b2mem | Entries tagged with format:short story

B2MeM Prompt: Daily prompt 6, "Finish a WIP fanwork"; Generator, "finishing a book, song, or other creative work"; 2019 prompt G48: Maglor Through History, 'The Death of Gil-galad'
Format: Short story
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor; Original Male Character
Summary: A bard of Annúminas cannot find the right melody for his song - but help is waiting in the shadows.
Creator’s Notes: The bard of Arnor writing the Lay is originally

bunn's headcanon, which I have adopted.

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mybluerose

B2MeM Prompt: March 26^th: End your story with a line of dialogue.
Format: Short Story
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Finrod, Angrod, Fingon, Turgon
Pairings: Cannon pairings mentioned
Summary: In Valinor before the Darkening, Finrod has interesting news to share with his brother and cousins.
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Current Mood: cheerful

starspray

B2MeM Prompt: Daily: partly open blue door
Format: short story
Genre: gen, crossover
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Maglor, Roverandom
Pairings: n/a
Note: This story follows on from the fic I wrote for last year's TRSB, Air All Full of Singing.
Summary: Roverandom catches up with friends, both canine and otherwise.

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sasha_honeypalm

Prompt: March 3, "Think of something that happened to you today and write down the first thing that comes to mind. Start your fanwork with your character having a similar experience or performing a similar task."
Format: short story
Rating: gen
Warnings: n/a
Characters: OFC, Finduilas
Pairings: none (really) (none intentional, anyway)
Creator's Notes: Feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Summary: On the eve of the War of Wrath, a reborn Nando isn't sure where she belongs.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt: Daily: Create a fanwork that is completely or partly set in the afterlife, or that explores beliefs about the afterlife among a culture or group on Arda.; "The Dreaming Tree" by Dave Matthews Band
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: pg
Warnings: canonical character death
Characters: Mandos, Dior Eluchíl, Nimloth
Pairings: Dior/Nimloth
Note: Also written for the SWG March Soundtrack challenge, for the music prompt "Swan of Tuonela" by Jean Sibelius. This also takes place in my ‘verse where Nellas rescues Eluréd and Elurín.
Summary: Dior comes to Mandos, and must decide how he will leave it.

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B2MeM Prompt: Daily: All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. -Walt Whitman, excerpt from "Song of Myself" ; Generator first line: CHARACTER tripped over a root and hissed a curse.
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: general
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elrond
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Dor Firn-i-Guinar did not sink with the rest of Beleriand, and it is a place heavy with memory.

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lilith_lessfair

Prompt: Very loose use of the song prompt: “The Dreaming Tree” by Dave Matthews Band (Use the title, lyrics, song, or a combination as inspiration for your fanwork: https://genius.com/Dave-matthews-band-the-dreaming-tree-lyrics):

Remembered Mother's words
There beneath the tree
"No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby"

Format: Writing
Genre: Gen., Alternate Universe
Ratings: Gen.
Warnings: Alternate Universe: Gender Bending
Characters: Celebrimbor, Mairen (Lady!Sauron)
Pairings: none really, but their too-complicated friendship is very much a feature of this.
Summary: Changes in the season from summer to fall and fall to winter cause Celebrimbor to remember his childhood in Valinor.

As the summer slid towards fall, Mairen had begun to notice changes in Tyelperinquar’s mood. ( Read more... )

lilith_lessfair

Prompt: Photo prompt: Milky Way and person next to a lake (https://pixabay.com/photos/milky-way-human-lake-dreams-4500469/)

Format: Writing
Genre: Gap Filler
Ratings: Gen.
Warnings: Reference to canonical character death.
Characters: Galadriel, Celebrimbor
Pairings: the ever-unrequited Celebrimbor/Galadriel
Summary: Galadriel speaks with her cousin on the shores of Lake Mithrim after the crossing of the Helcaraxë.

Artanis lay upon a tall flat rock, the top edge of which, for the lower portions had been worn away by the water below them, extended from the rocky beach over water’s edge, and looked at the stars above. ( Read more... )

lilith_lessfair

Prompts: death via the prompt generator. It might also be loosely read in terms of the March 8 prompt “the aftermath of a disaster” if one wants to read the fall of Eregion as such a disaster.
Format: Writing
Genre: Character Study
Ratings: Gen.
Warnings: Reference to canonical character death
Characters: Galadriel, Celebrimbor, Maedhros, Fingon, Finrod
Pairings: unrequited Galadriel/Celebrimbor
Summary: Galadriel remembers her cousin after his death.

