Caprice and Chance

May 2019 SWG challenge banner includes two heart-shaped nebulae and the quote Romantic love bears the stamp of caprice and chance

This month's challenge is a Matryoshka challenge based on the sultry, swoony tropes of that perennial favorite for beach reading, the bodice-ripper romance. Your fanwork does not have to be a romance story, but prompts will be loosely inspired by the plot arcs and tropes of these novels. (Please note that prompts are not romance-specific. Any genre of fanwork can be created based on these prompts.)

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Credit goes to TVTropes for much of the inspiration and many of the names of the prompts!

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Fanworks Tagged with Caprice and Chance

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Lord by Lferion

Fingon, Returned, still holds the fealty of many, unlooked-for. He's not sure what to do with it.

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Hewers of wood and drawers of water. by hennethgalad

an unwitting eyewitness struggles with the consequence.

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Through a Mirror Darkly by HannaGoldworthy

Year 2510 of the Third Age: Celebrian arrives in Valinor during Sovalle, a new (for her) feast of repentance and reconciliation.  And, much to her suprise and discomfort, she's not the only new face hanging around...

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Boundaries by Dawn Felagund

Fingon is constantly pushing Maedhros's boundaries, but this time, he has gone too far. Put on mandatory sick leave after an injury, Maedhros decides to spend his three weeks recuperating alone, setting Fingon on a chase across Aman to find and make amends to his lover ... and yes, transgress one more boundary, one more time. Maedhros/Fingon. Written for Oshun, for the occasion of her 100th character biography.

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The land of Beeches and Snowdrops by Raiyana

After the sacking of Doriath, the lands once girdled by Melian were abandoned.

Faerbraichon, Lord of House Brethil, went east in search of a new land for his Sindar Elves, a land far removed from the grief caused by the Silmaril Thingol had coveted. With him came his family - those who were left - and those for whom he was Lord.

Running into a Dragon was an unexpected complication.

But for one of his sons, it might turn out to be the source of new love, and for the rest of House Brethil, the meeting between their youngest Prince and a Woodland elleth will eventually lead to the formation of the largest Elven Kingdom in Arda and the establishment of a new home.

The Great Green-Wood.

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that which is given by Fernstrike

Tyelperinquar knew Annatar was keeping something from him.

In which goodbyes are said, gifts are given, and promises are made.

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Spark Joy by Grundy

Idril has something to tell her family, and she's starting with Maeglin.

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Encounters by Independence1776

Maglor encounters two people… and a pack of puppies.

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Destined to be together by Himring

In the Third Age, in a small coastal town of Gondor, a young girl has an encounter at a critical time for her.

A wandering Maglor story featuring an animal rescue.

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