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Legendarium Ladies April 2019
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Published:
2019-04-02
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2019-06-08
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Out of the Woodwork

Summary:

Prompt Fills for 2019's Legendarium Ladies April, focusing on the women of Tolkien's works, both named and unnamed.

Notes:

Here I am, on my fourth try at Legendarium Ladies April. I have never actually completed a challenge, as much as I really want to, because April tends to be a difficult month for me. Each year, I've tried to think of something that I'm likely to be able to finish in spite of not having much time or energy, and each year it's still too much.

So this year, I'm setting the bar about as low as I can think: 100-word drabbles. And hopefully this year, at last, I'll make it to the very end of the challenge (spoons willing).

Please enjoy this collection--its contents will be as much of a surprise for me as it will be for you. :D

(Picture Prompt)

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Chapter 1: Woodwoman

Chapter Text

The snowdrops tell her that there will be a spring. The crocuses tell her that it will be soon.

Travellers through Mirkwood think only the Elves can truly read its signs. She may be human, but she, too, is a daughter of Mirkwood, and she has lived under the shelter of its branches her whole life. She walks the forest's paths with sure foot and knows its beasts and blossoms both. She is a Woodperson. She will never leave these lands.

Spring will be soon. She turns her face to the stars sparkling between the bare branches and she smiles.