A Beleriand Treasury

CLODIA'S SILMARILLION FIC:

( Wanderlust )
( Goldilocks and the Three Balrogs )
( Nightingales and Starlight )
( A Beleriand Treasury of Childish Tales (And Other Stories) )
( Blood and Fire )
( Warping Arda )
( The Journal of Alatáriel, Missionary )
( Down the Withywindle )
( Beneath the Sickle's Swing )
( The Loneliness of the Fishermouse )

FIC CONTRIBUTED BY CLODIUS PULCHER, THE FRIVOLOUS TWIN:

( Tolkien Fic )
( Good Omens Fic )
( Miscellaneous )

Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (5/5): Fishermouse
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Lindir, Glorfindel, Arwen, Elrond; in previous chapters: Celebrían, OC, Galadriel, Celeborn.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: In 2509, Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien... the rest, everyone knows. But this isn't about her. Not really. What remains for the bereaved but need and anger?
A/N: One final note of thanks to my beta, ignoblebard, without whom I might never have finished this story. ♥
Wordcount: 3700

leaf | dragonfly | galleon | coracle

( it was a clear, warm day )

THE END
The Fishermouse and the Earwig Admiral (A Children's Tale)
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Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (4/5): Coracle
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Galadriel, Celeborn, Glorfindel, Arwen; in previous chapters: Elrond, Lindir, Celebrían, OC.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: In 2509, Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien... the rest, everyone knows. But this isn't about her. Not really. What remains for the bereaved but need and anger?
A/N: As ever, many thanks to my patient beta, ignoblebard!
Wordcount: 3700

leaf | dragonfly | galleon |

( when he closed his eyes, he saw again the white smudge of Celebrían’s face )

On to Fishermouse
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Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (3/5): Galleon
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Glorfindel, Arwen, Celebrían, OC; in previous chapters: Elrond, Lindir; in future chapters: Galadriel, Celeborn.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: In 2509, Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien... the rest, everyone knows. But this isn't about her. Not really. What remains for the bereaved but need and anger?
A/N: Once again, many thanks to my patient beta, ignoblebard!
Wordcount: 4750

leaf | dragonfly

( a drink, a drink, and then another )

On to Coracle
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Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (2/5): Dragonfly
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Arwen, Lindir, Glorfindel; in previous chapters: Elrond; in future chapters: Celebrían, OC, Galadriel, Celeborn.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: In 2509, Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien... the rest, everyone knows. But this isn't about her. Not really. What remains for the bereaved but need and anger?
A/N: Again, many thanks to my beta, ignoblebard!
Wordcount: 3620

leaf |

( once we slept for a hundred years, and when we woke up, the world had changed... )

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Title: The Loneliness of the Fishermouse (1/5): Leaf
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Erestor, Elrond, Glorfindel, Arwen; in future chapters: Lindir, Celebrían, OC, Galadriel, Celeborn.
Rating: PG-13 (off-screen character death, non-graphic violence and gore).
Book/Source: Silmarillion, LOTR Appendices.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: In 2509, Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien... the rest, everyone knows. But this isn't about her. Not really. What remains for the bereaved but need and anger?
A/N: Someone once thanked me for a bit of beta-work on the grounds that, without me, "everyone might have lived happily ever after". I laughed until I remembered some of the story stubs on my To Be Written list, especially this one. It's taken a long while to write - three and a half years, to be exact. So many thanks to my beta, ignoblebard, without whom I might have kept putting it off forever!
Wordcount: 4300

In 2509 [Third Age] Celebrían wife of Elrond was journeying to Lórien when she was waylaid in the Redhorn Pass, and her escort being scattered by the sudden assault of the Orcs, she was seized and carried off...

( a bronze beech leaf was caught in an eddy )

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Author: clodia_metelli
Title: Far Down the Withywindle
Rating: G
Theme: January Potluck (February 2011's Hearts & Flowers)
Elements: unrequited love, great heart, lily (purity)
Author's Notes: A ficlet written for lotr_community's January Challenge. I am not Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: Old Tom Bombadil sits sighing by the Withywindle...
Word Count: 300

Down the Withywindle | Deeper down the Withywindle |

( Far down the Withywindle )

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Title: Warping Arda: Good as New
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Glorfindel, Glorfindel's father.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: One drabble written for engarian months ago, recently rediscovered in a dusty file.

Into the Woods | In Memoriam | Winter into Spring | Golden Flowers | Spectrum | Once Upon a Twilit Time | Eilinel | Adrift in the Ages | A Tangled Web |


Good as New

Later, many ages later, he held again the stone he’d etched with golden flowers so long ago. It was marred now: there were still red jewels and white ones glittering, but few of them had come from that beach at Alqualondë. He turned it over carefully in his hands. Here was one: the gleam was unmistakable. Someone had repaired the flowers with a metal that was not silver, for all its silver sheen.

