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Title: Unmaking the Ring
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: Gollum
Summary: Gollum burns in the fires of Mount Doom.

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UNMAKING THE RING

At that last moment before his thin, gnarled body hit the swirling lava in Mount Doom, Gollum saw his entire life with perfect clarity. Smeagol and Deagol, brothers, friends, inseparable until that day, his birthday when he heard it call to him. The Ring, all shiny and gold and inviting. He took it!

His grandmother cast him out. No one he’d ever known would speak to him or even look at him. He had done the unthinkable, killed his own brother. He left all he had known, moved into the mountain where it was cold and dark.

He hadn’t cared for long. The Ring was all he needed, all he wanted. It loved him, his precious loved him. It called to him from afar when the dirty hobbit took it away and now he had it back. It was his once again! No one would ever take it away from him again! No one!

At the very last second, when he could feel the searing heat from below, he knew that he would soon be free. Free from pain, sorrow, hunger… free from the Ring.

At last!

He welcomed the flames as they engulfed him and burned the Ring away.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/161531.html

Title: Worship
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: The Temple of Melkor
Summary: Sauron builds a temple to his master. Or does he?

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Sauron built the Temple of Melkor and he taught men to worship and then he damned them all. He bade them sacrifice men on the altar, to kill their own kind in a show of devotion to Melkor, his master.

He smiled to himself. What they didn’t seem to understand was that Melkor wasn’t coming back and it was he, Sauron, who was the lord of darkness now and when they bowed before the bloodied altar to the fallen Vala, they really worshipped him instead.

He was the powerful new god of all evil. He stood to greet his followers.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/161187.html

Title: His Doom
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: Witch King of Angmar
Summary: The Witch king believes himself invincible.

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HIS DOOM

"Do not pursue him! He will not return to these lands. Far off yet is his doom, and not by the hand of man shall he fall." – Glorfindel

*

The Witch-king of Angmar had grown so strong that he believed was as indestructible as Sauron. The words of the elf remained in his mind, fooling him down through the years. His power was almost infinite! He had been what he now was for so long that he no longer remembered this name, or even that he’d had one.

This battle for his lord was just more of many. Soon, Sauron would regain his Ring, his power, and would reign supreme, the Witch-king by his side.

One more battle.

Minas Tirith would fall. Sauron would rise.

And so would he.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/160882.html

Title: In the Darkness
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: Spiders
Summary: The spiders are everywhere.

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IN THE DARKNESS

We watch, always, in the dark. Watching. Waiting. Hungry.

We are always hungry. Sweet treats in the forest! We catch them in our webs and keep them, letting fear make them taste sweet, savory… animals, children, hobbits…

We always hunger. For more. For it all. We want. We hunger…

Our webs are beautiful. So intricate, so sublime. Come closer! Look at the beauty. See the pattern. Closer still.

Come closer. Pain makes the meat sweet… fear makes it sweeter still. Come closer.

Can you see me in the dark? I can see you, so sweet, so close.

We watch always.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/160565.html

Title: Glaurung
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Glaurung
Summary: The dragon speaks.

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GLAURUNG

I am the Worm of Morgoth!

All in my path shall bow before me.

Or die!

I am the first minion of Morgoth and the most horrible! Death and pain follow me. Anguish and confusion are my weapons. None can escape my wrath!

Flee! I shall destroy you all!

None who come after me are as horrible by half. I am he who the mold is made from. All others are but a pale imitation of my own true terror. There is no victory in my death. Those who would kill me suffer more than I shall.

I am death!

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/160299.html

Title: Mirkwood
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Mirkwood
Summary: The Green Wood changed.

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Mirkwood

The forest was green and growing until he came, the necromancer, he without face and name. His footsteps shot tendrils of darkness that spread through the threes, changing them, imbuing them with a darkness from the roots up. The soil and trees spread the darkness to all who dwelled within them, all who bowed to the necromancer.