She had felt the moment he’d died, at the hand of the one he’d trusted and chosen over her. She had felt it, despite the distance, as she had felt the death of her brother. She felt it as a fading of the light, a loss of it and of warmth, not unlike the days following the death of the trees, the world suddenly gone cold and dark.

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ladybrooke

B2MeM Prompt: March 5 prompt - picture of a partly open blue door
Format: Short Story
Genre: Character Study
Rating: General
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Nimloth, Fingolfin
Pairings: Anairë/Fingolfin, Anairë/Nimloth, pre-Fingolfin/Nimloth
Creator’s Notes (optional): Part of a series about these three and Dior, important bit to know is that Anairë and Nimloth got together while Fingolfin was still in the Halls.
Summary: Fingolfin decided he would not keep his wife and her lover apart.

He had not expected, though perhaps he should have, that he would fall for Nimloth too.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt: Daily Prompt: “He thought he had come to the end of his adventure, and a terrible end, but the thought hardened him.” ; Generator Prompts: ending: death of a leader, first line: LOCATION burned.
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Major Character Death, Violence, Second Kinslaying in general
Characters: Dior, Celegorm
Pairings: n/a
Summary: “There fell Celegorm by Dior’s hand…but Dior was slain also.”

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tehhumi

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Keep it in the family - Maedhros x Maglor x Fingon N45, Maedhros x Fingon B9
Format: Short Story
Genre: Dark fic
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Rape, coerced sex, unhealthy relationship, self-blame, gaslighting, cheating, cousin incest, sibling incest
Characters: Maedhros, Maglor, Fingon
Pairings: Maedhros/Maglor, Maedhros/Fingon
Creator’s Notes (optional): Please heed the warnings, this story contains Dark!Maedhros
Summary: After Angband, Maedhros sees relationships so much more simply.

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lindahoyland

B2MeM Prompt:.N37 Hurt Comfort 2- I thought you were dead, Colour Burst 5- Blue – ice. Person vs self-Test anxiety. Apothecary's Garden – Wound bleeding/ buckthorn
Format: short story
Genre: angst, h/c, drama
Warnings:injuries and blood
Characters:Aragorn, Faramir, Arwen,OMCS, OFCS
Pairings:Aragorn/Arwen, Faramir/Éowyn, OMC/OFC
Creators notes: Tahir is a good friend of Faramir's
Summary:The Kha Khan's visit causes headaches for Aragorn, Faramir and Tahir.

Link to story on LJ
lindahoyland.livejournal.com/1121608.html

sasha_honeypalm

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B15 (Crackfic: wingfic)
Format: short story
Genre: wingfic, crossover
Rating: g
Warnings: none
Characters: Feanor & Sons Of
Pairings: none
Creator’s Notes 1: more or less based on A.S. Kline's translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis (ie, the first result that came up on Google)
Creator’s Notes 2: I didn't have time to get this beta'd, so any concrit is extremely appreciated.
Summary: A brash, brilliant elf crashes and burns. A crossover with Greek Mythology.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Setting as a Character O68: A Cave or Hole, I24: Closed-in Spaces; Late Great Mary Oliver B15: I have become the friend of the enemy, whoever that is; In the Words of Shakespeare G50: Pardon's the word to all; Apothecary Garden B15: Sore eyes/eyebright
Format: short story
Genre: gen
Rating: PG
Warnings: non graphic discussion of injuries
Characters: Elured, Elurin, OCs
Pairings: n/a
Summary: Elured and Elurin are looking for the source of the River Langwell when they get distracted by a landslide.

BINGO on the Setting as Character card!

