Challenge:  Smells card, I21 - Meat
Author: Azalais
Title: Horror in the Halls of Stone
Character: Beregond
Format: Drabble
Rating: PG
Warnings: bloodshed and self-immolation
Summary: Eyes that fire and sword have seen, And horror in the halls of stone...

Horror in the Halls of Stone

Challenge: Poetic Forms, N31, Acrostic
Author: Azalais
Title: To Grow and be Glad
Format: Drabble poem (acrostic)
Genre: poetry
Characters: Legolas
Summary: "And I," said Legolas, "shall walk in the woods of this fair land, which is rest enough. In days to come, if my Elven-lord allows, some of our folk shall remove hither; and when we come it shall be ( Read more... )

Challenge: Smells card, N33 - Onion
Author: Azalais
Title: Home Comforts
Characters: Fellowship
Format: Drabble
Summary: Sometimes, home is where the heart is...

Home Comforts

Challenge: Last Lines, N41 - "I think that he is singing"
Author: Azalais
Title: Ho, Ho, Ho, to the Bottle I Go
Characters: Eomer, Legolas, Gimli
Genre: Humour
Length: Drabble
Rating: G
Warnings: drunk as a skunk
Summary: It's been a long day. Come to think of it, it's been a long war.

( Ho, Ho, Ho, to the Bottle I Go )

Just as well I got several days' grace before any of my B2MEM prompts came up this year, because what with having to remember where the page is on the SWG site that tells me what my cards/prompts are  (I suppose I ought to print them out - bookmarking not v practical as I might be on any one of several PCs!), look at each day's Bingo number and ( Read more... )

tolkien_weekly 's first challenge of the New Year was on the theme of "Transactions" (prompts such as Buy, Sell, Borrow...) and I was feeling Bilbo-ish. I've always been intrigued by his journey, after the Long-Expected Party, across the Shire and through the Wild (a route he'd travelled before, of course) to Rivendell:

"It was a fine night, and the black sky was ( Read more... )

The "Let There Be Light" drabble challenge has just finished over at tolkien_weekly . I produced a ten-drabble series (there were nine prompts, but for the last prompt I came up with two ideas which I couldn't squeeze into one drabble, and both of which I wanted in the series, so two-for-one!) on the theme of the standard Arwen wove and stitched for Aragorn, and ( Read more... )

Because it's far too long since I've written anything at all, and the urge to write Legolas-and-Rowanna has suddenly returned with a vengeance, I thought I'd break myself in with a drabble, set in the autumn of 3021. Here at HASA and here at TFF, but for once short enough that I'll post it here in its entirety too - this is Rowanna's reaction to ( Read more... )

For this week's tolkien_weekly challenge, The Tempest:

Thinking about The Tempest in the context of Middle-earth brought me, perhaps inevitably, to magicians at the ending of their powers; and hence to...

His Staff Was Broken on the Stone

Gandalf stands before Orthanc, Isengard’s flotsam and jetsam all around, and sees what the head of his Order has become:

…he ( Read more... )

Originally written for the "Summer Sports" challenge over at tolkien_weekly  , To Show His Quality - a series of six drabbles centred on Faramir during and after the Ring War. Here at HASA and here at Tolkien Fan Fiction - comments there, here, or at DW very welcome!