ~ Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath
Summary: Elrond and Elros, out searching for Maglor, make camp on the beach.

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elleth

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G54 - Ear, afterthought, standard, executioner (Four Words), And the runaway honeysuckle (The Late, Great Mary Oliver) Mother of Celebrimbor (Textual Ghosts II)
Format: Drabble
Genre: Vignette
Rating: Teens
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Celebrimbor's Mother
Pairings: Celebrimbor's Mother/Curufin
Summary: Pelórë says farewell to the house she lived in.

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moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: N39 - The Late, Great Mary Oliver Card - “... makes me take measure of myself / one iota of pondering heaven”
Format: Ficlet (542 words)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Characters: Celebrimbor, Annatar
Pairings: Celebrimbor/Annatar
Summary: Celebrimbor takes a midnight stroll and has a pleasant meeting by moonlight.

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independence1776

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: N42: Darkness Darkness, slavery; B12: Color Burst Green, secure and Late Great Mary Oliver, wild geese are headed home again
Format: Chaptered
Genre: Crossover, gen
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Battle violence
Characters: Maglor, Eärendil, Elwing, Finarfin, OCs
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): Links to previous chapters, story summary, and author's notes can be found here. So I've more than doubled the story's wordcount; this chapter is nearly 5600 words. Also, I think, the last of the beginning flashback chapters.
Summary: The third chapter of my Silm-Star Wars fusion; the Battle at the Havens and Maglor returns to the Arda system.

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hhimring

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O72: If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much. (Card 115: The Late, Great Mary Oliver); G54: hwesta "breeze" (Card 186. Tengwar)
Format: double drabble
Genre: vignette, friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: Reference to canonical lost battle
Characters: Beleg, Mablung
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: I've only used the translation of the name of the letter from the Tengwar prompt. Also written for the following quotation from the SWG's Love Actually challenge:"But the Sindar had the fairer voices and were more skilled in music, save only Maglor son of Fëanor, and they loved the woods and the riversides; and some of the Grey-elves still wandered far and wide without settled abode, and they sang as they went." ~ Of the Return of the Noldor
Summary: After the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Beleg and Mablung arrive back in Doriath.

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moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G54 - The Russingon Card, “We hate Morgoth” and The Late Great Mary Oliver Card, “and the runaway honeysuckle that no one will trim again."
Format: Ficlet (451 words)
Genre: Romance
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Pairings: Fingon/Maedhros
Creator’s Notes: Honeysuckle is an amazing plant. Don't eat the berries.
Summary: Fingon drinks freely from honeysuckle wine, Maedhros tries to keep him in check, and in distant Angband, Morgoth gets the feeling people are talking shit about him.

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moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B12 - The Late, Great Mary Oliver Card - “Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.”
Format: Ficlet
Genre: humor
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes: It's such a beautiful poem, it almost makes me forget how ... annoying geese are. Almost.
Summary: The seasons changes. Maglor doesn't.

( This started off so poetically and then quickly went off the rails. Like Maglor's life. )

moetushie

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: "If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love
you very much.", The Late, Great Mary Oliver Card, O72
Format: Fic (2.4K)
Genre: Drama
Rating: Teen
Characters: Beleg Cúthalion, Túrin Turambar, Melian
Pairings: Beleg Cúthalion/Túrin Turambar
Creator’s Notes: This prompt reminded me so strongly how much I love this pairing that I resurrected an old WIP to dust it off and cry over it. If you wanna cry over these two .... please do.
Summary: Beleg and Túrin express their love in different ways, in the woods and out of it.

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