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tehhumi

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Keep it in the Family: Maedhros/Fingon/Finrod O67; Song Lyrics 2: Why would a star, a star ever be afraid of the dark? O67; Cause of Death: Suicide I25, Blood Loss G57, Drowning I16, Torture B9, Poison I18, Shock O72, Illness O66, Dehydration B15
Format: Short story
Genre: Slash
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Cousin incest, somewhat graphic discussion of death and injury
Characters: Maedhros, Finrod, Fingon
Pairings: Maedhros/Fingon/Finrod
Summary: There's a masquerade ball in Tirion for the Returned, with a slightly morbid theme.
Creator’s Notes: I use 'Valinorean' here to mean those who did not go to Beleriand until the War of Wrath, as distinct from the Noldorin Exiles who are also Calaquendi.
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oloriel

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number:
On the Emotions card, B14 (Pain), I18 (Grief), O64 ( Horror) and O68 (Apprehension);
on the Fëanatics card, B10 (Unjust exile);
on the Mary Oliver (1935-2019) card, B11 (the rumpled sea), N45 (citizen of this fallen city) and G51 (light wrapping itself around us);
on the Person vs. Self card, B14 (crippled by worry), N32 (doing the right thing (when it’s really hard)), N45 (overcoming trauma) and O64 (fear of failure);
and on the Tolkien Quotes card, I16 (We also are daughters of the great, and we have wills and courage of our own) and I24 (It reminds me of the roses of Imloth Melui when I was a lass).
Format: Short Story
Genre: Drama
Rating: Mature-ish
Warnings: Some upsetting content, mentions of death (animal and human), and suicidal ideation.
Characters: OFC (Elendil's unnamed wife), Elendil
Pairings: Elendil and his wife, technically, but it's not exactly at the forefront.
Creator’s Notes (optional): I've been meaning to write this story ever since I saw James Turner Mohan's sketch "Out of the Sea I am Come". B2MeM finally gave me the impetus to do so. Also written with the "Hidden Figures" challenge and Legendarium Ladies' April in mind, inspired specifically by an old prompt from 2017, Shipwreck on the Rossbeigh Beach by Eric70. Also also vaguely inspired by Peter Gabriel's song Here Comes The Flood.
Oof, that's a lot of preamble for a short story.
Summary: Vëandis, formerly Lady of Andúnië, has been shipwrecked in Middle-earth. Now she and the other survivors of the Downfall have to find the strength to carry on.

"Out of the Great Sea" on SWG

oloriel

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number:
On the Fëanatics card, 072 (Fëanor: saviour of Middle-earth), I18 (In Beleriand... freedom fighter), B14 (The war of Telerin Aggression) and I25 (Knight in shining armor);
on the Person vs. Self card, I16 (peer pressure), I24 (making tough choices) and N44 (self-doubt);
on the Emotions card, N44 (amusement);
and on the Mary Oliver 1935-2019 card, G55 (perfect imperial distance).
Format: Short Story
Genre: Character Study? sort of
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Discussing of canon-typical violence in the most vague terms
Characters: Erestor, Aragorn
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): Inspired by Lordnelson100's fic Untended and Tolkien's "Notes on Motives in The Silmarillion" (published in Morgoth's Ring).
Summary: Young Aragorn discusses Noldorin history with Erestor, touching upon matters of good and evil, tough choices, and how to deal with mistakes.

"The Good and the Bad" on SWG

lindahoyland

B2MeM Prompt: G 55 Apothecary's Garden – Lady's Mantle/cramps. Archetypes - Wise animal
Format: short story
Genre: h/c, friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Characters: OFCS, Éowyn.
Pairings: Éowyn/Faramir, OMC/OFC
Creator’s Notes (optional) Adiva is a recurring character in several of my stories. Elbeth is another of my recurring OCS and entirely my own invention. I have no idea if Windfola was one of the Mearas or not.
Summary: Éowyn comforts an ailing Adiva.

Link to story on LJ
lindahoyland.livejournal.com/1120657.html

starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: The Second Age I18: Numenor, N32: Elros; Late Great Mary Oliver N39: "...makes me take measure of myself, one iota pondering heaven", O66: "We should take small thoughtful steps. But, bless us, we didn't."; Setting as a Character O66: The Ocean; Color Burst 7 - Purple B12: Majesty
Format: short story
Genre: family
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elros, Earendil
Pairings: n/a
Summary: It was the most thrilling thing, to sail away and watch the coastline of Middle-earth dwindle and fade into a dark line on the horizon, and then to vanish completely.

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