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Author: Himring
Title: A Love Song to Middle-Earth in Spring
Characters: n/a
Pairing: singer/Arda
Text type / Format: poem (triolet, variation)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: none.
Word Count: 103
Summary: A song that could have been sung by anyone after the first rising of the Sun, really--but maybe particularly by Beren himself, from whose song this piece is adapted, or by Aragorn, since he seems to have liked the Lay of Leithian, from which Beren's song is taken?
Author notes: This was already linked in the prompt post, but I thought it would be a good time to cross-post it. It was written for a LOTR community challenge on LJ that asked for a triolet on the subject of non-romantic love. The first of the two stanzas is a triolet, the second is in free variation to the first.

Author: Himring
Title: Assistance
Characters: Gil-galad; original characters (human and animal; they are inspired by a short film)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion
Rating: General
Warnings: possibly too cheesy for some readers? (no disrespect to disabled people intended)
Word Count: 176
Summary: Early in the Second Age, Gil-galad receives an important collaborator.
Author notes: For the "building" prompt. Also for the current SWG challenge; the original characters are inspired by one of their prompts.

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Author: Himring
Title: Holly
Characters: Celebrimbor, Celeborn
Pairing: N/A
Text type / Format: ficlet
Source / Fandom: LOTR, Unfinished Tales
Rating: PG
Warnings: angst
Word Count: 176
Summary: An exchange between Celebrimbor and Celeborn.
Author notes: For the November challenge.
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Author: Himring
Title: A Gift of Lembas
Characters: Turin
Pairing: Turin & Beleg (or Turin/Beleg, if you would prefer)
Text type / Format: Drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion, Children of Hurin
Rating: Teens
Warnings: canonical doom
Word Count: (12 +) 13
Summary: Turin receives Melian's gift from Beleg.
Author notes: This is a sequel I wrote to the earlier haiku about Melian for DorCuarthol Week, drawing on the scene with Turin and Beleg as described in CoH, so I am reblogging the earlier haiku along with it.
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Author: Himring
Title: Two haikus on a silver theme
Characters: Melian (reference to Turin); Thuringwethil (reference to Tilion)
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: poetry (haikus)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: PG
Warnings: violence implied (also Turin as his own warning)
Word Count: 12 + 16
Summary: Two haikus: Melian to Turin, with a gift of lembas; Thuringwethil and Tilion
Author notes: For the September Challenge; also posted to Tumblr for Sindar Week and Ainur Week.

Prompt B

And she gave him store of lembas, the waybread of the Elves, wrapped in leaves of silver, and the threads that bound it were sealed at the knots with the seal of the Queen, a wafer of white wax shaped as a single flower of Telperion

Melian to Turin, with a gift of lembas

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Prompt A

Tilion was a hunter of the company of Oromë, and he had a silver bow. He was a lover of silver, and when he would rest he forsook the woods of Oromë, and going into Lórien he lay in dream by the pools of Estë, in Telperion's flickering beams; and he begged to be given the task of tending for ever the last Flower of Silver

Thuringwethil and Tilion

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Author: Himring
Title: This is not new
Text type / Format: Poetry (Collage)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: Gen
Word Count: 78
Summary: The passing of the seasons and years in Middle-earth.
Prompt fill for July (the hot/cold prompt), hastily cobbled together out of bits stolen from two of Shakespeare's sonnets, with some editing.
(Because apparently I am stubborn and couldn't let it go!)

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Author: Himring
Title: Song of the Numenoreans
Characters: Inhabitants of the coast of Middle-earth 
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: poetry (free verse)
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion (Akallabeth)
Rating: PG
Warnings: allusion to dubious consent
Word Count: 124
Summary: It is the middle of the Second Age. The Numenoreans, who always tended to think a little more highly of themselves than perhaps they deserved, have turned oppressive and grasping. Inhabitants of coastal towns are always happy to see Numenorean ships approaching (not).
Author notes: prompt fill for the prompt: taxes or similar charges.

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Author: Himring
Title: A Day's Journey through Minas Tirith
Characters: Ioreth; one of Arwen's daughters
Pairing: background Bergil / OFC
Text type / Format: not fixed length
Source / Fandom: The Lord of the Rings
Rating: PG
Warnings: brief reference to death of one or more minors in war
Word Count: c. 900 words
Summary: Ioreth has to endure some of the physical drawbacks of advanced age, but there are also people who accord her the kindness and respect she deserves.
Author notes: Besides being a prompt fill for the March challenge, this piece also incorporates SWG prompts and B2MeM Prompt Board prompts.

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Author: Himring
Title: A briefer light
Characters: Elros
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: drabble
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion
Rating: G
Warnings: reference to the dangers of fire
Word Count: 100
Summary: Elros considers the lamps of the Edain.
Author notes: There was a lantern prompt at the Instadrabbling session on the SWG Discord, so here is one more post on the theme of lamp or lantern.

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Author: Himring
Title: Skipping Song
Characters: Lalaith, Turin, Nienor (the children of Hurin), and maybe somebody else
Pairing: n/a
Text type / Format: ficlet, containing a skipping rhyme
Source / Fandom: Silmarillion (Children of Hurin)
Rating: PG
Warnings: referenced character death; some angst
Word Count: 992 words
Summary: A skipping game, and how it connects the children of Hurin and how it doesn't.
Author notes: Prompt fill for both prompts of the November challenge. (Oops, this got long, just under the wire for the word count.)

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