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: 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: 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: 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: A Rose by Any Other Name
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Sam Gamgee (Sam/Rose implied
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 2 - tedious work
Word Count: 200
Rating: General
Summary: Sam deals with one of Bilbo's whims.

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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: Mathoms
Summary: One autumn night in Rivendell, Aragorn pays a visit to Bilbo.
Word Count: 679 + Notes
Characters: Aragorn, Bilbo
Timeline: c. 3006 T.A. (1406 S.R.) - five years after Long-expected Party
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: for radbooks, who asked for Aragorn and Bilbo, with the prompt of "stars."

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Title: The Road Goes Ever On
Summary: After the long-expected party, Bilbo finds himself being swept away once more.
Word Count: 200 + Notes
Characters: Bilbo, Dwarves
Timeline: 3001 T.A. (1401 S.R.) - just after long-expected party
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: written for pandemonium_213, who asked for an exploration of the Russell quote in the notes

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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: Ice Skating
Summary: Glorfindel watches Elladan ice skating with a young Estel.
Word Count: 200 + Notes
Characters: Aragorn, Elladan, Glorfindel
Timeline: c. 2940 TA/1340 SR (bookverse)
Rating: General, nothing objectionable - pure fluff
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for forodwaith, who requested Rivendell and ice.

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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: Sensitivities
Summary: In which Nob makes a mistake and worries about the consequences. Even in Middle-earth, they must have had food allergies.
Word Count: 559 + Notes
Characters: Nob, Bob
Timeline: pre-Quest, bookverse
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for mrowe, who requested "hobbits, cheese, disaster".

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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)