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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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)

Title: A Man Alone
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Denethor
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 4; fanfic100 #88, "School"
Word Count: 756
Rating: Teen for general despair
Summary: Denethor muses on how he became the man he is.

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Title: From the Ashes
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Faramir
Prompt: Fire prompt for fanfic100; prompt #1 for BMEM09
Word Count: 359
Rating: General
Summary: "We are fire-masters, we guardians of Ithilien." Faramir begins to see the truth in his father's words.

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Title: Diplomacy
Summary: An army marches on its stomach, and any empire requires taxes to meet its needs. Yet the question of who should be taxed, and in what degree, often touches on more emotional grounds. Faramir and Aragorn deal with a suggestion from one of the royal clerks.
Word Count: 1,767 words
Characters: Aragorn, Faramir, OC Gondorian
Timeline: c. 30 F.A.
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: For lindahoyland, who requested Faramir and Aragorn friendship fics. Also written as a big thank you for Tanaqui and Dwimordene, for the support they gave me in my recent academic endeavors.

The year 30, Fourth Age; Minas Tirith.

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Title: In Vino Veritas
Summary: So, a Gondorian and a Rohir walk into a bar....
Word Count: 927
Characters: Boromir, Theodred, OC Dol Amroth artisan
Timeline: 3010 TA (1410 SR) - set between Concealment and Miquan Melave
Rating: Teen, for drunkenness, (non-sexual) nekkidness, and the slightest smidgen of sexual suggestion
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for agape4gondor. She requested a Boromir/Theodred story, though I think this scene could just as easily be friendship as slash.

"A tattoo?" Faramir asked.

"I know that they practice this art in Gondor," Elfhelm said, as he untied a small bundle and set out the shining needles and tiny pots of pigment. "Did not your own brother sport a large tattoo of a horn on his – uh, backside?"

Faramir smiled wryly. "He had it done after a late-night revel in Dol Amroth, and he rued the deed when he woke on the morrow. Though the mark was in such a place that few would ever see it."

Someone made a strange sound, halfway between a laugh and a cough, and several of the Riders were grinning broadly. No small number of people had gazed upon that famous tattoo during Boromir’s visits to Edoras.

Title: Fresh Meat
Summary: Camp-fire talk, a few days out from Henneth Annûn. Anborn and Damrod have some fun at the expense of a new Ithilien Ranger.
Word Count: 500 + Notes
Characters: Faramir, Ithilien Rangers (Anborn, Damrod), minor character Ithilien Ranger (Derufin)
Timeline: c. 3010 TA (1410 S.R.) (bookverse)
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: written for tanaquilotr, who requested superstitions among the Ithilien rangers.

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Title: Fealty
Summary: Denethor considers the wisdom of one of his father's decisions.
Word Count: 200
Characters: Denethor (Ecthelion + Aragorn mentioned)
Timeline: c. 2970 TA (1370 SR) (bookverse)
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for roh_wyn, who requested Denethor reflecting on being steward, and for fliewatuet who requested Denethor and Thorongil.

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Title: Love Letters
Summary: Faramir learns that he does not know Éowyn quite as well as he thought.
Word Count: 300 + Notes
Characters: Faramir/Éowyn
Timeline: Fourth Age, bookverse
Rating: Teen, for (implied) m/f erotic content
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for rakshathedemon, who requested Faramir and Eowyn.

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Title: Sisterhood
Summary: It is common among the Rohirrim in the days before a wedding for mother and sisters to discuss certain matters with the bride to be. But who can Éowyn turn to?
Word Count: 400 + Notes
Characters: Éowyn, OC
Rating: Teen
Warnings: vague discussion of sexual themes. (not much; the teen rating is rather cautious)
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for rivrea, who requested Éowyn and wedding rites.

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Title: First Sight
Summary: The night after their wedding, Arwen marvels at the thing of beauty that is her husband.
Word Count: 250 + Notes
Characters: Aragorn/Arwen
Timeline: Midsummer, 3019 T.A. (1419 S.R.)
Rating: Teen
Warnings: erotic nudity
Beta: agape4gondor
Note: Written for just_ann_now, who requested "the first time Arwen sees her husband naked".

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Title: Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son - Part I
Rating: Teen
Warning(s): discussion of mature concepts
Summary: Denethor is one of the most-criticized characters in Tolkien fandom. Movie-inspired fanons have certainly not done him any favors, but he is disliked and even hated by fans who had read the books long before the movies came out. In this essay I attempt to address some of the most common criticisms against him, and develop a biography of what his life might have been like.

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I. INTRODUCTION

"Authority is not given to you, Steward of Gondor, to order the hour of your death. And only the heathen kings, under the domination of the Dark Power, did thus, slaying themselves in pride and despair, murdering their kin to ease their own death." (Gandalf, "The Pyre of Denethor," The Lord of the Ring)

Title: Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son - Part II
Rating: Teen
Warning(s): discussion of mature concepts
Summary: Denethor is one of the most-criticized characters in Tolkien fandom. Movie-inspired fanons have certainly not done him any favors, but he is disliked and even hated by fans who had read the books long before the movies came out. In this essay I attempt to address some of the most common criticisms against him, and develop a biography of what his life might have been like.

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II. DENETHOR: THE EARLY YEARS