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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O75, Adjectival ABC, Beasts, Emotions, Emotions 2, Occupations, Poetic Forms, Smells, A Song and a Story, Talents and Skills, Third Age Locations
Format: poem, ficlet
Genre: family
Rating: PG
Warnings: parental abandonment
Characters: Zamin, Ancalime, Aldarion, Erendis
Pairings: Aldarion/Erendis (separated)
Creator’s Notes (optional): I read the story of Aldarion and Erendis here: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/documents/articles/Aldarion%20and%20Erendis.PDF in case you're unfamiliar. I'm not sure "rolling stone" is quite the right term for Aldarion, so I took some liberties with it for my story title.
Summary: With the King's Heir gone from Numenor these three years, the folk of Erendis' household worry for their lady and her daughter - Aldarion's own heir.


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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G57, Color Burst 3, Color Burst 6, Echoes in the Water, Food, Four Words, Landscape, Mirkwood the Great, Of the Sea, Snippets of Verse, Third Age Locations
Format: Drabble
Genre: Humor
Rating: PG, I think
Warnings: Mention of a character being drunk
Characters: Gimli, Mirkwood royals
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): I thought I might as well write something not sad for a change. Also, how did I manage to fit all today's claimed prompts into one thing this tiny?
Summary: Sometime in the early Fourth Age, Legolas brings his Elvellon to visit his father's Halls. This ensues during their Welcoming Feast.


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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O67, Landscape, Shirish, Snippets of Verse, Third Age Locations, Concerning Hobbits, Hobbit Lasses, Color Burst 1, Color Burst 5, Color Burst 8, 
Format: short story
Genre: family
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Characters: Samwise Gamgee, Elanor Gardner, Frodo Gardner, peripherally Rosie (Cotton) Gamgee and all the Gamgee-Gardner children except young Tolman.
Pairings: Sam Gamgee/Rosie Cotton
Creator’s Notes (optional): The ages of Sam and Rosie's children, and how they relate to equivalent human (physical) maturity is noted here, as described in Dreamflower's chart "Hobbit Ages".

Elanor - 20 (13), Frodo - 18 (12), Rose - 16 (10), Merry - 14 (8 ½ ), Pippin - 12 (7 ½-8), Goldilocks - 10 (6 ½), Hamfast - 9 (5 ½-6), Daisy - 8 (5), Primrose - 6 (3 ½-4), Bilbo - 5 (3), Ruby - 3 (18-20 months), Robin - 1 (8 months).

Summary: A final conversation between Sam and his eldest children before they depart for Gondor takes place in the study of Bag End.

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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O72, Aspects of Aragorn, Color Burst Red, Color Burst Blue, Forgery, Hurt/Comfort, Roles and Names of Aragorn, Of The Sea, Snippets of Verse, Third Age Locations
Format: ficlet
Genre: hurt/comfort, family
Rating: PG
Warnings: Childhood illness, prejudice against disability causing family rearrangement (not personal prejudice, but succession concerns and such)
Characters: Aragorn, Elladan, Elrond, OCs
Pairings: Aragorn/Arwen, Faramir/Eowyn
Creator’s Notes (optional): Celebriel is Aragorn’s firstborn child and has cerebral palsy (like me) deforming her leg. Faramir and Eowyn are her foster parents.
Summary: Aragorn recalls various memories when dealing with the Ithilien twins’ illness in the Houses of Healing.

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