LOTR Community Challenges

Author: Dreamflower
Title: Reach for the Stars
Rating: G
Theme: Thinking Outside the Box
Elements: random words—die, mellow, juice
Author's Notes: The challenge was to write in a format, style or genre different than what I've written before. Well, I got to thinking about it, and the one thing I had never written was an AU that places the characters in an entirely different milieu. And I started imagining LotR as a sort of steampunkish futuristic space opera. To keep it from getting totally out of hand, I decided to do something else I haven't tried before—each chapter is a different specific fixed length: the first chapter is 100 words, the second, 200, the next, 300, etc. I don't know how well it will do as a story—but it is certainly outside MY box. (Although, well, it's still got hobbits.)
Summary: A familiar story in another time, another place altogether…
Word Count:1,500


Reach for the Stars
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Title: The Life And Times of Rushirithir (working title: other ideas from sparx "postcards from the void", "confessions of fire")
Author: Kaylee Arafinwiel
Summary: The beginnings of the Balrog of Moria...the very beginning, that is. And the end. And the middle, of course...though the middle was longest in coming. Go figure..
Elements: barter, yellow, water.
Warning: Dark, aka not at all my usual type, which is, of course, the point of a "Think Outside The Box" challenge.
A/N: I am indebted to Fiondil, whose character Rushirithir the Umaia has been used here as the true name of the Balrog of Moria, with permission. I do not claim that this is what my atar indonyo plans to do with Rushirithir (though it makes a ton of sense for a character named "Fire-Light" in Valarin.) Melkor (albeit named "Mbelkoro", his earliest Quenya name), will figure prominently in the early story.
Manawenuz is the Valarin name of Manwe.
Ulluboz is Valarin for Ulmo.

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Title: The Life And Times of Rushirithir (working title: other ideas from sparx "postcards from the void", "confessions of fire")
Author: Kaylee Arafinwiel
Summary: The beginnings of the Balrog of Moria...the very beginning, that is. And the end. And the middle, of course...though the middle was longest in coming. Go figure..
Elements: barter, yellow, water.
Warning: Dark, aka not at all my usual type, which is, of course, the point of a "Think Outside The Box" challenge.
A/N: I am indebted to Fiondil, whose character Rushirithir the Umaia has been used here as the true name of the Balrog of Moria, with permission. I do not claim that this is what my atar indonyo plans to do with Rushirithir (though it makes a ton of sense for a character named "Fire-Light" in Valarin.) Melkor (albeit named "Mbelkoro", his earliest Quenya name), will figure prominently in the early story.
Manawenuz is the Valarin name of Manwe.
Ulluboz is Valarin for Ulmo.

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