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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Textual Ghosts 2 O75: Mother of Khamul; In the Words of Shakespeare O64: Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile; Setting as a Character B10: Magical or Poisonous Plants; Apothecary Garden O64: head cold/rose hip
Format: triple drabble
Genre: gen, vignette
Rating: PG
Warnings: mention of murder by poisoning; not graphic
Characters: OFC
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Lady Tanith is well known for her gardens and her potions.

 

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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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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Textual Ghosts 2 B7: Mother of Narvi and B10: Wife of Orodreth; The Second Age I16: Lindon
Format: fic
Genre: ficlet, gen
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: OCs
Pairings: n/a
Summary: You can't mine pearls, so Idun of Khazad-dûm goes to Lindon to trade for them.

 

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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Textual Ghosts 2 N42: Ioreth's Cousin; Apothecary Garden G48: Agitation/Lavender
Format: ficlet
Genre: epistolary, family
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Characters: Ioreth, OFC
Pairings: background OFC/OMC
Summary: Not long after Ioreth leaves Imloth Melui to study healing in Minas Tirith, her cousin writes to her.

 

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