Marta's Mathoms

Title: Heresy
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Maedhros
Prompt: BMEM Day 22
Word Count: 791
Rating: Teen (for character death)
Summary: "The cruel servants of Celegorm seized his young sons and left them to starve in the forest. Of this Maedhros indeed repented, and sought for them long in the woods of Doriath."
Author's Notes: Also written for mistry89, who long ago asked me for an Elured + Elurin story.

Multimedia Note: Sorta kinda inspired by PFR's song Wonder Why (lyrics). This doesn't exactly evoke the mood I'd want while reading this piece, but the lyrics definitely captures Maedhros's character as I see it - at least at this late date.

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Title: A Game Well-Played
Fandom: Lord of the rings
Characters: Denethor, Faramir, OCs (Boromir mentioned)
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 19; fanfic100 #27, "parents"
Word Count: 1,711 + Notes
Rating: General
Beta: Annmarwalk
Summary: On lessons learned across the chess-board.

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Title: Country Comforts
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Ioreth, OC Gondorian
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 17; fanfic100 #14 (green)
Word Count: 579
Rating: General
Summary: It's not always easy being different. A young Ioreth has a hard day.

Author's Notes: As an added challenge to the above, I'm trying to improve my dialect skills (i.e.: spell as it's pronounced without going totally Huck Finn on my reader. Would appreciate knowing if the dialect-writing is too much, not enough, inconsistent, etc.

Multimedia: For the interested, I listened to Entre Olas by Juan Serrano to get in the mood for writing Ioreth. You might find it good to listen to while reading. I don't know if it makes sense musicologically/historically, but I imagine songs like this as being the "Country-Western" of Gondor's music scene.

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Title: Stranger in a Strange Land
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: OC Gondorian
Prompt: BMEM09 Day 12; fanfic100 prompt #22
Word Count: 741
Rating: Teen for adult themes
Summary: And in the fifteenth year of his reign, the king Telcontar did declare a curfew on all men of Haradric descent, whether in whole or any sizeable part. For in that year many such men were beaten at night, and no few died, and the king was loath to allow such things … (from The Annals of Telcontar)
Author's Notes: The OC in this piece is from my story "Diplomacy." But I intend this piece as self-sufficient without knowledge of that one.

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Title: Catharsis
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Boromir
Prompt: BMEM Day 10; fanfic100 prompt #51
Word Count: 857
Rating: General
Warning: Deals with (canonical) character death, and with spiritual themes.
Summary: In "Windows on the West", Faramir tells us that Boromir's funeral boat traveled down Anduin and at last reached the sea. But who's to say it stopped there?



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Thus it was that great mariners among them would still search the empty seas, hoping to come upon the Isle of Meneltarma, and there to see a vision of things that were. But they found it not… (“The Akallabêth,” The Silmarillion)

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Title: As Little Might Be Thought
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Maglor, Elrond, Elros
Prompt: BMEM09, Day 6 - Music
Word Count: 861
Rating: Teen for adult themes
Summary: "For Maglor took pity upon Elros and Elrond, and he cherished them, and love grew after between them, as little might be thought; but Maglor's heart was sick and weary with the burden of the dreadful oath."

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Title: From the Ashes
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Faramir
Prompt: Fire prompt for fanfic100; prompt #1 for BMEM09
Word Count: 359
Rating: General
Summary: "We are fire-masters, we guardians of Ithilien." Faramir begins to see the truth in his father's words.

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Title: Mathoms
Summary: One autumn night in Rivendell, Aragorn pays a visit to Bilbo.
Word Count: 679 + Notes
Characters: Aragorn, Bilbo
Timeline: c. 3006 T.A. (1406 S.R.) - five years after Long-expected Party
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: for radbooks, who asked for Aragorn and Bilbo, with the prompt of "stars."

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Title: Twice Bound
Summary: A careless comment on James's part upsets a rather pregnant Lily. Because pureblood/Muggle-born relationships would probably have all the stresses of inter-racial or inter-religious marriages in our own world.
Word Count: 882 + Notes
Characters: Lily/James Potter
Timeline: May 1980 (summer before Harry's birth)
Rating: General
Warnings: Um, discussion of religion? Not really sure if that qualifies as "mature themes," but some readers may find my treatment a bit liberal for their tastes.
Beta: just_ann_now (and thank you, lindahoyland, for reading over it for Americanisms)
Notes: written for allie_meril, who asked for "a wizarding perspective on faith".

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Title: Fealty
Summary: Denethor considers the wisdom of one of his father's decisions.
Word Count: 200
Characters: Denethor (Ecthelion + Aragorn mentioned)
Timeline: c. 2970 TA (1370 SR) (bookverse)
Rating: General, nothing objectionable
Beta: just_ann_now
Notes: Written for roh_wyn, who requested Denethor reflecting on being steward, and for fliewatuet who requested Denethor and Thorongil.

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