Dreamflower's Mathom-house

B2MeM Challenge: B-13, Hobbits, "The Battle of Bywater"; Poetic Forms, "free verse"
Format: Poetry, Free Verse
Title: Open Eyes
Genre: Poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: An unnamed ruffian
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Not all were ruffians from the start...

Open Eyes

B2MeM Challenge: Shirish: B-7, shirriff, "a feather in your cap"
Format: Ficlet
Title: Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds
Genre: Character Study, Gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters:Robin Smallburrow, Sam Gamgee, Tom Cotton, Merry Brandybuck
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Robin Smallburrow becomes a shirriff.

Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds

B2MeM Challenge: G-59, Hobbits, "Lotho", Poetic Form, "cinquain"
Format: Poetry
Title: Lotho
Genre: Poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Lotho
Pairings: N/A
Author's Note: Not having tried cinquain before, I looked it up. There seemed some division over whether the line should be counted by words or by syllables. I chose syllables.
Summary: Lotho's opinion of himself...

Lotho Sackville-Baggins

B2MeM Challenge: G-59, Alternate Viewpoint, "The Uruk-hai" TT,
Format: Drabble
Title: Grishnâkh's Moment
Genre: Drabble, Gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Grishnâkh, implied Pippin, implied Merry
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Grishnâkh seizes his chance for power...

Grishnâkh's Moment

First up, two more "Canon Couples" dribbles:

B2MeM Challenge: I-27: Canon couples, "Pippin/Diamond", I-27: Shirish, "Astron ("spring is in full bud")
Format: Dribble
Title: Astron Wedding
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Pippin, Diamond, assorted hobbit wedding guests
Pairings: Pippin/Diamond
Summary: It's a perfect day for a hobbit wedding.

Astron Wedding

B2MeM Challenge: B-4, Canon Couple, "Beren/Luthien"; Food, "Bread
Format: Dribble
Title: Together Always
Genre: Romance, Poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Beren, Luthien
Pairings: Beren/Luthien
Summary: The simple life can be appreciated after long trials and adventures...

Together Always

A couple of ficlets:

B2MeM Challenge: O-64, Crossover1 (with one of Tolkien's other books); Hobbits, "The Lockholes"
Format: Ficlet
Title: Hope Is a Waking Dream
Genre: Crossover
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Fatty Bolger, Lórien, the Man-in-the-Moon
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: This is a crossover, LotR with Roverandom and The Silmarillion. I like to think that one way in which the Powers could help the peoples of Middle-earth was through the gift of rest and hope. And as for the Man-in-the-Moon, his realm (in my mind) encompasses and exceeds Arda, though his charges are any children who can see the Moon from whatever universe they dwell. It seemed possible to me that he might collaborate with Lórien to provide a respite for a weary prisoner. The title is a quote from Aristotle.
Summary: In dreams may sometimes come rest and surcease from sorrow...

Hope Is a Waking Dream

B2MeM Challenge: N-32, Art Supplies, pastels; Hobbits, The Tooks (won't count for Bingo; too late)
Format: Frame story; Ficlet
Title: Tookish Tradition
Genre: Story
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Pippin, OFC (his oldest daughter, Primrose)
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: This has been part of my headcanon for years, that Great Smials Tooks say 'mother' and 'father' instead of using diminuitives for their parents; at last I have the chance to explain the story behind it.
Summary: Pippin explains a Tookish custom to his daughter.

Tookish Tradition

And finally, Sam writes a gardener's poem:

B2MeM Challenge: O-62, Crossover2, Poetry; Food, Potato; Shirish, Solmath
Format: Poetry
Title: Ode to Potatoes
Genre: Poetry, Parody
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Sam Gamgee
Pairings: N/A
Author's Note: I've tried poems in Ogden Nash's style in the past—but this particular grouping of prompts woke up my Ogden Nash muse again. One of the hallmarks of Nash's humorous style are lines which are very mismatched in length and scansion. Also you will notice a famous line from movie-verse in this one.
Summary: Another poem in the style of Ogden Nash.

Ode to Potatoes

I've got several more in half-finished form-- perhaps I can work on those today!

B2MeM Challenge: G-51: Canon Couples, "Arathorn/Gilraen"
Format: Dribble
Title: Ivorwen's Foresight
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Ivorwen, Arathorn, Gilraen
Pairings: Arathorn/Gilraen
Summary: Ivorwen knows her daughter's heart...

