New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.

B2ME Day 24 - Animal Symbols. Maitimo wants to commission a special gift for his cousin, Findekano.

In response to the B2MeM 2011 challenge: Maglor's long life in thirty-one short vignettes.

B2ME Day 23 - Avoiding the Tower. Not all interactions between characters in Middle Earth are fraught with danger.

B2ME Day 22 - A story about refugees. Not all elves who left the east actually travelled to the West. A story of one of the "dark" elves.

B2ME Day 21 - East and West. The journey to the West is interrupted for one elf, for a very long time.

B2ME Day 20 - Making a Decision. A mother's request will affect the life and death of her son.

B2ME Day 19 - write a story featuring meetings or reunions. A horse adopts his boy in the spring.

B2ME Day 18 - a story detailing an act of kindness. A chance discovery by the patrol brings smiles to the face of the children of Vinyamar.

B2ME Day 17 - write a story featuring the exchange of gifts. A gift from Valinor ends up sailing the skies.

B2ME Day 16 - "A gentle breeze brushes the hilltop, combing the ruins..." Arafinwe returns to a place of great sorrow.

B2ME Day 15 - write a story that centers around food. An embarrassing incident goes down into Turukano's family history.

BwME Day 14 - explore rites or rituals. Feanor presents his son to the only Power that matters to him.

B2ME Day 13 - A story about prayers, pleas or requests unanswered. What if "someday my Prince will come" isn't always a good thing?

B2ME Day 11 - Sacrifices to achieve peace. A surprise action by Artanis ensures peace on a family vacation.

B2ME - Day 12 - Show how a different race appreciates nature. When a new area is excavated in Nargothrond, Finrod and Dawli are called in to examine it.

B2ME Day 10 - It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Watch out for what you wish for.

B2ME 2011 Day 9 - The clash between betrayal and loyalty as seen through the eyes of Olwe.

B2ME Day 8 - Connecting With One's Land or Culture. Why did Glorfindel choose the House of the Golden Flower as his house name?

For B2ME Day 7 Challenge - Overcoming Predjudice. Artanis has a lesson to teach her fellow students.

Did Melkor truly love the dark?

A place to store short stories, ficlets and challenge responses that don't really warrant being archived on their own.
Newly Added: "The Good and the Bad". Young Aragorn discusses Noldorin history with Erestor.

B2MeM 2011, 3/1, Seduction: Write a story where seduction plays a central role. Celeborn/Elu Thingol. Celeborn accepts that he has lost Elu to Melian the Maia. This may be read as existing in the same universe as my story Will Overruled by Fate wherein Celeborn admits to Haldir that he had loved Elu Thingol in his youth.

B2ME Day 5 - Isolation - What thoughts were Feanor's when he was banished to Formenos?

B2ME Day 4 - Conquiring Fear - How did this elf feel after the Doom of Mandos had been spoken?