Marta's Mathoms

Title: Heart of Stone
Rating: PG13 for adult themes
Challenge: Hearts and Flowers (GFIC Feb '11)
Word Count: 5,596 + Notes
Elements: brotherly love, heart of stone, hollyhock (ambition)

Summary: "And Mr. Drogo was staying at Brandy Hall with his father-in-law, old Master Gorbadoc, as he often did after his marriage (him being partial to his vittles, and old Gorbadoc keeping a mighty generous table); and he went out boating on the Brandywine River; and he and his wife were drownded, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all." (from "A Long-Expected Party")

( Part One: Air - October, S.R. 1380 )
( Part Two: Air - January, S.R. 1382 )
( Part Three: Earth - Midsummer, S.R. 1385 )
( Part Four: Fire - October, S.R. 1390 )

Title: Fire and Smoke
Word Count: 1,095 + Notes
Rating: PG13 for Dark Themes
Fandom: Silmarillion (Akallabeth)
Characters: Sakalzor (OMC), Gimilbeth (OFC)
Beta: just_ann_now, anna_wing, and dawn_felagund
Challenges: Birthday Giftfic '10
Summary: "Thereafter the fire and smoke went up without ceasing; for the power of Sauron daily increased, and in that temple, with spilling of blood and torment and great wickedness, men made sacrifice to Melkor." (Akallabeth)

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Title: Birthright
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Characters: Denethor
Prompt: BMEM09 Days 23-25; fanfic100 prompt #82, if
Word Count: 554
Rating: General
Summary: Denethor would have made a fine second-son; but that was not to be his fate.

Multimedia Note: For the interested, my "soundtrack" for this song was PFR's song Name. Not the lyrics so much, but parts of the song has the right "feel" for how I envision Denethor in this song.

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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: Leaf and Twig
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: young Celeborn
Prompt: BMEM09, Day Seven
Word Count: 300 + Notes
Rating: General
Summary: Because even the greatest of elf-lords were children, once upon a time... A wee moment of adventure, from the journey from Cuivienen.

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Title: Fire and Ice
Rating: PG, for themes related to death
Summary: In the Fourth Age, Barahir travels with his family to Rohan. (Originally posted in 2003, but now substantially revised.)
Word Count: 3,491



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NOTE: The LOTR prologue tells us that Barahir wrote a history of Aragorn and Arwen, an abridged version of which is included in the LOTR appendices. For the purposes of this story, all you need to know is that he is a grandson of Faramir and Éowyn.

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( The king is dead. No, not *that* king. )

Title: Factions
Summary: Isildur's theft of the fruit of the White Tree, from a different perspective. Slightly AU.
Word Count: 1,254 + Notes
Characters: Tar-Miriel, OC
Timeline: Early 3200s S.A.
Rating: General
Warnings: none
Beta: just_ann_now
Note: Written for Dwimordene, who asked for "an argument or encounter between factions within the Faithful [of Numenor]."

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Title: Fealty and Service
Summary: Faramir pledges his sword to Gondor.
Word Count: 100
Rating: General (nothing objectionable)
Timeline: Mid-Third Age (bookverse)

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