Shadow's Instadrabbles by daughterofshadows
Fanwork Notes
Each chapter will include which insta-drabble session the drabble came from and the prompts (where I was able to backtrace it).
Check the individual chapter notes for warnings and a brief summary of the drabble.
Fanwork Information
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Summary: The home of my insta-drabbling pieces! (and the odd drabble of undetermined origin) Major Characters: Original Character(s), Amarië, Anairë, Arwen, Bilbo Baggins, Celeborn, Celebrían, Eärwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Elrond, Elu Thingol, Finarfin, Gil-galad, Mahtan, Melian, Nerdanel, Thranduil, Rog, Eärendil, Celebrimbor, Ilmarë Major Relationships: Genre: Fixed-Length Ficlet Challenges: Festival of Lights Fest, Holiday Party, It Comes in Threes, Jubilee, Middle-earth Olympics, Orctober, Potluck Bingo, Restoration and Rebuilding, Strength and Beauty, Taboo, Teen Spirit, Vintage, Zingers Rating: General Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings This fanwork belongs to the series |
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| Chapters: 41 | Word Count: 4, 145 |
| Posted on 3 January 2022 | Updated on 27 January 2025 |
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Prompt: river, smile, warmth, memory (Session: 25.04.2021)
I used all but river.
Experiences of the elves crossing the Helcaraxe.
Warnings for Helcaraxe related deaths, like freezing, and falling into the ice, but there are no graphic descriptions.
Rated: Teen and up
Prompt: lawn, sunlit, riddle, daisy (Session: 25.04.2021)
Bilbo spends an afternoon with Amarie and her children.
Rated: General
Prompt: image of snowdrops (Session: 25.04.2021)
Eärwen and a day in early spring
Rated: General
Prompt: miss, mountains, nineteen, bay (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Bilbo contemplates life on Tol Eressea
Prompt: symmetrical, bread, ribbon, fall (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Nerdanel struggles with the mystery of place-sets and gets distracted by Arafinwe who needs her help.
Rated: General
Prompt: insight, strategic, brave, lift (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Elladan, Elrohir and Arwen plan and execute a most important heist.
Rated: General
Prompt: swan, green, bridge, arch (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Eryn Lasgalen vs Lothlorien. A competition. Who will win?
Rated: General
Prompt: artistic, tumble, ring, balance (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Elrond is very stressed on his wedding day.
Rated: General
Prompt: finish, lemon, string, fortune (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Elu Thingol and Melian eat together. It is a bit disturbing. Melian learns that elvish traditions are confusing.
Rated: General
Prompt: rain, vault, flummoxed, sparkle (Session: 01.08.2021 Olympics)
Círdan gets wet, Ereinion thinks it's the coolest thing he's ever seen. Or something like this
Rated: General
Prompt: Day 5 - Never Have I ever (Session: 02.01.2022 Holidays)
I picked Celebrimbor, and got the prompt Celebrimbor has a premonition.
Celebrimbor dreams of light and doors and friends.
Rated: General
Prompt: Day 5 - Never have I ever (Session: 02.01.2022 Holidays)
Durin (III) has never watched a little elfling (or two or three). It is going... not too well. But hey! At least no one died!
Rated: General
Prompt: Day 23 - Dancing (Session: 02.01.2022 Holidays)
Taminalma and Rog share a moment in their new kitchen.
Rated: General
Prompt: Day 13 - Truth or Dare (Session: 02.01.2022 Holidays)
Mahtan was dared to say what he truly thinks of Feanor.
Rated: Teen and up for cursing
Prompt: Vintage Challenge - Art Card: Mosaic, Fanworks Card: Songfic
There is a mosaic in the Hall of Fire. A reminder of everything Rivendell was meant to be.
Rated: General
Song: Soon Love Soon by Vienna Teng
Written for the Zingers challenge, this chapter is an alternative take on one of my current TRSB fics, featuring Galdor, Nellas, Beleg and Mablung, though the last one is not named.
The prompt was:
"He would make a lovely corpse." - Charles Dickens
Prompt: An image of multiple abandoned houses, with broken windows. (Session: 20.08.2022 Restoration and Rebuilding)
In which Liandë, Caranthir's wife, returns to Formenos some time after the Flight of the Noldor and finds her life reflected in the ruins of her old home.
