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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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greatandgrey

B2MeM Prompt and Category:
Home is here, and familiar things;
A cup, a wooden bowl, a blanket,
Prayer, a gift for the god, and sleep.
(And music, says the harp,
And music.)
(Mary Stewart, “Rest Here, Enchanter”) [Initial]
Format: Short story
Genre: General
Rating: General
Warnings: N/A
Characters: Maglor
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): Many thanks to

seerofrage for the quick look-over! :D
Summary: Home is here. Like the sea that could have carried me home, I hold it in my hands.

Also found here at AO3.

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hhimring

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompt no. 10: Improvisation: the art or act of playing music, harmonies or variations that are composed on the spot without previously learning them; making it up as you go along
Format: chaptered
Genre: character study
Rating: PG13
Warnings: angst
Characters: Ancalime
Pairings: Ancalime/Hallacar
Creator’s Notes: This is the second chapter of the story that started with Mouth Music, but you can follow without having read the first part. It has now turned out that there will be a third chapter (or an epilogue) to this sequence. Overarching title is or will be: "In the Hills of Emerie".
Summary: Ancalime in the aftermath of Hallacar's declaration of love and the disturbing revelation that he is in truth a relative of hers who had taken on an assumed identity.
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nienna324

Prompt: "By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven." (The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor, Tolkien.) Initial prompt.
Format/Genre: Poetry
Rating: General
Warnings: N/A
Pairings: N/A
Summary: A poem/song about the stars, and the Great Journey.
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zdenka

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompt #9: “... a marching music began like solemn drums, and above the rolling beats and booms there welled voices singing high and strong.” (The Two Towers, “Treebeard”)
Daily prompt for March 4th, Musical Terms Bingo Card: Fuoco (Fire; con fuoco: with fire, in a fiery manner)
Format: ficlet
Genre: femslash, vignette
Rating: Teens
Warnings: implied character death
Characters: Entwives
Pairings: Entwife/Entwife
Creator’s Notes (optional): I hesitated over whether to call these characters Entwives when they’re not all married to (male) Ents, but “wife” originally just meant a woman, so I thought that Entwife could be the word for any adult female Ent.

This also fills a prompt for the femslashficlets Language of Flowers prompt table challenge: sunflower, meaning “loyalty and strong bonds between two people” and “nourishing yourself and others”.

Summary: The last stand of the Entwives and the burning of the Brown Lands.

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nienna324

B2MEM Prompt:"I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted."(Initial Prompt)
Format: Ficlet
Genre: General
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Flashback/Mentioned Suicide
Characters: Maglor, Maedhros
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Maglor is reunited with Maedhros, after a sundering of many centuries.

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hhimring

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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raiyana

B2MEM Prompts:
Aubade, a morning song
4. By the starlit mere of Cuiviénen, Water of Awakening, they rose from the sleep of Ilúvatar; and while they dwelt yet silent by Cuiviénen their eyes beheld first of all things the stars of heaven. (The Silmarillion, “Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor)
Characters: Fëanor, Nerdanel
Summary: The morning after their wedding, Fëanor learns that he can't fool his wife...
Format: Ficlet, gen, no warnings - I suppose there's implied sexytimes and nudity...

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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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zdenka

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial prompt #18, http://res.freestockphotos.biz/pictures/9/9950-seagulls-flying-over-the-beach-at-sunset-pv.jpg (Seagulls at sunset)
Format: short story (with a couple stanzas of poetry)
Genre: gen
Rating: Teens
Warnings: none
Characters: Tar-Míriel, original male character; also Amandil, Tar-Palantir, and some seagulls
Pairings: none
Creator’s Notes (optional):This is an extremely late fulfilment of something I promised to write for Huinare; her prompt involved Tar-Míriel and poetry. It’s been a fragmentary WIP for a while, but this year’s B2MeM inspired me to go back to it and finish it. Thanks to thinkatory for beta-reading.
Summary: As Sauron’s influence grows in Númenor, Míriel and a scholar of the Faithful discuss the translation of Elvish poetry.

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raiyana

Creator's note: I'm writing a mixed people party in Aman, and I needed a drinking song - so here you go ;)
Written to a traditional bacarolle type tune, because that's probably what the Teleri would do... Do I have bingo yet?

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: By hard fate was she born into such days, for she was gentle of heart and loved neither hunting nor war. Her love was given to trees and to the flowers of the wild, and she was a singer and a maker of songs. (Unfinished Tales, “Narn i Hîn Húrin”)
https://unsplash.com/photos/dh8ONmfQyQQ (sunrise waterfall)
Format:
Genre: adventure
Rating: PG-13
Warnings:
Characters: Penthronnil (OC), LOTRO characters
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): I wrote an interlude connecting the last chapter to this one: archiveofourown.org/works/13953198/chapters/32142792
Summary: Penthronnil, charged with slaying the goblins of Ered Luin, first goes forth to Limael’s Vineyard to see what damage the goblins have wrought there.