“These scratches...” he said. “I could smooth –”

“No.”

“It could be good as new.”

His son shook his head. “You can’t smooth the past away,” he said.



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Title: World History/Lunch: 58 BC
Author: clodia_metelli
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Good Omens.
Summary: Lunch and world history collide. This one's all about the lunch, though. Given the diners, what else could it be?
Disclaimer: I own nothing and make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Word Count: 565

( There was a cookshop in the Subura where they made the best pies in Rome... )

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Title: The Poet Said
Author: clodia_metelli
Rating: PG-13
Book/Source: Good Omens.
Characters: War, Wilfred Owen.
Summary: A tiny snippet. War is, well, war. No guts, no glory?.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything and I make no profit from this.
Word Count: 230

( This isn’t how it was meant to be )

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Title: Linguistic Traps: Enriched Coiffeurs
Characters: Lord Rust, Lady Rust, Lady Selachii, Lady Venturi, anonymous watchmen.
Rating: PG.
Book/Source: Discworld.
Disclaimer: No profit is being made from this.
Summary: Another snippet of the misadventures of Ankh-Morpork's upper classes, prompted by Gogol and a coffer/coiffeur confusion once observed in the wild. (Note also a joke borrowed from The Producers, just because I can.)
Wordcount: 838

( Lord Rust was in the gallery when the watchmen called... )

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Title: Bad Pennies
Author: clodia_metelli.
Characters: Adam Young, Death.
Rating: PG (character death).
Book/Source: Good Omens
Disclaimer: No profit is being made from this.
Summary: Adam Young dies. Repeatedly.
Wordcount: 800

( Adam Young was twelve when Death came for the first time )

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Title: The Sixth Element
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Relmyna Verenim, Nanette Don.
Rating: R for gore, cannibalism.
Book/Source: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, the Shivering Isles
Disclaimer: No profit is being made from this.
Summary: It is rumored that screams of agony are carried away on the wind as it passes through Xaselm... for a very good reason. Because they are.
A/N: Another time I will know better than to explore Xaselm before dinner, oh my god. A seriously unpleasant place. Let this be a warning for anyone else who might do the same!
Wordcount: 624

( It is rumored that screams of agony are carried away on the wind as it passes through Xaselm )

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Title: Beneath the Sickle's Swing: After the Manner
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: The remnants of Melkor's Orcish hordes in the ruins of Utumno during Melkor's captivity.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Summary: One Orcish drabble written for tolkien_weekly's Hairdressing Challenge. This series has been nominated for MEFA 2011; many thanks, ignoblebard!

Beneath the Sickle's Swing | Thirst | Patience | Those Unhappy Ones | The Hideous Race |



After the Manner
Parting

So small, this new girl-child of his. Her downy hair was crisp with drying blood. He held her cradled in the crook of his arm and combed carefully through stiffening strands, thinking of the girl who’d gone to Othrod’s boy, long ago.

Her mother looked on with glazed eyes. She was in a fever already. He saw another parting coming, the hardest of all.

One more, he’d said. One more, when Othrod’s gang went to the wolves. One more might cost him both of them. A babe needed a mother’s milk.

Curly tugged at his elbow. “Da, what’s she called?”



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Title: Beneath the Sickle's Swing: The Hideous Race
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: The remnants of Melkor's Orcish hordes in the ruins of Utumno during Melkor's captivity.
Rating: PG-13
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Summary: Four Orcish drabbles written for tolkien_weekly's Hairdressing Challenge. Nominated for MEFA 2011; many thanks, ignoblebard!

Beneath the Sickle's Swing | Thirst | Patience | Those Unhappy Ones |



( Maker of Misery )
( Deep in Their Dark Hearts )
( Divers Shapes and Kinds )
( The Hideous Race )

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Title: Beneath the Sickle's Swing: Those Unhappy Ones
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: The remnants of Melkor's Orcish hordes subsisting in the ruins of Utumno during Melkor's captivity.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Summary: Written for tolkien_weekly's Hairdressing Challenge.
A/N: I am greatly indebted to the ever-awesome ignoblebard, who very generously nominated this series for MEFA 2011, thereby spurring me to get on with actually writing it. ♥

Beneath the Sickle's Swing | Thirst | Patience |



Those Unhappy Ones
Comb

Orcs:

Long ago, the world ended.