Rated: General
Prompt: Feeling good - Nina Simone (Session: 20.08.2022 Restoration and Rebuilding)
This is the aftermath of something. I'm not sure what. Maybe it's the aftermath of the sinking of Numenor, maybe it's the time after the destruction of the trees. Whatever you favour!
Rated: General
Prompt: Reborn by Kids see ghosts (song) (Session: 20.8.2022 Restoration and Rebuilding)
Gil-Galad leaves the Halls of Mandos and is greeted by someone unexpected.
Rated: General
Prompt: An image of a Kintsugi vase (Session: 20.08.2022 Restoration and Rebuilding)
An aunt, a nephew and a broken vase.
Rated: General
Prompt: Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination. - Jane Jacobs (belated contribution to the Restoration & Rebuilding Session)
What happened to the dwarven settlements in Belegost and Nogrod after the War of Wrath?
We know most of them left for Moria, but what about those that stayed behind?
Rated: General
For the Orctober Prompt: Anfauglith (The Long Thirst) based on the image going along with it, which showed an urn pierced by an arrow.
Rated General
Instadrabbling session 18.01.2025
Prompt: Comfort Food (Block Party)/Food & Drink (Holiday Party)
Rog and a long overdue homecoming. Also inspired by The Time for Flowers will come again by Emily Scott Robinson
Rated: General
Instadrabbling Session 18.01.2025
Prompt: A sky full of stars (Music of the Ainur Potluck Bingo Card), Only Starlight (Holiday Party)
Eärendil looks up at the stars.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session: 18.01.2025
Prompt: A picture of a fireweed in a desolated forest (Restoration & Rebuilding), Earth (Material Worlds Potluck Bingo Card)
Tauriel and the aftermath of the breaking of Dol Guldur.
Rated: General
Warnings for Grief and off-screen parental death
Instadrabbling session 18.01.2025
Prompt: A thousand feet of snow over my heart, Midwinter Potluck Bingo
Thranduil's spouse has died. The family grieves.
Rated: Teen
Instadrabbling Session 18.01.2025
Prompt: Strength & Beauty challenge prompt
"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony,
but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful,
strength has much to do with the magic."
~Herman Melville, Moby Dick
A young dwarf sees Khazad-dum for the first time.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session 18.01.2025
Prompt: A matter of pride
Celebrimbor struggles to take pride in his works.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling Session 18.01.2025
Prompt: Finduilas of Dol Amroth (Tell Her Story Potluck Bingo)
Finduilas haunts Minas Tirith.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling Session 18.01.2025
Prompt: Obscene Gestures (Taboo)
A wedding and cousins who don't want to behave.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling Session 19.01.2025
Prompt: Defying Gravity from Wicked
The first fireworks.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling Session 19.01.2025
Prompt: The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
Círdan contemplates the sea.
Rated: General
Notes: this is about loveless aromantic Círdan
Instadrabbling Session 19.01.2025
Prompt: Though the ink is running dry, we still insist to write upon the sky (Hunger by Robinson & Rohe)
Eärendil struggles with his task.
Rated: Teen for Angst
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: Coming out of the closet (Teen Spirit challenge)
Arwen comes out to Aragorn.
Rated: General
Aromantic Arwen
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompts: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in" (Verses by Leonard Cohen); Light & Different peoples, one Nation squares from the Hanukkah boards for the Potluck Bingo
Rivendell and its people have always been a place of hope.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: Beauties, Terrors, Sun, Power
Nerdanel and the first sunrise.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: From Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass: Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy.
A moment after the War of Wrath.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: This is a torch song. Touch me and you burn.
Arien changes after she is appointed to steer the sun.
Rated: General
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: Rock-Paper-Scissors (It comes in Three Challenge)
Rock-Paper-Scissors is an essential decision making tool in the House of Feanor.
Instadrabbling session 19.01.2025
Prompt: [character] with a sword at their throat
Death comes for Elúred. He wishes it would hurry up.
Rated: Mature for violence, character death
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