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Title: Save the Last Dance
Characters: Erestor/Glorfindel
Time and place: Mithlond, mid-Second Age
Beta: Red Lasbelin
Written for: doodlinglisy for the Tumblr Tolkien Secret Santa 2018
Summary: In which Glorfindel finally gets to dance in the rain with Erestor. In other words, fluff. But nice fluff. I tried to do fancier things with the prompt ( Read more... )

TSS made it out on time, though that was a case of writing (rewriting) down to the wire. It's fluffy and sweet and makes me happy, mainly because in the end I just wrote something I wanted to read. And the giftee seems to have liked it, it has a decent amount of hits, it has a goodly number of kudos, and it has one comment --- from someone I'd ( Read more... )

It seems the TSS is meant to be posted by 1pm my time. Silly me, I assumed it didn't matter when, as long as you got it up on the 24th. I don't think I'll be home before late afternoon (with luck). It does not help that I scrapped the other rubbish and wrote a bit over 2k in the last two days and am still cleaning it up. And I have never posted a ( Read more... )

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Need to update more often. Ummmm ( Read more... )

MEME - taken from the wonderful minuial_nuwing:

Choose a scene from any of my writings, and I will give you one to three sentences that didn't make the final version.

--======--Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on my flist, I hope you were suitably spoilt today. I got flowers and was taken to see The Avengers (I was forced to wait for this, but it was ( Read more... )

Taken from red_lasbelin

Name a character from one of my fandoms (let's confine this to Tolkien :)), and I'll give you either:

(a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon,
(b) a reason he/she sucks,
(c) a reason he/she is awesome,
(d) five things that never happened to that character, or
(e) five people that character never fell in love with and

I never imagined any of my MEFA fics would be placed - it's usually the well-loved pairings and themes that do best, and Gil-galad, a Celeborn and Galadriel adventure/romance (or something), a Second Age gap filler, and Arwen don't really fit the profile. So when I got the email today, I was completely stunned. These stories are very dear to me and ( Read more... )

Borrowed from several on my flist.

It always feels good to be able to tell friends what you think makes them special, so...

If you leave your name to this post, I will

1. tell you something I enjoy about your creativity ( Read more... )