It ended in ice and stillness. There had been light: it was put out. There had been fire: it was extinguished. There had been screaming: it was silenced. There had been anguish: it lessened. There had been unending torment: it ended. There had been slavery: the chains were broken. There had been slave-drivers: they fell flaming. There had been an uncountable host: its remnants fled to hiding-places, scattered and afraid.

There had been prisons. Now there were ruins. The survivors combed through the wreckage and told dark tales of the world before its end.

Title: Among the Garbage and the Flowers
Author: clodia_metelli.
Rating: PG
Characters: Aziraphale/War.
Summary: Another snippet for the Viennese crossover of sorts, prompted by wormwood_7, although I don't know if this is what she had in mind. War and Aziraphale go for a walk by the Danube Canal.
A/N: Still basically crack, if a paler variety; still after Leonard Cohen, if a different song.
Word Count: 798

Brandy and Death | Wild on My Shoulder

( 'Will you look at that,' said War )

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Title: Tales of Older Days (8/8): Post Scriptum
Author: Clodius Pulcher *cough*
Characters: Erestor, A Heroine, An Urchin, A Villain, A Dragon Cub, HenchDwarves and Others. Reappearing in this chapter: A Joker, A River-daughter.
Rating: PG-13.
Book/Source: LotR, Silmarillion
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Note: My word, I seem to have finished this at last! Bet you didn't see that coming, did you? To ignoblebard and gogollescent I owe inspiration and encouragement, as ever. MEFA 2010 Second Place (Genres: Humor: Incomplete).
Summary: Disappointments in store for Lady Inez and the urchin both, I fear. Remember that long-anticipated trip to Imladris?
Wordcount: 3341



it was a dark and stormy night | the patter of tiny feet | indulge your local narrator | sleep under stone | inez and the machine | adventures of a most lurid kind | a shade repetitive

( post scriptum )

THE END (for now)
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Title: Tales of Older Days (7/8): A Shade Repetitive
Author: Clodius Pulcher *cough*
Characters: Erestor, A Heroine, An Urchin, A Villain, A Dragon Cub, HenchDwarves and Others. Appearing in this chapter: A Mariner, A Bird-Princess, Various Anonymous Valar. Reappearing in this chapter: An Alewife.
Rating: PG-13.
Book/Source: LotR, Silmarillion
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Note: To ignoblebard and gogollescent I owe inspiration and encouragement, as ever. MEFA 2010 Second Place (Genres: Humor: Incomplete).
Summary: Poor Mili. No one ever listens to a sensible henchperson, right?
Wordcount: 3988



it was a dark and stormy night | the patter of tiny feet | indulge your local narrator | sleep under stone | inez and the machine | adventures of a most lurid kind

( a shade repetitive )

On to Post Scriptum
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Title: Warping Arda: A Tangled Web
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Galadriel, Daeron, Erestor, OC, reflections of Melian.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make no money from this.
Summary: Six drabbles written for tolkien_weekly's Tangled Web challenge. From a frosty start to shared sorrows.

Into the Woods | In Memoriam | Winter into Spring | Golden Flowers | Spectrum | Once Upon a Twilit Time | Eilinel | Adrift in the Ages |

( Casting Off, Badly )
( Seamstress )
( Lacking Mordant )
( Unwinding Thread Once Spun )
( Weighted Warps )
( Pattern-Perfect )

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Title: Beneath the Sickle's Swing: Patience
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Thuringwethil, a couple of curious travellers.
Rating: PG
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Summary: Written for tolkien_weekly's Water Challenge.

Beneath the Sickle's Swing | Thirst |



Patience
The Sea

Only a bat.

So much more she had been, so much greater, before the Lord had gone over the Sea. So fierce in her hunger, so huge in her anger. She had sailed through endless night like the Dark Lord’s rage. Such creatures had fled screaming from the ragged shadow of her wings.

Resentful, Thuringwethil tracked the intruders to the rim of a broken stone staircase descending into the deeps of the pits. Frost glittered on the first step.

She settled under a nearby ledge and folded her wings around herself. She could wait. When they emerged...

... if they emerged...




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Title: Beneath the Sickle's Swing: Thirst
Author: clodia_metelli
Characters: Thuringwethil, a couple of curious travellers.
Rating: PG-13; some vampirishness, some remembered nastiness from Melkor's pits.
Book/Source: Silmarillion.
Disclaimer: I am not J.R.R. Tolkien and I make nothing from this but my own entertainment.
Summary: Written for tolkien_weekly's Water Challenge. Five drabbles of Thuringwethil fluttering through the ruins of Utumno during the years of Melkor's captivity...

Beneath the Sickle's Swing |



( Thirst )
( Dreaming )
( Sal(i)vation )
( Anticipation )
( Frustration )

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