Name: Lurea lurea_aure
Title: Merry's Maying
Challenge: Hobbit Smut First Line Challenge
Word Count: 4930
Rating: NC-17
Pairing/s: Merry/OC
Other pairing/s: n/a
Warning/s: Het, fluff, immaturity, gas
Summary: In 1405, young Merry and Frodo go to the May Eve bonfire in Buckland, and Merry learns something new.
Notes: A huge thank-you to Notabluemaia for ( Read more... )

Well, my computer has been sick. Very sick. Blech. Luckily, hubby FINALLY managed to get it up and running, though he did mutter several imprecations directed at Compaq. ("Never again." "Next time, we're getting a Thinkpad." "Where's the stupid driver updates ( Read more... )

Well, it's the turtle time of year again--that point at which a turtle looks at a road, and thinks, "Hmmm--I wonder what's on the other side ( Read more... )

"The Ring? ...the least of rings, the trifle that Sauron fancies?"

Just what were the powers of the Ring? Tolkien tells us very little, but I have always wondered. I explored this issue a little for my new fic, Notes and Observations by Frodo of the Shire... Here at West of the Moon ...and these are some of my thoughts. Well, quite a few of ( Read more... )

I've been busy deconstructing some mystery novels so I would have a better idea of how to establish and maintain the kind of suspense I'm looking for in my mystery/suspense novel. Gahhh ( Read more... )

Something to cheer me up... I back-slid on my writing discipline over Spring Break and now am struggling to regain it.

Visiting Notabluemaia was fun, though! *waves* Hi, Nota!

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I will join in the nicknamey-ness. :D ( Read more... )

I did it, I did it, I did it! That's the Dora Explorer Happy Accomplishment song, for those of you without children... :D

I finished my LOTR challenge story, for Marigold. This is the first thing I've posted for a looooong while, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out.

It's hereI regard it as a good omen for my other new story, much ( Read more... )

I went to go see ROTK last night and realized something--these movies are so good, I'm now completely reconciled to ALL the Arwen bits. (Don't ask me about the Warg battle in TTT, though). I cried when she saw Eldarion, at the 'crownless' again shall be king' and found myself wishing we'd had her line to Frodo. siiiigh

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I got all enthusiastic over baylorsr's discussion questions today. It got me thinking about inheritance in the Shire and the parallels between that and ancient England's laws, which I've only recently come upon in some of my reading ( Read more... )