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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: B11, Echoes in the Water, Landscape, Of the Sea, Currents, Shirish, Snippets of Verse, Writer's Block Smash, Worldbuilding, Tolkien's Trees, Second Age 2, Relationship, Person vs. Self, Injuries or Other Ailments, Hurt/Comfort, Genre 1, Apothecary Garden
Format: ficlet
Genre: family
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: canon death 
Characters: Fastred of Greenholm, Elanor Gardner, Firiel Fairbairn, Elfstan Fairbairn, Faramir Took, Goldilocks Gardner, Samwise Gamgee, Rose Cotton
Pairings:
Creator’s Notes (optional): Thank you to Dreamflower for Miss Dora Baggins' Book of Manners and the Writing of Letters, as well as On Funerals sections, with which this story would not exist. 
Summary: Fastred of Greenholm, Warden of the Westmarch, gets some terrible news from Great Smials a few days after Yule.

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B2MeM Prompt, Card and Number: O72, Aspects of Aragorn, Color Burst Red, Color Burst Blue, Forgery, Hurt/Comfort, Roles and Names of Aragorn, Of The Sea, Snippets of Verse, Third Age Locations
Format: ficlet
Genre: hurt/comfort, family
Rating: PG
Warnings: Childhood illness, prejudice against disability causing family rearrangement (not personal prejudice, but succession concerns and such)
Characters: Aragorn, Elladan, Elrond, OCs
Pairings: Aragorn/Arwen, Faramir/Eowyn
Creator’s Notes (optional): Celebriel is Aragorn’s firstborn child and has cerebral palsy (like me) deforming her leg. Faramir and Eowyn are her foster parents.
Summary: Aragorn recalls various memories when dealing with the Ithilien twins’ illness in the Houses of Healing.

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