b2mem | Entries tagged with genre:gapfiller

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... )

elwinfortuna

B2MeM Prompt: March 2: A Hopeless Dawn
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Character death
Characters: Andreth, Emeldir, Morwen, Aegnor
Pairings: Aegnor/Andreth, Emeldir/Barahir
Creator’s Notes (optional): The title is from “Time Stands Still At The Iron Hill” by Blind Guardian.
Summary: As the Battle of Sudden Flame rages on, both Aegnor and Andreth meet their fate.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Late Great Mary Oliver I18: "I don't know exactly what a prayer is."; Setting as a Character G50: animal guide
Format: ficlet
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Beren, a deer
Pairings: n/a
Summary: "but [Beren] became the friend of birds and beasts, and they aided him..."

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nialoke

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Poetic Language N42: Synecdoche, Poetic Language O72: Rhythm, Hurt/Comfort 2 B12 Tragic Misunderstanding
Format: Ficlet
Genre: gapfiller,
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canon-typical violence
Characters: Carcharoth
Pairings: Carcharoth/Ilmarë
Creator’s Notes (optional):This grew out of my reading the description for Synecdoche - "a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole" and somehow immediately thinking of Beren's hand with the Silmaril being dug out of Carcharoth belly. Then when I started writing, I got derailed by thinking to much about Carcharoth, and this happened.
Summary:Lulled to sleep by Luthien's spell, Carcharoth dreams.

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hhimring

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B9: anto: “mouth”, N44: anca: “jaws” (both from Card 186. Tengwar); also N45: citizen of this fallen city (Card 127. Mary Oliver (1935-2009))
Format: ficlet
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Reference to canonical long-term imprisonment
Characters: Fingon, Finrod
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: For the purposes of this ficlet, in the prompt "citizen of this fallen city", the fallen city is taken to be Armenelos. The story is to some extent inspired by a map drawn by bunn of Tirion and her comments on the map.
Summary: There is some suggestion that Tirion continued to be inhabited after the fall of Numenor. How did its inhabitants feel about the fact that Pharazon's army was buried so close to the city?

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Elements of Elrond O72: Husband; The Second Age O75: Defeat of Sauron; Apothecary Garden B9: Pain/Willow Bark; Late Great Mary Oliver O72: If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
Format: short story
Genre: het, gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Celebrian, Elrond
Pairings: future Celebrian/Elrond
Summary: Celebrian goes down to the river to gather willow bark.

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nienna324

B2MeM Prompts, Cards, and Numbers: N44: freeze your face off (In a Manner Of Speaking), B11: hell or high water (In a Manner Of Speaking, B10: Let’s talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs. (In the Words of Shakespeare), B12: A bonfire (Story Elements), B7: Sword and shield (Story Elements), I18: I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. (The Late, Great, Mary Oliver), O67: Irmo (In Your Dreams)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gap-filler, Angst
Rating: Mature to be safe
Warnings: brief moment of gore, OC death, canon-typical pervasive gloom
Characters: Galadriel, Angrod
Pairings: N/A
Summary: When I saw the ships burning in the distance, for a moment I thought it was some sort of celebration. For a moment it reminded me of the bonfires in springtime, and the grand holidays when all the children would dance together, spinning wildly. But then the fire grew too large and too bright to carry my wishful thinking, and I knew. I think we all knew, right then.
Creator’s Notes: Cútyulusse: Crescent of poplar (Quenya.) Credit for the name goes to the people of RealElvish.com
Galadriel, Angrod, the Helcaraxë etc... belong to J.R.R. Tolkien and the Tolkien Estate. I am merely playing with them. I apologize for the terrible title!
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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Color Burst 7: Purple N39: Nobility; Setting as Character B7: Getting Lost; The Late Great Mary Oliver G54: And the runaway honeysuckle that no one will ever trim again
Format: short story
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Elrond, Eluréd, Elurín, Boromir
Pairings: n/a
Creator's Notes: This is part of my series in which Eluréd and Elurín survive Doriath and everything that comes after.
Summary: When word reached Rivendell that Frodo was abroad and Gandalf was missing, it was Glorfindel's lot to take the road, and Eluréd and Elurín's to ride south.

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lirin_lirilla

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Languages of Arda - Easterling (G54)
Format: ficlet
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: n/a
Characters: Original Easterling character, King Elessar
Pairings: n/a
Summary: An Easterling is brought before the King of Gondor.

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bunn

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Birch, Tolkien's Trees, I20
Format: short story
Genre: gapfiller
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Characters: Legolas, Gimli, Fladrif
Pairings: Legolas & Gimli
Creator’s Notes:
Summary: Just a dwarf and his elf friend going for a walk in Fangorn Forest after the fall of Sauron.

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starspray

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: The Second Age O68: Downfall of Numenor, & B11: Mourning Losses; Elements of Elrond O68: Adviser
Format: Short Story
Genre: gen, gapfiller
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Characters: Elrond, Gil-galad, OCs, Elendil
Pairings: n/a
Summary: The storm that drowned Numenor reached the coast of Middle-earth too.

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linaewen

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O72: Field of Cormallen (Alternate Viewpoints)
Format: Drabble
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Imrahil
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): I chose this prompt to write during the 2016 B2MeM Memories event, where all previous prompts were available for use, but I never managed it. Glad I had another chance at writing it!
Summary: Imrahil is impressed by the halflings' response to their first sight of the King.

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mybluerose

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: Story Elements & Rivendellcards; Gathering Eggs & Imladris – G48
Format: Short Story
Genre: Gapfiller, General
Rating: General
Warnings: Mentions of Illness and Death
Characters: Elrond
Pairings: None
Summary: Elrond had never seen any place more beautiful in spring than this riven valley.