He built a home and other fell creatures came. The spiders, who whispered doom to their victims. Squirrels and rabbits are black night. Trolls and Orcs began to gather as well.

This evil drowned out the sun. Darkness reigned supreme.

For a time.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/160123.html

Title: The Dead Ride Behind
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Abandoned/Haunted House
Summary: The Dead of Dunharrow are freed.

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THE DEAD RIDE BEHIND

Yes, the Dead ride behind. They have been summoned," said Elladan.

They all felt them, the living beings come to their quiet home. In the many years their spirits had abided here, they had felt no heartbeat, no warmth. Only cold. Endless cold. They were the Dead Men of Dunharrow. No men had paid more dearly for their perfidy. Isildur had cursed them for their desertion and still they paid. Perhaps they’d pay for all time.

Eagerly they listened to the heir, eagerly they went, following him who was King uncrowned, Isildur’s heir. They made no sound that mortal ears could hear but they murmured to one another. Would he allow them to fulfill their oath at last? Would he honor it in the end? Would he?

They drove the enemy from the ships, they did as they were bid. The men of the south ran in terror and those who stayed, died. The men of Dunharrow finally came to Isildur’s aid, a thousand years tardy in their charge. Their army was more fearsome dead than it had ever been alive.

When it was done, they waited. Would he honor them finally? They longed for it yet never hoped they would leave their prison. The sword was broken. They were freed.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/159833.html

Title: Queen of the Night
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Berúthiel
Summary: Faramir sees a legend.

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QUEEN OF THE NIGHT

“You can see them on dark nights. Sailing toward Umbar, Queen Berúthiel and her cats.”

Parents told their children the story, never believing it true. It was just a scary story. Faramir had heard this tale all his life and never gave it a second thought until one night in late October. He couldn’t sleep and he went up to the top of the wall in the White City. As he sat and gazed out onto the Anduin flowing by, he saw her.

She stood at the helm of a long, dark ship, staring straight ahead. All around her were cats. None of them came anywhere near her. He wondered if she could possibly be as bad as the stories, so bad that her husband sent her home to her own people. He made her take her army of spies, her cats.

He wondered how old she was. Was she real or a ghost? Did she bear ill will to all?

She sailed out of sight.

The next night, he gazed out at the same hour and saw her yet again. This time she turned her head and looked at him. He shivered, feeling the cold to his very bones.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/159593.html

Title: Song of the Ring
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Creepy Songs/Circus
Summary: Sam can’t figure out where the music comes from.

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SONG OF THE RING

Samwise kept telling Frodo that he heard music, but Frodo heard nothing. Sam thought perhaps Frodo was so preoccupied with the Ring that he simply couldn’t think about anything else. He heard it both day and night and it was not pleasant music. It reminded him of funerals and death. It was very faint sometimes.

When Sam thought Frodo was dead, he took the Ring from him in order to finish the task, to throw it into the fires of Mount Doom. The music got louder and he knew. It had been the Ring calling to him all the time.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/159252.html

Title: Sauron’s Hope
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Sauron
Summary: Sauron finds a small hope.

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SAURON’S HOPE

Sauron screamed in fury as the Ring melted into the lava from which it had been made. Then he screamed in pain as his physical being began to dissolve. He felt himself shrinking, felt the power leave him, felt the Ring disappear.

He watched powerlessly as his fortress was razed and all he built died or fled. He was little more than a dark cloud by the end of the day.

But he still existed.

In existence he found hope. His Master would come again. He would be restored and darkness would fall on all these piteous creatures once more.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/159075.html

Title: The Ghosts of Mordor
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October Challenge: Mordor
Summary: Legolas and Gimli visit Mordor.

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GHOSTS OF MORDOR

Neither said he wanted to go to Mordor but here they were.