Ivorwen's Foresight
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B2MeM Challenge: Canon Couples N-38, "Valacar/Vidumavi"
Format: Dribble
Title: Alliance
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Valacar, Vidumavi
Pairings: Valacar/Vidumavi
Summary: Valacar finds more than he meant to on his mission to Rhovanion...

Alliance
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B2MeM Challenge: Canon Couples, O-67, "Faramir/Eowyn" (this does not count, as it wasn't done in time.)
Format: Dribble
Title: Blue Mantle
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Faramir, implied Eowyn
Pairings: Faramir/Eowyn
Summary: Faramir goes in search of a special gift.

Blue Mantle
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I've had an extremely busy week; in addition to trying to keep up with my B2MEM prompts, and feeling rather like a hamster on a wheel over them, we have been painting our bedroom and hanging new curtains in both the bedroom and living room. (Perhaps tomorrow or Monday I can take and post some pics.) Yesterday we ran like crazy with errands that kept us busy all day.

Today, I was supposed to work 7AM to 3PM-- I ended up working to 4, and then my boss asked me if I'd come in tomorrow (I don't normally work Sunday) for a few hours, since she had some people call in-- not a full shift anyway, thank goodness! But I am so pooped. I hope I can move in the morning, LOL!

But I am also very excited about THIS news! I am hoping to find out enough about the venue so I can be there! I'm so happy! Imagine him coming HERE of all places, as it's not likely to change anyone's mind about him, or garner him any votes here that he wasn't already going to get.

I was kind of sad, but not surprised, that all but ONE of the people whom I mentioned it to, or who mentioned it TO me, were negative about the whole thing. You know, even if you don't LIKE a president, it's still an honor to have one come to your town-- I know as a child growing up, I was always taught that you respect the office even if you don't respect the man. But most people here are either very nasty about the president, or at best, resentful of the trouble it will cause for traffic and stuff!

In kind of nice news, my church has a program to provide a free community meal once a month-- we have it the evening of the third Saturday, and have gone in with two other churches, who host it on the first and second Saturday. It's called "P,B&J" (for "Peace, Bread & Joy") Anyone's welcome to come, and this is the first time I haven't been working on the evening we had it, so I went up to donate some butter. Our store is having a promotion-- for every $15 spent in the market, you get a free pound of real butter. I'd managed to collect ten pounds this week (several from my own purchases, and a couple from customers who did not want their promotional free butter, and told me to donate it for them). So I kept four, and took six up to the church along with a couple of other food donations, and stayed to eat some spaghetti and talk a little. But now I am home and my feet hurt, and I am very tired.

Hopefully, after a little rest, I can try to whip some of my bits and pieces of partially done B2MeM fics into some things I can post. I've only been able to finish and post a few so far, but now, instead of 3 WIPs, I have a gazillion (no, not really, it just feels that way.)

And read "The Grey Havens". I cannot BELIEVE that Mark of "Mark Reads" is going to finish LotR on Monday. It seems to have gone so QUICKLY!

B2MeM Challenge: Canon Couples, B-7, " Imrazôr /Mithrellas"; Crossover2, "Romance", B-7
Format: Dribble
Title: Storm Debris
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Imrazôr , Mithrellas
Pairings: Imrazor/Mithrellas
Author's Notes: I borrowed the term "Ossë's wrath" from surgicalsteel. In Unfinished Tales we are told that it was in just such a storm that Amroth's ship was swept from shore. Nimrodel's party was lost in the mountains at the time. I am imagining here that Mithrellas is found unconscious afterwards, alone and separated from the rest of the party, as Imrazôr and his people are surveying the storm damage.
Summary: Imrazôr comes upon Mithrellas.

Storm Debris

B2MeM Challenge: Poetic Forms: B-7, "Haiku"
Format: Haiku
Title: March 25, T.A. 3019
Genre: Poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: (implied) Frodo
Pairings: N/A
Summary: A new year, a new era, begins

March 25, T.A. 3019

B2MeM Challenge: N-31, Art Supplies, "Beads"; N-31, Crossover, "Folk or fairy tale", N-31, Food, "Pasta (including noodles)"
Format: Short Story,Frame Story
Title: Gone is Gone (the Hobbit Version)
Genre: Folk tale
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Rose Gamgee, the younger Gamgee children
Pairings: OMC/OFC
Author's Notes: This Middle-earth adaptation is based on "Gone is Gone", a translation of a Bohemian folk tale by Wanda Hazel Gág. It is in the third volume of the 1954 edition of Childcraft. Those orange-backed books were a main source of my early childhood reading, and I still own them, worn as they are. This particular tale was definitely a favorite of mine and always makes me giggle hysterically.
Summary: Rose Gamgee tells the children the tale of Noddy Button, who gets more than he bargained for.