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Current Mood: artistic

independence1776

B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: G48, Song Lyrics 1, "It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine."
Format: chaptered (will end up either as a novella or novel by the end of the month)
Genre: Gen, crossover
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Choose Not to Warn overall, minor character death this chapter
Characters: Maglor, OCs
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): This is a Silmarillion-Star Wars fusion. The rating may change to Mature/Adult as the story goes on; the warnings will change from chapter to chapter and thus the story functions as a general principle under Choose Not to Warn. The fic will remain gen.

For Star Wars canon: this relies mainly on the Prequel and Original Trilogies, plus a little bit of material from pre-New Jedi Order Legends and possibly the first three seasons of Rebels. I have not seen Clone Wars, so nothing from there will be in here, nor will material from other Disney canon. For The Silmarillion: the First Age timeline has been greatly compressed to fit within the Star Wars universe, from about six hundred years to three weeks aka the Imperial invasion. Other changes made to Silmarillion material are likewise deliberate.

Summary: Two years after the Empire's birth, Imperial forces led by Darth Vader devastated the Arda system. A few hundred Quendi fled the system's takeover. Among them is Maglor Fëanorian, the lone survivor of his Jedi-trained House. He has spent the past three years hiding in plain sight as a singer for a starliner cruise company. Now he is about to strike off on his own as an independent cargo pilot, unsure of what the future will bring him.

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mybluerose

B2MeM Prompt and Category: March 9th prompt, create a fanwork that includes an animal that lives in or near the water.
Format: Short Story
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: General
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Salmar
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): Because Ulmo’s Maiar count as sea creatures. Really.
Summary: How Beleriand ended up underwater.

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Current Mood: cheerful

hhimring

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompts: no. 8. Then I thought in my heart that we drew near to the Sea; for wide was the water in the darkness, and sea-birds innumerable cried on its shores. (Return of the King, “The Last Debate”); no. 15. Create a fanwork where a character crosses a river or the ocean. Daily prompt: March 18: Musical term: Divisi: Divided (i.e. in a part in which several musicians normally play exactly the same notes they are instead to split the playing of the written simultaneous notes among themselves).
Format: drabble, triple ( 3 x 100 in MS Word)
Genre: gapfiller, family
Rating: PG13
Warnings: canon-typical angst (see also summary)
Characters: Amras, Feanor, followers of Feanor
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: Also incorporating prompts of the Tolkien Weekly Vocalization Challenge and written for Feanorian Week. But no sea-birds, sorry!
Summary: Amras at Losgar. I don't follow the version of the story where one of the twins accidentally gets burned alive by his father, but...

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hhimring

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompt no. 22: ...but the water before them was dark, with only a few curling wisps like steam among the reeds by the bank. (Fellowship of the Ring, “A Conspiracy Unmasked”)
Format: Drabble (100 words)
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: Teens
Warnings: reference to character death
Characters: Denethor of the Nandor (later of Ossiriand) [Request to tag mod: please check newly created character tag.]
Pairings: n/a
Creator’s Notes: I transferred the scene of the B2MeM prompt from the Brandywine to the Anduin, as Oshun’s new bio of Lenwe speaks of the Nandor dwelling by the Anduin before they left for Ossiriand and the current Tolkien100 prompt happens to be “The Great River”.
Summary: Denethor decides to lead his people west into Beleriand.

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oloriel.livejournal.com

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Red Path, "when he first stood near her and recognized her dimly through the shadows, like one who, at the beginning of the month, either sees or thinks he has seen the moon rise through clouds." ~Vergil, The Aenid
Format: Short story
Genre: Gapfiller, sort of?
Rating: General
Warnings: a Vanya doing something exciting? Also, I suppose there's a kind of male gaze thing going on, though not in the usual way.
Characters: Indis, Finwë, Fëanor
Pairings: Finwë/Míriel on the cusp of turning into Finwë/Indis
Creator’s Notes (optional): I took a turn left on the last Act of Kindness field of the green path I'd already completed, taking me onto the red. Not that I have any hopes of finishing that, but there's still some March left, right? Also fits this month's "Strength and Beauty" challenge.
Summary: Fëanor first sees Indis as she practices a traditional Vanyarin spear-dance. Fascination turns into life-long antipathy.

"The Golden Dancer" at the SWG archive.

fernstrike

Prompt and Path: “On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, On crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun.” JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit. Purple path.
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Gen/Gapfiller
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions of canon-typical violence
Characters: Dwarves; Thingol; Oropher; Thranduil; Doriathrim; OC; Mablung
Pairings: None
Creator’s Notes (optional): This is something of a footnote in my fic series 'The Elvenking’, and the half in non-italics will make its way into a future chapter of this story. You don't need to read it (I would love if you did!), but all you need to know is that in that story’s chronology, Thranduil was born in Doriath, spent his early years as a marchwarden and soldier, and is about 200 years old at the time of the Sack of Menegroth.
Summary: The Silmaril is set in the Nauglamir, and nothing good comes of it on either side of the ensuing conflict.

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starbrow.livejournal.com

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Red Path, Despair
Format: Short Story
Genre: Friendship, Gap Filler
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Characters: Nerdanel, Anairë, Eärwen
Pairings: mentions of Fëanor/Nerdanel
Creator's Notes: This fic takes place before the events at Alqualondë.
Summary: Anairë and Eärwen come to Nerdanel's house shortly after the departure of their husbands and children.
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