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Comments are always welcome! I posted the stories I have written before 7/14/2007 over several days, and with so much posting in such a short time period, I may have made formatting errors or not completely tagged everything. I am especially interested in fixing these, so please feel free to tell me if you notice anything. I have tried to post older stories by year, so you will find the first posts in this journal are my older stories

Title: A Bird in the Hand
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Barahir (Fourth Age)
Prompt: BMEM09 Days 27, 29, & 30; fanfic100 prompt #3, ends
Word Count: 2,132
Rating: Teen for violence
Summary: In the Fourth Age, Gondor grapples with the legacy of Numenor that was.

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Title: Tomorrows
Fandom: Lord of the rings
Characters: Faramir
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 31; fanfic100 prompt #65, Passing.
Word Count: 100
Rating: General
Summary: For years now, Faramir has longed for tomorrows.

Multimedia Note: A bit obvious, perhaps, but I had the Beatles song Yesterday in mind when writing this.

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Title: Wishing
Fandom: Lord of the rings
Characters: Aragorn
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 28; fanfic100 prompt #55, spirit
Word Count: 200
Rating: General
Summary: In Harad, Aragorn muses on hope.

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Title: Heroes
Fandom: The Hobbit
Characters: Bilbo
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 9
Word Count: 150
Rating: General
Summary: A tweenage Bilbo thinks back on the stories he learned as a child.

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Title: Tutelage
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Manwe, Varda
Prompt: BMEM09 Day (I think?) 26
Word Count: 573
Rating: General
Summary: Manwe Sulimo, on history's accidents and lessons learned.

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Title: Birthright
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Denethor
Prompt: BMEM09 Days 23-25; fanfic100 prompt #82, if
Word Count: 554
Rating: General
Summary: Denethor would have made a fine second-son; but that was not to be his fate.

Multimedia Note: For the interested, my "soundtrack" for this song was PFR's song Name. Not the lyrics so much, but parts of the song has the right "feel" for how I envision Denethor in this song.

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Title: Heresy
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Maedhros
Prompt: BMEM Day 22
Word Count: 791
Rating: Teen (for character death)
Summary: "The cruel servants of Celegorm seized his young sons and left them to starve in the forest. Of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath."
Author's Notes: Also written for mistry89, who long ago asked me for an Elured + Elurin story.

Multimedia Note: Sorta kinda inspired by PFR's song Wonder Why (lyrics). This doesn't exactly evoke the mood I'd want while reading this piece, but the lyrics definitely captures Maedhros's character as I see it - at least at this late date.

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Title: In the Beginning
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 21
Word Count: 300
Rating: General
Summary: A professor, a typewriter, a rainstorm... and a beginning.

Multimedia Note: Writing this, I had Schubert's Ständchen in mind as the First Song.

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Title: Lake of Fire
Fandom: The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Characters: Balin, Thorin, Thror
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 20
Word Count: 1268
Rating: Teen for violence, dark themes
Summary: "So the rumour of the wealth of Erebor spread abroad and reached the ears of the dragons, and at last Smaug the Golden, greatest of the dragons of his day, arose and without warning came against King Thrór and descended on the Mountain in flames."

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Title: A Game Well-Played
Fandom: Lord of the rings
Characters: Denethor, Faramir, OCs (Boromir mentioned)
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 19; fanfic100 #27, "parents"
Word Count: 1,711 + Notes
Rating: General
Summary: On lessons learned across the chess-board.

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Title: Turtles All the Way Down
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Aragorn, OFC Haradri
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 18; fanfic100 prompt #34, "not enough"
Word Count: 1673 + Notes
Rating: Teen for mature themes, discussion of M-e religion, briefest hint of sexuality
Summary: Often the greatest deeds, those which history most remembers, are not the most difficult. Aragorn finds his limits tested in Harad.

Author's Notes: A prequel to "Where the Stars Are Strange," though you do not need to read that drabble series to read this.

Multimedia: Continuing the tradition of offering a soundtrack to reading, I wrote this to the tune of Matsiyahu's song "King without a Crown." (YouTube /// Lyrics)

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Title: Country Comforts
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Ioreth, OC Gondorian
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 17; fanfic100 #14 (green)
Word Count: 579
Rating: General
Summary: It's not always easy being different. A young Ioreth has a hard day.

Author's Notes: As an added challenge to the above, I'm trying to improve my dialect skills (i.e.: spell as it's pronounced without going totally Huck Finn on my reader. Would appreciate knowing if the dialect-writing is too much, not enough, inconsistent, etc.

Multimedia: For the interested, I listed to Entre Olas by Juan Serrano to get in the mood for writing Ioreth. You might find it good to listen to while reading. I don't know if it makes sense musicologically/historically, but I imagine songs like this as being the "Country-Western" of Gondor's music scene.

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Title: Where the Stars Are Strange
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Aragorn, OC Haradri
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 16 - Limits; fanfic100 prompt #71, "broken"
Word Count: 5 x 100
Rating: Teen for adult themes
Summary: "Beyond the towns and caravans there is no duty save one." An encounter in the deserts of Harad.





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Title: Walking Down Narrow Streets
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 15
Word Count: 2,248 + Notes
Rating: Teen for implied sexuality
Summary: What if Tolkien's writings really were translations rather than original creations? Late one night, a certain professor wanders around Oxford, searching for answers.
Author's Notes: Not A.U., not really, but not exactly a comfortable read either. Touches on themes of Christian belief and homosexuality (appropriate to the time).

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Title: Spring's First Thaw
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Éowyn (Faramir/Éowyn implied)
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 14; fanfic100 #62
Word Count: 808
Rating: Teen (for adult concepts)
Summary: In the Houses of Healing, Faramir gave Éowyn a fine mantle that had once belonged to his mother. Just what did Éowyn think of this gift?

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Title: House Hunting
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Fatty Bolger
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 13
Word Count: 515
Rating: General
Summary: In which Fatty confronts his greatest fear, and comes to a decision. (Post-Quest.)
Author's Notes: Thanks to the lovely ladies over at LOTR_Community_GFIC (especially dreamflower02) for their help on Fatty canon. *blows kisses*

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Title: Stranger in a Strange Land
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: OC Gondorian
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 12; fanfic100 prompt #22
Word Count: 741
Rating: Teen for adult themes
Summary: And in the fifteenth year of his reign, the king Telcontar did declare a curfew on all men of Haradric descent, whether in whole or any sizeable part. For in that year many such men were beaten at night, and no few died, and the king was loath to allow such things … (from The Annals of Telcontar)
Author's Notes: The OC in this piece is from my story "Diplomacy." But I intend this piece as self-sufficient without knowledge of that one.

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Title: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Imrahil + Family; Denethor; OC Gondorian
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 11; fanfic100 prompt "Years"
Word Count: 1,007 + Notes
Rating: General
Summary: An old family tradition returns to haunt Imrahil.
Author's Notes: Kind of a sequel to my ficlet "Giving Gifts," but should be fully understandable without you having read that piece.

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Title: Catharsis
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Boromir
Prompt: BMEM Day 10; fanfic100 prompt #51
Word Count: 857
Rating: General
Warning: Deals with (canonical) character death, and with spiritual themes.
Summary: In "Windows on the West", Faramir tells us that Boromir's funeral boat traveled down Anduin and at last reached the sea. But who's to say it stopped there?

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Thus it was that great mariners among them would still search the empty seas, hoping to come upon the Isle of Meneltarma, and there to see a vision of things that were. But they found it not… (“The Akallabêth,” The Silmarillion)