Gone is Gone (the Hobbit Version)

B2MeM Challenge: Crossover 1: N-41, "with mythology"
Format: Fable
Title: Why Hobbits Don't Like Heights
Genre: Crossover, Myth
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: OCs
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: This is a hobbitified version of the myth of Icarus, with a somewhat happier ending…
Summary: Why hobbits don't like heights…

Why Hobbits Don't Like Heights

And I have decided to do any "Canon Couple" prompts as dribbles...

B2MeM Challenge: Canon Couples: N-41, Thingol/Melian
Format: Dribble
Title: While Long Years Were Measured by the Wheeling Stars Above
Genre: Romance
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Elu Thingol, Melian
Pairings: Thingol/Melian
Summary: That famous encounter in Nan Elmoth.

While Long Years Were Measured by the Wheeling Stars Above

B2MeM Challenge: Art Supplies: N-41, "Easel"; Food: N-41, "Tarts"
Format: Tribble (tripple drabble, 300 words)
Title:The Portrait
Genre: Character Study
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Bilbo, Frodo, Calla Brandybuck (OFC)
Pairings: N/A
Author's Notes: Calla Brandybuck is one of my OCs, and has appeared in a few stories, most notably "Cousin Calla". She is one of Frodo's Brandybuck cousins, and he took art lessons from her during the time he lived in Brandy Hall. Dahlia, who is briefly mentioned, is another OFC, Merry's nursemaid.
Summary: Cousin Calla is painting a very special portrait.

The Portrait

B2MeM Challenge: Card B-10, " Déagol and Sméagol"
Format: Dialogue
Title: The Birth of Gollum
Genre: Gapfiller, Angst
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Sméagol/Gollum
Pairings: N/A
Summary: How long does it take to still a guilty conscience?

The Birth of Gollum

Here's one I posted last night:

B2MeM Challenge: Hobbits: O-68, "Sharkey"
Format: Ficlet, Inner Monologue
Title: Sharkey Arrives at Bag End
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Saruman, Grima Wormtongue, Lotho Sackville-Baggins
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Saruman's impressions of his arrival at Bag End.

Sharkey Arrives at Bag End

And here are three late ones I posted today. They are for I-22, which was for March 4, so I don't get credit for them, but I wanted to write them anyway:

B2MeM Challenge: Alternate Viewpoints, I-22, "A Thief in the Night"
Format: Drabble
Title: Bard and the Arkenstone
Genre: POV gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Bard the Bowman, the Elven-king, implied Bilbo
Pairings: N/A
Summary: The Arkenstone has its own allure; Bard wonders how Bilbo could give it up.
Author's Note: (I was at first dismayed at this prompt, since I did an Alternate Viewpoint of this last year. But that was Gandalf.)

Bard and the Arkenstone

B2MeM Challenge: Art Supplies, I-22, "Stone"
Format: Drabble
Title: Heart of the Mountain
Genre: Gapfiller
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Thrain I of Erebor, OMC Dwarf
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Someone had to cut and polish the Arkenstone.
Author's Notes: ...Thrain I, Nain's son, came to Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, near the eastern eaves of Mirkwood, and there he began new works, and became King Under the Mountain. In Erebor he found the great jewel, the Arkenstone, Heart of the Mountain." (Appendix A, III, "Durin's Folk")

Heart of the Mountain

B2MeM Challenge: Canon Couples, I-22, "Celeborn and Galadriel"
Format: Dribble
Title: Grey Sails at Sunset
Genre: Poetry
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Celeborn, Galadriel
Pairings: Celeborn/Galadriel
Summary: Someone else besides three hobbits watched that ship sail from the Grey Havens.

Grey Sails at Sunset

B2MeM Challenge: Crossover 2—N-43, Comedy
Format: Script
Title: Hey! Hey! It's The Hobbits!
Genre: Parody
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Sam, Merry, Pippin and Frodo, Farmer Maggot, Geranium Maggot (OFC)
Pairings: Frodo/OFC
Summary: The Hobbits are tempted by more than they can reasonably bite off.

Hey! Hey! It's The Hobbits!

B2MeM Challenge: Art Supplies—N-43, carving
Format: double drabble (200 words)
Title: Payback
Genre: fluff
Rating: G
Warnings: N /A
Characters: Merry, Saradoc Brandybuck
Pairings: N/A
Summary: Saradoc makes a little farewell gift for little Merry before he takes

Payback