written_leaves: (illumination)
To every thing there is a season

Title: This Shining Ember Burns my Hand
Characters: Beren and Luthien
Wordcount: 100

A/N: To everything there is a season - a small gem for Beren and his Luthien written for [livejournal.com profile] siradaono. Nominated for MEFA, 2010.

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When at last he met her eyes again it was like falling into the sea. Wild and shining and deep with an ancient love he could barely comprehend; a jewel of the heavens that he’d captured with the net of his heart. The star forever upon his brow.

Why, he wondered, were all the finest and brightest things in life so rendered with pain, if only in the knowing the years would so soon be lost?

She was a plucked flower in his hand, beautiful and perfect and beginning even now to die.

Yet it was she that had chosen.

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written_leaves: (illumination)
A piece written in appreciation for an oft-forgotten but very important character.

Title: The Passing of Fire
Characters: Cirdan, Gandalf
Wordcount: 1139
Summary: Cirdan of the Havens contemplates his choice of who will be the new bearer of Narya, the Ring of Fire.

A/N: I was always touched by Gandalf's great heart and the warmth and courage his role as bearer gave him. And yes, I am aware that book-Gandalf had dark eyes, I chose to go with movie-Gandalf's eyes instead only because they seemed more sympathetic to the sea.

Cirdan looked down upon the coils of smooth, wet rope that lay across his graceful hands... )
written_leaves: (bilbo)
Let's make another toast

Title: The Birthday Guest
Wordcount: 417
Summary: Another short scene as the result of a challenge to spring off of a bit of Tolkien's own verse. In this case, the viewpoint of a guest at the next September's birthday party.

Look at him over there, head of the table he is... )

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