jaiden_s gave me this prompt: I'm trying to remember the specifics of your LOTR stories, but it's been a minute since I read them. What about a short scene related to cooking? Maybe baking bread or realizing an ingredient is missing or having to whip something up for guests with what is in the pantry?So here is a very short vignette, 447 words. Mostly a ( Read more... )

A quick aside: it can take hours to update one's fic website when it hasn't been touched in 9 months. I knew I'd written a Rohirric/Dwarvish cultural study fic last winter but in scouring my LJ and various other sites, I discovered I only published it one place for an exchange I now can't remember. So quite happily, I have a Tolkien genfic to post ( Read more... )

I'm working on a story and even with my Atlas of Middle Earth, I'm uncertain how far it is from Edoras to Helm's Deep, especially if someone is riding a horse. Would it take a couple of hours? A day? I'm setting this post-WR when everything is peaceful but after my last mistake with my dwarf-centric story, I want to get my details right. I could ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, baby ( Read more... )

Yes, it's been forever. Still, here's another entry for my table. For all five or six of the people on my flist who like/remember my Tolkien writing, hope you enjoy yet another glimpse into Gimli's psyche ( Read more... )

I have to say just a couple of things about this, because this gift exchange has been the most serendipitous, astounding series of events. I was picked to write for annmarwalk, someone I didn't recognize, but the parameters were fine (3rd age Rohan or Gondor), and I chose Rohan. Yes, big shock. But- I began writing, and Théodred was the main character. I ( Read more... )

My dear cim_halfling requested this:

And I have no idea what I'd request from you, if I could. Hmmmm, I love your Harry Potter, but I love your Tolkien even more. Please, could I have a little something about my beloved Eowyn?? Just a snippet if you please, and before FOTR.For you, my dear heart who continues to beta for me and whom I am ever grateful to have ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted and already sore, having spent several hours today with an industrial strength hot gun in my left hand and a putty knife in my right, scraping paint of my parents' wood banisters on their outside porch. :P A definite plus for today, though: two new CD compilations from llembas!! Thanks, dear- I'm listening to #1 now. Can't wait to hear The ( Read more... )

Now complete. I'll be emailing it to qowf momentarily and hoping she doesn't rip it apart, because I don't think I'm willing to change much of it. But here it is, complete. Hope you enjoy.

( The Hours )