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raiyana

Prompt: Bingo card
Cadence: A melodic or harmonic configuration that creates a sense of resolution
Dolcissimo: Very sweetly
Prompt #3:
Over the mountains
And over the waves,
Under the fountains
And under the graves;
Under floods that are deepest,
Which Neptune obey,
Over rocks that are steepest,
Love will find out the way.
Genre: Romance?
Rating:Gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Ulmo, Uinen, Ossë, assorted creatures of the sea
Summary: Chapter 7of the Uinen & Maglor fic, Songs of the Sea, 2.8k words
The story on Ao3
Notes: This chapter was meant to be the resolution of the whole piece, but the Elrond & Maglor bit made it a bit too long(and works for FeanorianWeek tomorrow) so that'll be the next chapter instead :D
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independence1776

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Initial: Create a fanwork where a character crosses a river or the ocean.
Format: Ficlet
Genre: Family
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Characters: Maglor, Lalwen, a surprise
Pairings: None
Summary: Maglor receives an invitation during Númenor's seven hundredth founding anniversary.

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raiyana

Format: ficlet
Genre: Gen? Friendship? Something?
Rating:Gen
Warnings: none
Characters: Maglor, Uinen, Ossë, assorted creatures of the sea
Summary: Chapter 6 of the Uinen & Maglor fic, Songs of the Sea
Full story on Ao3

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hhimring

B2MeM Prompt and Category:
Initial prompt no. 11: The song of Fingon Elves yet sing,

captain of armies, Gnomish king,

who fell at last in flame of swords

with his white banners and his lords.

(The Lay of Leithian)
Daily prompt March 3:
And the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void. Never since have the Ainur made any music like to this music, though it has been said that a greater still shall be made before Ilúvatar by the choirs of the Ainur and the Children of Ilúvatar after the end of days. (The Silmarillion, “Ainulindale”)

Format: Drabble
Genre: family, friendship
Rating: PG
Warnings: Reference to canon threat of violence;
Characters: Fingon, Maedhros
Pairings: Fingon/Maedhros (pre-slash or bromance)
Creator’s Notes: Sneaking this into B2MeM by means of a "creative" take on the B2MeM prompts. This drabble incorporates three Tolkien Weekly prompts and is dedicated to Ziggy.
Summary: They had found each other easy to talk to. But then...

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: sailing West

13. Mostly Ulmo speaks to those who dwell in Middle-earth with voices that are heard only as the music of water. For all seas, lakes, rivers, fountains and springs are in his government; so that the Elves say that the spirit of Ulmo runs in all the veins of the world. (The Silmarillion, “Valaquenta”)
Format: fic
Genre: adventure
Rating: PG-13
Warnings:
Characters: Original characters, LOTRO characters
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): Well, Penthronnil’s not sailing West, but others are, so that fits…The tale of Penthronnil continues.
Summary: Penthronnil begins to do her part to aid the people of Ered Luin, beginning with the elves in Celondim, who have given her houseroom over the past month.

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: The song of Fingon Elves yet sing,
captain of armies, Gnomish king,
who fell at last in flame of swords
with his white banners and his lords.
(The Lay of Leithian)

The sound of running and falling water was loud, and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still lingered in Elrond's gardens. (Fellowship of the Ring, “Many Meetings”)
Format: short story (follows “Into Darkness Falls A Star”)
Genre: drama
Rating: PG-13 still, probably
Warnings:
Characters: Harthalin (LOTRO OC), Penthronnil (OC), Elrond,
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): And the saga of Penthronnil continues…
Summary: The tale of Penthronnil was not ended…

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: March 10: Fanwork Prompt:
http://res.freestockphotos.biz/pictures/1/1716-medieval-woman-playing-the-harp-pv.jpg (Medieval women playing the harp)

Improvisation: the art or act of playing music, harmonies or variations that are composed on the spot without previously learning them; making it up as you go along
Format: short story
Genre: drama
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: offscreen deaths, battle scenes, violence
Characters: Penthronnil (OFC), Harthalin (LOTRO), other LOTRO characters, Gil-galad, Isildur, Anarion, Elrond, Thranduil, Cirdan
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): LOTRO-based, so I disclaim the title, and what text is quoted from the High Elf Introduction.
Summary:
"In the Year 3434 of the Second Age, a great Alliance of Elves and Men assembled in defiance of the Dark Lord's will to conquer all the lands of Middle-earth. The High Elves, the blessed of Valinor who suffered the greatest wraths of Sauron and Morgoth the Enemy, now seek to ensure that his evil is forever banished from the world."

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kayleearafinwiel

B2MeM Prompt and Category: Create a fanwork that includes an animal that lives in or near the water (fish, whale, seabird, or whatever you like).

... a marching music began like solemn drums, and above the rolling beats and booms there welled voices singing high and strong. (The Two Towers, “Treebeard”)

Format: Ficlet
Genre: Mystery
Rating: PG-13
Warnings:
Characters: Eärwen, Eärendil, Elwing, Brandir (OC)
Pairings: Eärendil/Elwing
Creator’s Notes (optional): Score one for the randomizer again…And ‘Brandir’ was rather nonspecific, so I felt justified in adding mine and Emma’s OC here.
Summary: The sinking of Númenor had far-reaching consequences. They were felt even – perhaps especially – in the uttermost West.

'Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.' The Hobbit

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