Words of Whimsy and Wit by Lferion

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Fanwork Notes

Many thanks to the denizens of the SWG discord, especially Bunn (for updates on the Wandering Walrus of Wales) and KayleeArafinwiel, for encouragement and several excellent ideas.

Can also be found on AO3 here.

Fanwork Information

Summary:

Fills for the March 2021 Silmarillion Writer's Guild bingo challenge, based on W words edited by JRRTolkien from the Oxford English Dictionary. Poems, drabbles and half drabbles ranging from silly to solemn.

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Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Experimental, Fixed-Length Ficlet, Poetry

Challenges: Words of Wit and Wisdom

Rating: General

Warnings:

Chapters: 3 Word Count: 958
Posted on 10 April 2021 Updated on 10 April 2021

This fanwork is complete.

Table of Contents

Horizontal

Five rows in two pairs of half drabbles and a full drabble

Vertical - Poems of Fun and Fancy

Five half drabble verses, each of which can stand alone, one for each column.

Diagonal and So Forth

A half drabble with all the words on the card and then some

The two diagonals as pairs of half drabbles

A 4-square postage stamp drabble: Words for Wally, the Wandering Walrus of Wales

Comments

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What a wild welter of whimsy!

Ok, that's about as many w words as I can work into a coherent comment, but these are delightful. And I enjoyed how you organized them into horizontal, vertical, and diagonal.