Muse's Playground

Title: Pork Chops and Apple Sauce
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: General
Length: Ficlet
Summary: The Gamgee children prepare a special meal for the Gaffer's birthday.


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Title: Nibbler
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: General
Length: Ficlet
Summary: The Gamgee children find a stray kitten and take it home.


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Title: If I Were a Dark Lord
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: Humor
Length: Ficlet
Summary: Sam's children discuss the follies of the Dark Lord and how they would have done things differently.


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Title: A Long-Expected Party
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: Humor, General
Length: Short story
Summary: Pippin and Merry plan high-jinx at Bilbo's Birthday Party


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Title: Flights of Fancy
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: General
Length: Ficlet
Summary: Why didn’t the Eagles just fly the Ring to Mordor? Sam’s children, niece and nephew think they know why.


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Title: Lily Gamgee
Rating: G
Warning: Mild Angst
Genre: General
Length: Ficlet
Summary: The professor originally intended Rose and Sam to have fourteen children, the last child being Lily. He later decided that they should outnumber the Old Took by only one child instead of two, and removed Lily from the family tree. Which begs the question, whatever happened to Lily Gamgee?


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Title: The Twelve Days of Yule
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: General
Length: Ficlet
Summary: Preparations for Yule, the year before the Quest. This is a series of mostly tribbles. The fourth is 400 words (just happened that way, and I couldn’t find 100 words to cut out of it), and the last two are 500 words each. They feature our four main hobbits, their relatives and friends, including a few OCs, some of whom haven’t been seen in a while. These tribbles are set during the Yule before the Quest.


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Title: The Birthday - Hobbiton
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: General
Length: Short Story
Summary: Written for Marigold’s Challenge 36. The challenge this time was to write about any third anniversary, and my elements were to include embroidered braces (suspenders), ginger wine and thunder. Companion Piece to The Birthday - Minas Tirith.
Betas: marigoldg and llinos


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Title: By Any Other Name
Rating: G
Warning: None
Genre: Drama
Length: Ficlet
Summary: This story takes place shortly after the epilogue of A Tale That Grew in the Telling. It was inspired by Frodo’s drabble in The Master of Bag End, which was in turn inspired by “A Tale”.
Awards: MEFA 2006, nominated


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