My insurance is making me switch drugstores to get my prescriptions covered, so I decided to take care of that this morning. As I was standing in line to talk to the pharmacist, I realized that a small girl - maybe 4? I'm a terrible judge of age at that size - was staring disapprovingly at me. Our eyes met, and she said, quite distinctly, "Hair's ( Read more... )

Yes, Antonin Scalia is dead, and his death comes with timing that makes one side-eye the gods' sense of humor. And the usual things are being said on all sides, including people complaining that "speaking ill of the dead" is archaic and doesn't apply to really bad people and anyway those people are dead and can't be offended anyway ( Read more... )

A short fic, Thranduil/Bard. Set some days after the events of the Battle of the Five Armies.

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Two times Celebrimbor avoided his kin, and once he couldn't. Set at the end of the First Age, with apologies to purists for playing somewhat fast and loose with the timeline. ~3500 words.

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Or: three times that Idril Celebrindal had dealings with Celebrimbor, while Gondolin still stood. PG, and for once no warnings apply.

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A  drabble on the theme of elves and dwarves. Celebrimbor/Narvi ( Read more... )

Curufin and Celebrimbor, The Silmarillion (and others), approx. 1095 words. Father/son relationships.

Curufin sends his son to the forge to teach him patience.

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There are hawk shadows
On the pond. The air goes still.
The water empties.

The final piece of this tale, many years later…

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The next-to-last piece of this story, in which the minstrel makes a choice.

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