curiouswombat: (B2MEM14)
At last I can post my B2ME story here as it has now been unveiled!

So;

My prompt: The turning of the year brings feasts and holidays. It's time to enjoy the bounty that was saved for the winter. Create a story or a work of art featuring a Winter seasonal food. Bonus for including a recipe.

And I was prompted to write what is, basically, a Returnverse Gap-filler.

This is the story of a small elfling arriving in The West expecting to be reunited with his parents... Or further adventures of The winter Elfling from In The Winter Garden.

Word count approx 6,000
Rated G.

Read more... )

Writing this has taken me a little while, which is what has delayed the next chapter of The Valinor Trail - but that should be posted within the next week or so, too.
curiouswombat: (Tindómë)
The idea for this came to me a few months ago - it just took a while to get it into a short story...


Summertime, and the living is easy...

Word count; 2,300
Rating; teen


Read more... )



I reckon you can guess what inspired that!

P.S. - message to[livejournal.com profile] ningloreth - this is totally safe for you to read.... :)
curiouswombat: (Rumil)
A short story in the Returnverse. Set during the last chapters of Dust. Rumil, like so many of the other Ithilien Elves, is sorting out his possessions to decide what to take West, and what not to...

True Likeness
Rated 15
Word Count 906 (I know - if I was S2C I'd have chopped 6 out for neatness...

under this cut )

Feedback is good for my soul and low on calories...
curiouswombat: (curious Legolas)
I wrote a short fic last year, in my Returnverse, called The Right Kind of Shield. A few people, in various places where it was posted, asked for a bit more. And so, when I reached this part of the timeline uploading the stories at Faerie, I decided to write part two.

As it relates to the wager mentioned in the last line of the original, it has become what someone at Twisting the Hellmouth called a smutlet, I fear... :)

The Right Kind of Shield, Part Two
Rated - NC17
Word count - 2170

is under here )
curiouswombat: (Starlight trees)
OK - you asked for it!

And lo! Here it is. Tindómë wondered just what Galanthir might do to keep Legolas from melancholy on the night after Aragorn's funeral... and a couple of other people said that they wondered, too...




Taking Comfort.
Rated 15
1,590 words


Disclaimer: The characters in this story do not belong to me, but are being used for amusement only, and all rights remain with the estate of JRR Tolkien.

Taking Comfort )
curiouswombat: (Summertime)
I've just uploaded my Tolkien BigBang story - all 27,977 words of it, plus illustrations by [livejournal.com profile] ellynn_ithilwen, ready for 'opening day' on Monday.

But there is one more 'Small Return' short story that I need to get posted before that - as it is relevant to the story line of the BigBang piece - as was 'Voices in the Wind'.

Here it is - In this story Haldirin is ninety three – in elven terms of maturity he is just out of adolescence - a bit like a young man in his late teens, maybe twenty.

First Kiss
620 words
Rated 13


First Kiss )
curiouswombat: (Autumn)
I'm not sure if anyone can see this, even if it posts, the way poor LJ is being brought to its knees again.

This is a short story in the Returnverse - featuring Rumil and Haldirin in particular. Haldirin is a 'young teenager'.

It could well be subtitled 'If you go down to the woods again...'

Title; Voices in the Wind.
Rating; 13
Word count; 3,450
Beta as usual - Speaker-to-Customers.

Voices in the Wind )

Not only is feedback greatly appreciated, but it will let me know some of the rest of the world is still alive...
curiouswombat: (Autumn)
I have two or three short stories that I have written alongside writing the BigBang fic - or that won't really make sense when I post it. This is the first of them - it is set in Eryn Ithil about 70 years after the end of the Ring War - 20 or so years after the events of 'The Right Kind of Shield'.

Please point out any errors - even S2C is not infallible - if he was he'd be the pope.


Harvest Moon
Word count; 2,600
Rating; 15
Beta; Speaker-to-Customers

Summary - Haldirin is now a young adult - something happens to make Tindómë consider increasing the size of the family...

Warnings - mention of death from old age, and conception!

Harvest Moon )

In other news - D-d got to Madrid, and got to the gate for the outgoing flight in time - so is currently on her way to Buenos Aires about 36 hours later than expected, but on her way.
curiouswombat: (curious Legolas)
This is another short story, set in the Returnverse, where Legolas learns the importance of the right kind of shield. It is a response to one of the Shmoop Bingo prompts - even though I never did get around to completing them. I'll tell you the prompt at the end.

Because I am almost as anally retentive about word count as my beta (put it down to all the drabbles I write) - this is exactly 1,000 words long.

It is a companion piece to The Man in Black - timewise.

Title; The Right Kind of Shield.
Word count; 1,000
Rated PG
Characters; Legolas, Tindómë (previously known as Dawn).

click here )
curiouswombat: (Tindome 2)
This is a short story in the Returnverse. It is especially for this time of year - and is set a couple of winters after Brotherhood. This means that Tindómë (Dawn) and the Galadhrim brothers have decided that, when the other Galadhrim relocate to East Lorien, they will go, instead, to Legolas' settlement in Ithilien - but the moves are not yet made.



Title: A Tale in the Hall of Fire.
Word Count: 2,014
Rated PG

Under here )
curiouswombat: (Hop tu Naa)
I'm posting this this evening as I am off-island tomorrow and will probably be tired tomorrow evening as well as only on my netbook.

The challenge was to produce something 'steeped in the lore of Halloween/Samhain/Walpurgis'. I'm not 100% sure I've done exactly that; you will have to read to see if I have fulfilled the challenge!

The Man in Black
2,350 words
Rated; PG
Set in the Returnverse
Starring; Haldirin
(son of Dawn aka Tindómë and Rumil) now at the equivalent in age to a human 11 year old boy. Minor walk on parts by other Tolkienverse characters....

click for the fic )

More tomorrow about the trip away!
curiouswombat: (Summertime)
This is another short fic, set in the Returnverse, using a Shmoop Bingo prompt - I'll tell you what the prompt is at the end.

This particular little story takes place during Dawn/Tindómë's visit to Ithilien at the very end of Brotherhood - so she is a little over twenty. She met Galanthir in 'Brotherhood...

I have fun with the word count - so the actual story really is exactly 1,000 words long.

Title; Strawberry kisses
Rated; FR13
Word Count 1,000


Strawberry Kisses )
curiouswombat: (Tindómë)
I have been writing in the Returnverse using some of the Schmoop Bingo prompts. I'm not sure I'll ever get my Schmoop Bingo card completed, but I have been prompted to write some shortish pieces. Some of them are fill-in bits, and one or two will be after the time of the longer stories written so far. This is a fill-in.

Despite the title this is not the angst-bunny fic that has been bullying me to be written - that is only about 1,200 words long yet, this is just a short and schmoopy piece. I'll say what the actual promp was at the end.

Title; Mortally Ill.
Characters; Dawn/Tindómë, Rumil, Orophin.
Rating; G
Word count; 500. Exactly.

Mortally Ill )

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