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B2MEM Challenge: Bingo 2012 - AU Lives/Dies G51
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Family
Rating: PG
Warning: N/A
Characters: Aragorn (Estel), Gilraen
Pairings: Arathorn II/Gilraen
Creator's Notes: In my Arnorverse (including, but not limited to “Isildurchil Dithen”), the Muse settled on using the “Iroquois kinship system” for the Northern Dúnedain. Parallel siblings of one’s mother and father (i.e. mother’s sister, father’s brother) are called ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Parallel cousins (children of parents’ parallel siblings – gender of cousin doesn’t matter) are treated as siblings. Only parents’ opposite-gendered siblings are ‘uncle’ and ‘aunt’, and their children are ‘cousins’. I may have to do some rewriting to reflect this, but hopefully it hasn’t been important enough before now to require serious revision.
Summary: In Gilraen’s room, in Imladris, sometimes it’s easy to forget that Estel isn’t to know who he is. Gilraen can’t resist telling him a little bit about home. For G51, “Arathorn father of Aragorn never dies.” I decided he was poisoned by the arrow wound instead, rendered comatose, and all three of them were brought to Imladris for protection.



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B2MeM Challenge: We know comparatively little about the lives of the Dunedain in the Third Age, and more often than not the focus is on the struggle of the Rangers in the Wild. But what about the women that are left behind to defend their homes? What about those women who choose the life of a Ranger? What sort of friendships and bonds form among them? Pretty much any fic about the lives of Dunedain ladies would make me happy.

gen/het/femslash/etc all welcome. – suzil

Format: Ficlet

Genre: Family

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Mention of non-consensual sexual activity, infidelity

Characters: Finduilas, Aragorn, Faramir, Ivorwen, Gilraen, OCs

Pairings: Denethor/Finduilas, Thorongil/Finduilas

Creators' Notes (optional): This is part of an AU where Faramir is Aragorn's son due to Ecthelion II's desire for a second grandson. He commands Finduilas to trick Thorongil into bed with her. This is mentioned, but the scene is not shown. It is an AU of my friend Susana's "Desperate Hours" AU and therefore uses her reasoning for how Aragorn could be Faramir's birth father.

This is a Prologue to "Isildurchil Dithen", where instead of (as Susana says in DH) Aragorn finding out his Steward is his son when the Ring War is over, he finds out when Faramir is a child.

Summary: Finduilas is dying. Her greatest love was born from her greatest sin. Now she is beyond saving - and beyond punishment - so she must provide for her five-year-old child with her deathbed confession. What will her onetime heart-brother, Captain Thorongil, do about this betrayal?



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