The mountains still guarded the black land on three sides, but all of Sauron’s gates were gone. Mount Doom lay quiet now. Puffs of dark smoke rose from its depths every now and again. Barad-dûr was nothing but rubble now, what of it that hadn’t been completely destroyed by the volcano when it erupted.

“Can you feel them still, lad?” Gimli asked his elven companion.

“I can almost make out their whispers,” Legolas answered in a low voice.

They rode on, leaving the ghosts of Mordor behind them.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/158905.html

Title: Defeated in Victory
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG-13
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM’s Horrifying October: Balrog
Summary: Fingon knows he will die.

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DEFEATED IN VICTORY

Fingon, the High King of the Noldor, beloved and kind, wise and gentle, stood before the most horrible of all beings, Gothmog, Balrog of Morgoth. He knew it was over before it began. He did not dread the pain. He did not fear death. He felt sorrow for his people but he knew his suffering would soon end.

The Balrog laughed at the man before him. “You shall die!” He could not strike down the elf though, not until one of his companions came from behind and held him in a steely embrace. Gothmog struck, killing him quickly. He sought to draw from Fingon’s fear and pain. But there was no fear. The elf smiled at the last moment, then was gone.

Gothmog was so furious that he began to beat the dead body, imagining at every blow that Fingon laughed at him from above. He beat the body until there was little left but dust and a few metal buttons from his clothing. He beat the ground until even the buttons were ground to dust as well.

He still heard laughing. He had won the battle, won the war but he was defeated! Damn Fingon! Damn him to hell!

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/158655.html

Title: The Restless Dead
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: LOM Horrifying October: Depths of Moria
Summary: Moria is quiet but not deserted.

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THE RESTLESS DEAD

Moria was quiet. The Orcs had gone after Sauron was defeated. The dwarves had given up on restoring Moria to its former glory. The elves were almost gone from Middle Earth entirely. The mines were in ruins, as were the halls and rooms in the upper parts.

Moria was not uninhabited though. If living beings had been there, they might have seen them, the spirits of the dead.

There was no peace. There was no ending. They were trapped there for as long as Middle Earth existed. They roamed Moria’s interior endlessly, silently, seeking…

Seeking a rest that never came.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/158452.html

Title: Ancient Evil
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: PG
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 200 word Drabble
Note: For LOM Horrifying October: Werewolves
Summary: Sam is scared, very, very scared.

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Ancient Evil

He’d heard Gandalf mention them, but he’d thought they were simply a tale told to scare the little ones at night. Living in the Shire as he did, Sam had not seen a lot of things other than his fellow hobbits. He’d said when they started out he wanted to see oliphants and he still wanted to, but this thing, this werewolf – he wished he could unsee it.

It stood on two legs like a man or a hobbit but that was where the similarities ended. It was covered in fur and he could smell its stench from where he hid behind some bushes. It turned and sniffed the air, its long teeth showing even in the dim light. Sam was shivering so hard that he knew the awful thing could hear him!

It turned its head to the sky and howled, a long haunting sound that reminded Sam of all the evil he’d ever heard of. Sam opened his mouth to scream and –

He woke up! It was only a dream. Thank goodness!

Then he heard it. That horrible howl. Gandalf told the truth. There were werewolves out there. He clutched his sword close and waited until daylight came.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/158117.html

