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B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompt no. 20: Nocturne: a night-piece, music that evokes a nocturnal mood
Format: chaptered
Genre: family
Rating: PG13
Warnings: reference to canonical dysfunctional marriage
Characters: Ancalime and her son Anarion
Pairings: Ancalime/Hallacar
Creator’s Notes: Third chapter or epilogue of "In the Hills of Emerie". Timed to coincide with the first day of Legendarium Ladies April. Also incorporating a prompt for the Middle Earth Museum challenge (see below)
Summary: Ancalime's son Anarion has not learned anything of his mother's recent humiliation at his father's hands. But the effect on her does not pass him by.

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B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompts: no. 21. It was hushed and without music, as if one had died there not long since; for in Númenor in those days it was the part of men to play upon instruments, and the music that Ancalimë heard in childhood was the singing of women at work, out of doors, and away from the hearing of the White Lady of Emerië. (Unfinished Tales, “Aldarion and Erendis”).
Format: chaptered
Genre: childhood
Rating: PG
Warnings: dysfunctional family
Characters: Ancalime (with references to her mother Erendis and her grandmother Nuneth)
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: Also for the Middle-earth Museum. The prompt used for that is this doll. If all goes as planned, there will be a second chapter, set when Ancalime is older.
Summary: Young Ancalime sits and thinks about music and other things.
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