Marta's Mathoms

Title: When Winter First Begins to Bite
Words: 2,780 + Notes
Rating: General
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Eowyn, Ioreth
Betas: annmarwalk
Challenge: fanfic100 #94: independence; advent 2010 series

Summary: Several years after the War of the Ring, Eowyn seeks out an old healer-woman to whom she owes a debt of gratitude.

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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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