Title: Right on Target
Author: Alexcat
Type: FCS
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from the use of these characters.
Warnings: None
Beta: Erviniae
Pairing: Haldir/Glorfindel
Archive: OEAM, Ao3
Author’s Note: For the 2016 Sultry in September challenge. For Jane.
Spoilers: No
Summary: Haldir is sent to Imladris to teach archery.

~~~

( Right on Target )

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/157871.html

Title: New Home, Old Memories
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: An August Drabble
Summary: Sam is moving into Bag End.

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NEW HOME, OLD MEMORIES

Sam walked from one end of the house to the other, looking in this cupboard and that, checking the pantry and looking out the front window. Though he’d been here countless times, this was the first time he’d been here since it belonged to him. He and Rosie would move here soon, as soon as they got everything packed.

First, he had to store the last of Frodo and Bilbo’s things.

He picked the book and read. Tomorrow would be a better day to pack up anyway, he thought as he got lost in his own memories of the past.

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/156741.html

Title: Vacation
Fandom: Tolkien
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from these characters.
Rating: G
Author: Alex (alex_cat_45@yahoo.com)
Type: 100 word Drabble
Note: August 2016 drabble
Summary: Arwen is not a happy camper.

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VACATION

Arwen stood in the kitchen and stated at the woodstove. What was she supposed to do with it? She could make remedies and even still do a little magic, but she had no idea how to make dinner on this, this stove!

Why did Ellessar insist on coming to this little hut in the woods two or three times a year? They had everything they needed at home. He had no real need to hunt and fish and swim in that cold, cold pond.

The children loved coming here though. They followed their father everywhere.

He could bake the bread!

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/154956.html

Title: All That had been Fair
Author: Alex
Type: FCG, FCS
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from the use of these characters.
Warnings:
Pairing: Bilbo/Kili
Archive: Ao3, Alex’s story Book and OEAM
Author’s Note: Requested pairing = Fili/ any Company member (Dwarf or Hobbit)
Story elements = any of the following: Body Art and/or scars, rite of passage, and if a 'happily ever after' ending doesn't suit the plot, then at least a 'content with life at the moment' ending.
I decided to write about Fili and Bilbo Baggins. The story did turn out to be more bromance than romance but it is a sweet one, in any event and I enjoyed following Mr. Baggins along to Rivendell. I used book canon as much as possible. For example, they stayed in Rivendell two weeks instead of just a day or so.
For Nuinzilien
Summary: Bilbo finds an unexpected friendship blooming in Rivendell.

~~~

( All That Had Been Fair )

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/150636.html

Title: Those Who Wander
Author: Alexcat
Type: FCS
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I Profit from the use of these characters.
Warnings: None
Beta: Ignoblebard
Pairing: Erestor/Gildor
Archive: OEAM Ao3, Alex's Story Book
Author’s Note: This for the 2015 Ardor in August
Spoilers: Yeah
Summary:The High King of the Noldor sends Erestor andf Gildor on a secret mission into a land far, far away.

~~~

( THOSE WHO WANDER )

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/142913.html

Title: Nimrodel’s Garden
Author: Alexcat
Type: FCS, Femslash
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I do not own nor do I profit from the use of these characters.
Warnings: None
Beta: None
Pairing: Nimrodel/Mithrellas
Archive: LoM, OEAM, Ao3, Alex’s Story Book
Author’s Note: This is for the International Day Femslash Alphabet Soup challenge at Lom. I got N for Nimrodel, Nevrast and Narcissus.
Spoilers: Yes, if you don’t know the story.
Summary: Mithrellas leaves her husband to find her true love.

~~~

( NIMRODEL’S GARDEN )

Crossposts: http://alexfic.livejournal.com/132775.html

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Entries tagged with tolkien

Drabble: Unmaking the Ring

Drabble: Worship

Drabble: His Doom

Drabble: In the Darkness

Drabble: Glaurung

Drabble: Mirkwood

Drabble: The Dead Ride Behind

Drabble: Queen of the NIght

Drabble: Song of the Ring

Drabble: Sauron's Hope

Drabble: The Ghosts of Mordor

Drabble: Defeated in Victory (Tolkien)

Drabble: The Restless Dead (Tolkien)

Drabble: Ancient Evil (Tolkien)

Fiction: FCS: Right on Target (Tolkien)

Drabble: New Home, Old Memories (Tolkien)

Drabble: Vacation (Tolkien)

FIC: All That Had Been Fair

FIC: Those Who Wander (LOTR)

FIC: FCS: Nimrodel's Garden, R, Nimrodel/Mithrellas