So much I've wanted to share, and after my attempts previously, I decided that just because I missed the chance to do it right away, I'll do it anyway ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from hobbit_holidays)

Every year I try to come up with a new song from the Shire for Yule. This year's offering turned into something a little different!

A New Year's Game of the ShireThis is a game played on the first day of the New Year, which by the Shire Reckoning is called Second Yule. It's a popular feature at most New Year celebrations, and ( Read more... )

Remember this quiz that was going around a few days ago?
How well do you know Middle-earth?
I took it the other day, and got 16 out of 20 (two answers I dispute!) and then I noticed something: This test was biased! Questions about every race of beings except for the most important one: Hobbits! Why no hobbit questions?
So, I put my own little hobbit ( Read more... )

Found this when I was looking for prompt-words for this month's challenge stories:

150 Words to Describe the Taste of Food

While researching dates for my story "Eleventy-one: Too Short a Time, Book One", I collected some information on certain years in the Shire. I thought it would be helpful to share this information in case anyone else might find it useful; as for myself, I discovered that the chapter I wanted to write would not canonically fit into the time frame I ( Read more... )

I wrote a new installment of my series "A Mother's Work" this year, but did not get to post it yesterday, so here's a belated Mother's Day story!

Rating: G
Summary: Even in Gondor, a mother's work is never done.

A Mother's Work: Rose

Here are the lads in their home on top of my desk, left to right, Sam, Frodo, Merry and Pippin.


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A not unexpected departure...

Chapter Seventy: The Burglar Steals Away

*here's a virtual hankie*

I've posted a couple of new fics over at hobbit_holidays:

A Father's Fears A six drabble set on what it was like to be the father of Peregrin Took.

Fathers by Choice Elrond and Bilbo worry about the sons of their hearts. A double drabble

I posted this over at hobbit_holidays.

It's been a long time since I wrote a story that was not either a WIP or an exchange story or a challenge story. But this one came to me tonight after the Children's Pageant at church, and I came home and just wrote it all up at once. And though it's been a very long time, I thought this was a good place for it.

Rating: G ( Read more... )