Éowyn quit biting her lip and finally released a strangled chuckle. Her husband looked up from his plate, not long before piled up with pieces of roast duck and stewed vegetables.

“I always marvel at your hunger after returning from the White City, Faramir,” she answered his unspoken question, a teasing smile on her lips.

Faramir laughed.

“I will have ( Read more... )

No, dear roh_wyn, I have not forgotten about your Big Day, I was just having some trouble with the present! Here goes a drabble:

Heirs

Enthralled, the boy ran his hand along the elegant curve of the horn, all the way to its silver tip.

“Do you like it, son?”

The child started, alarmed, but instantly relaxed under the gaze of his father’s smiling eyes.

“Aye,” ( Read more... )

When I was a child, I wondered why birds sang so much in the early hours of the morning.

I once asked our father if he knew. He gave me a long look, sighed and said, “Perhaps they are merely glad to have lived through another night.”

I only fully understood what he meant on the morning after my first battle, when I, too, rejoiced in being alive. Like ( Read more... )

This time for roh_wyn, who requested a fairy tale, Gondor-style. It turned into a double drabble in the end!

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Fairy Tale‘…And then the wind maidens heard her plea and came down; and with them, they brought a gown of blue silk, and clad their sister in it. And at once she was able to fly even as they were; and she departed with them, never to return ( Read more... )

...a belated fanficly birthday present for Acacea, a.k.a. windswept1/pinkoliphaunt! She requested something with Elboron and Pippin in it. :)

Hope you like!

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Not Quite a Lie‘Master Peregrin,’ Elboron breathed out, settling more comfortably in bed, eyes shining, ‘what was the scariest of all your adventures ( Read more... )

I've written some drabbles and double drabbles for cressidarambles, who's been having some really busy time at work. *pats Cress* I did the same two years ago; the two collections can be found here:

The Nine Drabbles (2007)

The Other Nine

Both focus on Faramir at various points of LotR. :)

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( And just in case someone objects to ff.net, I'm posting the second set here as well. )

A very happy birthday to a very good friend!! :-D I hope you have a most wonderful year ahead! *squeezes you*

And here goes my present! cressidarambles, thanks for the beta job!

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Home

Many miles away is the place she once called home.

The sky is so blue there, and where it meets the endless expanse of the great sea, it merges with it in a single vault of ( Read more... )

And here goes my belated present!  Sorry, it still needs a title...and believe me, I was surprised when I wrote it! *chuckles* Happy birthday!

His broad clear brow in sunlight glow'd;
On burnish'd hooves his war-horse trode;
From underneath his helmet flow'd
His coal-black curls as on he rode...
             Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

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As he ( Read more... )

Family Matters

‘Babies cry all the time.’

‘Uh-huh. And you can’t play with them. And if you try, you might even get in trouble,’ Boromir said, biting into a big juicy apple. ‘I wanted to give Faramir a bit of honey cake, and that made Mother cross.’

‘He couldn’t eat it anyway - babies have no teeth! They look so stupid.’ the other boy giggled. ‘ ( Read more... )

Written for a challenge
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