The Way of the Wombat

A meme acquired from huinare.


Using only song names from one artist, cleverly answer these questions. Repost as “My Life According to (band name)"


( My Life According to Runrig )

Those who know me well, and also have some knowledge of Gaelic pronunciation, will be amused at the next to last answer...

This is the story I wrote for the Tolkien BigBang! It is completed in a prologue and eight chapters - a total of about 27,500 words - illustrated by ellynn_ithilwen. I will post both Prologue and Chapter One tonight as the Prologue is, by the nature of things, short!

The verses at the beginning of each chapter are from the songs of Runrig. Here on my journal I will try, as far as possible, to actually link each one to the song on YouTube so that you can hear it.

I have left the chapter end notes that were written for anyone who had not read the earlier stories.

Summary - Tolkien tells us that, after the death of King Elessar, Legolas built a ship and sailed West, accompanied by Gimli. This is a story of that time, a time of mortal deaths, preparations... and The Key.





Prologue - Dust Will Turn The Seed Home
Word Count - 1,450
Rated 13
Beta's by S2C.

( Under here )

On to Chapter One, The Precious Years Are Gone.

Happy New Year to all.

I want to share this piece of music with you all, because to me, New Year is a very Celtic thing.

It is the piece made especially for the opening of the new BBC Alba service - the BBC Gaelic language channel for Scotland.

If you like scenery, and people, you will love it, but is especially for runriggers, talesofsnape and fionnabhar - they will all see why, if they play it!





Also for mylescorcoran for his birthday, if he likes this sort of thing...but there wasn't room to put you on the header - sorry!