To quote Monty Python's Flying Circus: "And now for something completely different..."

I've been posting some pretty angsty stuff here of late, and so I thought I'd bring this out to show that I'm not always into making my readers sniff as they read. This week, I'm aiming for outright guffaws.

But, there's a story behind this story.

When I was in the process of working toward my Stubborn Limpet award in GoI (posting a minimum of 100 original, new words every consecutive day for 100 days) by writing drabbles, one of the bits I posted about Thranduil sparked a very interesting conversation among the members. It tickled my funnybone so that I wrote a crack!fic to allow Thranduil to "answer" the ladies in question. The comebacks I got from that inspired yet another crack!fic less than a day later.

In going through my hard drive not long ago, I found that set of crack!fics, and I've smoothed out some of the rougher edges to make it suitable for public airing.

And so, without further ado...

( Thranduil's Dilemma )

While I have an Internet connection that seems to be working, I thought I'd get this posted.

( In The House of Elrond - Chapter 17 - Please Come Home )

It's time to start drawing this story to a close.

( In The House of Elrond - Chapter 15 - The End of the Dream - (part 1 of 2) )

News Flash for my readers: I have finished this novel at last. The final chapter (not this one) and the Epilogue will be working their way through my online workshops for beta nit-picking, but the upshot of this will be that I will be posting on this story weekly until it is finally done.

That said, on with the chapter...

( In The House of Elrond - Chapter 13 - Holiday Visit Pt. 1/2 )

The following was my submission for the ALEC November 2010 challenge, the theme of which was "Things That Go 'Bump' in the Night". I shared the second place slot with two other very fine stories. If you have not visited the ALEC website, or perrused the story submissions there, I urge you to check things out:

A Long-Expected Contest

And now, without further ado...

( To Walk a Dark Land )

We've come to the end of this little tale.

( Second Chances - Chapter 4 - Epilogue )

Here's the next part of this one.

( Second Chances - Chapter 2 - A Safe Place )

Here is the second part of this three-part chapter. Things get... interesting.

( In The House of Elrond - Chapter 11 - Messages (Part 2 of 3) )

I have often wondered at Celeborn's fate. Did he ever cross the sea to be with Galadriel and Celebriel, or did he remain behind? Usually I have him crossing the sea eventually, but this plot bunny wanted to explore the less popular alternative.

( New Roots )