Entrance
Folco
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Not a Second Time
Once Bitten...
Samwise the...Star? (essay)
Two Poems
Untitled Essay (f-locked)

'Alas! I Fear we cannot stay here longer,' said Aragorn. He looked towards the mountains and held up his sword. `Farewell, Gandalf! ' he cried. 'Did I not say to you: _if you pass the doors of Moria, beware_? Alas that I spoke true! What hope have we without you ( Read more... )

A drabble requested by litlover12  for this drabble requesting meme.  There is ONE spot open!  COME BY AND REQUEST.  :-)  (thanks to labourslamp for discussing the drabble, and suggesting the awesome title!)

Long Night’s Journey Into Day

“You said you loved the chirping of the birds, yesterday!”

“Frodo, they start shrieking at three in the morning!”

“At least you got to ( Read more... )

Sam's Song

Sam's Song in the Tower of Cirith Ungol
from The Return of the King

In western lands beneath the Sun
the flowers may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night
and swaying beeches bear
the Elven-stars as jewels white
amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's ( Read more... )

My phone isn't very good, so it's very hard to understand my lj voice post. I made a recording with a recorder I have using box.net, but I left the lj voice post, just in case there is a problem

http://www.box.net/shared/d721dyodj8

They stumbled wildly up the great stairs beyond the door, Aragorn leading, Boromir at the rear. At the top was a ( Read more... )

A true drabble for labourslamp  for this drabble-requesting meme. (WHERE YOU CAN REQUEST A DRABBLE, TOO!  FOUR SPOTS LEFT!!! )

Folco

He’d read Frodo’s part of the Red Book before Frodo left.

But he’d never befriended the hobbit who followed Frodo there and back again when he, Frodo’s friend and relation, had done nothing.

So when Sam sent him a copy of the Red ( Read more... )

A 55 word fic written for Challenge 001  at great_tales

"If you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes."

Once Bitten...

“Die, you filthy thing! DIE!”

The Gaffer hobbled over to discover the cause of such bloodthirsty violence in his usually gentle son.

“Sam, ( Read more... )

An essay I wrote eight years ago, now.  It is very very flawed, but it is the reason I eventually decided that I wanted to go into literary criticism.  :-)

( Samwise the...Star? )

My third LotR fanwork--for the Nov 2010 challenge at lotr_community

Entrance

He stood in Sauron’s smithy. He had carried himself there on his own two feet. He drew out that … Lover? Master? Self? ... that Golden Ring. And he remembered no more.

Until he found himself standing beside his … Servant? Gardener? Brother? ... his Friend of Friends. Sam had carried him ( Read more... )

My first fan fic ever. Also from high school.
( Not a Second Time )