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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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)

Here's my entry for March 26, a poem:

The Path of Wisdom

Two dribbles written for the great_tales 55 word challenge.

Title: Grey Havens
Rating: G
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings (bookverse)
Character(s): Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took
Summary: Watching the Ringbearer's ship sail away...

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Title: Composition
Rating: G
Fandom: The Hobbit
Character(s): Bilbo Baggins
Summary: On his way home from Adventure, Bilbo tries to distract himself with a bit of versifying…
Author's Notes: Another dribble. I could not resist. I am imagining Bilbo sitting in the dark listening to Gandalf snore and thinking it is taking entirely too long to get home. (I seem to have hit on a “going home” theme here…)The parts in italics are from "Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red", from FotR, Book I, Chapter III, "Three's Company".

Composition ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from great_tales

Mews dear, I hope you've been having a Happy Birthday! Here's a little dribble for you, inspired by the first story of yours that I read, "In Frodo's Hands":

(In Minas Tirith, Pippin observes Frodo and remembers.)

Remembering Frodo's Hands

I watch him sleep, now, exhausted by all the celebrations.
Sam, protective as ever, slumbers soundly by his side.
Merry has gone to protect someone else dear,
Théoden's place of rest in the hallows.
So now I watch my Frodo,
tracing the lines of sorrow;
remembering his gentle hands
guiding my own
childish ones
carefully.

Well, it's the last day of Back to Middle-earth month, and here are my last two entries for the prompts by there_n_back. I am afraid I am not going to attempt the special characters. It was all I could do to get these two finished:

Rating: G
Summary: …Yavanna takes up a new duty...(a drabble)

Y: LIKE A YAWNING YAVANNA ( Read more... )


Rating: G
Summary: A climactic battle…(a dribble)

Z: LIKE ZOOMING AROUND ZIRAKZIGIL ( Read more... )

Here is the letter "S", for the there_n_back "Alphabet for Middle-earth" Challenge

Rating: G
Summary: Sauron, defined. (Not exactly a dribble)

S: LIKE A SORDID SAURON

Sordid, as evil so often is,
And filled with sleepless malice,
Understanding nothing of love,
Ruined by mercy,
Overcome, and
Negated.