First Line Meme
Snagged from half of my f-list. ;-)
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. When Aragorn reined in his horse in front of the stables, he immediately spotted the elf who was already waiting for him a short distance away, leaning against the trunk of a majestic beech tree.
2. “Hold it steady,“ Legolas ordered calmly.
3. “Look what I can do!” a shrill, excited voice cried, startling both the boy and the elf, who were sitting on a bench in front of a small, rather shabby looking cottage at the edge of the village, soaking up the warm rays of the afternoon sun.
4. “What is it about you and cliffs?“ a disembodied voice wanted to know from somewhere inside the pitch-black darkness.
5. “You should not be the one who is injured,” Halbarad stated gruffly, keeping his gaze fixed on the tree in the distance he had chosen to be their next destination.
6. “It is only a simple arrow,” Legolas stated, his voice quivering slightly.
7. King Elessar was standing at the window of the bedroom he shared with his queen, his eyes resting on a dark stone laying on the windowsill.
8. “I should have known I would find you here,” Aragorn commented, dragging his weary body up onto the wooden platform, which had been built so high up between the branches of the mighty tree that it almost seemed to be possible to reach out and touch the sky from here.
9. Everything was different.
10. Halbarad could not help smiling at the sight that greeted him when he stepped out of the forest into the small meadow.
11. Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm, rose right in the middle of a rather pompous speech from one of the visiting delegates from Esgaroth.
12. “I am sorry.”
13. Legolas raised his hand to knock on the familiar wooden door in front of him, but then he hesitated, his hand hovering in mid-air.
14. The small cottage lay on a gently rising slope, halfway between the village it belonged to and the dark forest, which surrounded the houses in a half-circle.
15. The first thing he became aware of was pain, a dull, throbbing pain.
16. All seasons were beautiful in Imladris, but autumn had its own special magic.
17. Aragorn leaned back comfortably against the boulder behind him, watching the dancing flames of the campfire in front of him.
18. “You will have to travel far,“ Legolas stated, his thoughtful gaze resting on the horizon as if trying to catch a glimpse of the lands that lay hidden beyond the Misty Mountains.
19. “If you knew, without a doubt, that death would come to claim you during the next years, would you choose to wait for it to take you, or meet it on your own terms?”
20. Aragorn walked slowly along the remains of the Deeping Wall, staying out of the way of the Rohirrim, who were working hard gathering the bodies of both men and orcs, to take them either to the greensward between Helm’s Dike and the Deep, where the fallen riders of Rohan would be buried in two burial mounds, or further out into the Deeping Coomb, where the orc corpses were piled in great carrion heaps.
Not sure if there's much of a pattern here... but Halbarad shows up more often than I thought, and I was surprised how much Aragorn there is in my first sentences. That many of my first sentences have either Aragorn or Legolas in them is no surprise, however. *g*
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. When Aragorn reined in his horse in front of the stables, he immediately spotted the elf who was already waiting for him a short distance away, leaning against the trunk of a majestic beech tree.
2. “Hold it steady,“ Legolas ordered calmly.
3. “Look what I can do!” a shrill, excited voice cried, startling both the boy and the elf, who were sitting on a bench in front of a small, rather shabby looking cottage at the edge of the village, soaking up the warm rays of the afternoon sun.
4. “What is it about you and cliffs?“ a disembodied voice wanted to know from somewhere inside the pitch-black darkness.
5. “You should not be the one who is injured,” Halbarad stated gruffly, keeping his gaze fixed on the tree in the distance he had chosen to be their next destination.
6. “It is only a simple arrow,” Legolas stated, his voice quivering slightly.
7. King Elessar was standing at the window of the bedroom he shared with his queen, his eyes resting on a dark stone laying on the windowsill.
8. “I should have known I would find you here,” Aragorn commented, dragging his weary body up onto the wooden platform, which had been built so high up between the branches of the mighty tree that it almost seemed to be possible to reach out and touch the sky from here.
9. Everything was different.
10. Halbarad could not help smiling at the sight that greeted him when he stepped out of the forest into the small meadow.
11. Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm, rose right in the middle of a rather pompous speech from one of the visiting delegates from Esgaroth.
12. “I am sorry.”
13. Legolas raised his hand to knock on the familiar wooden door in front of him, but then he hesitated, his hand hovering in mid-air.
14. The small cottage lay on a gently rising slope, halfway between the village it belonged to and the dark forest, which surrounded the houses in a half-circle.
15. The first thing he became aware of was pain, a dull, throbbing pain.
16. All seasons were beautiful in Imladris, but autumn had its own special magic.
17. Aragorn leaned back comfortably against the boulder behind him, watching the dancing flames of the campfire in front of him.
18. “You will have to travel far,“ Legolas stated, his thoughtful gaze resting on the horizon as if trying to catch a glimpse of the lands that lay hidden beyond the Misty Mountains.
19. “If you knew, without a doubt, that death would come to claim you during the next years, would you choose to wait for it to take you, or meet it on your own terms?”
20. Aragorn walked slowly along the remains of the Deeping Wall, staying out of the way of the Rohirrim, who were working hard gathering the bodies of both men and orcs, to take them either to the greensward between Helm’s Dike and the Deep, where the fallen riders of Rohan would be buried in two burial mounds, or further out into the Deeping Coomb, where the orc corpses were piled in great carrion heaps.
Not sure if there's much of a pattern here... but Halbarad shows up more often than I thought, and I was surprised how much Aragorn there is in my first sentences. That many of my first sentences have either Aragorn or Legolas in them is no surprise, however. *g*