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: 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: 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: 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: 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: As Little Might Be Thought
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Elros
Prompt: BMEM09, Day 6 - Music
Word Count: 861
Rating: Teen for adult themes
Summary: "For Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought; but Maglor's heart was sick and weary with the burden of the dreadful oath."

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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: When Winter Comes
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Faramir/Éowyn
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 3; Prompt #4, "Insides", for fanfic100.
Word Count: 549
Rating: Teen (PG-ish)
Summary: In which Faramir warms himself by the fire, and Éowyn remembers.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest. (The Talmud)

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: 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: Voyeurism
Summary: Grima observes Eowyn as she prepares Theoden's medicine.
Word Count: 200
Characters: Grima Wormtongue, Eowyn
Timeline: ~3016 T.A. (1416 S.R.), bookverse
Rating: Teen
Warnings: general ickiness, implied (nonconsensual) eroticism (m/f)
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for grey_wonderer, who requested Grima's thoughts as Eowyn carries out some task.

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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: Past Deeds
Summar: During the attack on Sirion, Maglor is reminded of past deeds.
Word Count: 300 + Notes
Characters: Maglor, OC
Timeline: First Age (Silmarillion canon)
Warnings: angst, violence
Beta: agape4gondor
Note: Written for rhyselle, who requested "an angsty drabble set during the sacking of the Havens at Sirion", but not being Elwing-centric.

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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

Title: Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son - Part III
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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III. DENETHOR'S CHARACTER STRENGTHS AND FLAWS

Title: Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son - Part IV
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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IV. DENETHOR DURING THE WAR OF THE RING

Title: Pride and Despair: A Defense of Ecthelion's Son - Part V
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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V. CONCLUSION: IMRAHIL'S FINAL WORD

Dwim asked for AU drabbles for her birthday. One AU scenario that I've seen attempted several times is Boromir living past Amon Hen - perhaps by taking the Ring. However, there are two scenarios that I have never seen attempted. And you know me - they just couldn't be left undone.

Be forewarned, these are a bit angsty - but this is Dwim's birthday we're talking about, and she taught me all I know on that topic, so perhaps it's fitting. :-)




Title: The Least of Rings
Rating: General
Word Count: 100
Characters: Boromir, Frodo
Summary: Boromir takes the ring.
Warnings: A.U.

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