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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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B2MeM Challenge: N-43: Cove (Landscape), Sleet (Weather), Women of Numenor (Women of the Silmarillion)
Format: Vignette
Genre: Character Study
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Angst. Or make that: Fear?
Characters: Erendis, Zamin (also Almarian)
Pairings: Erendis/Aldarion
Summary: Erendis has finally given up on her errant husband. At least that is what she says. So she should be feeling better now, right? 

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