Title: Restive
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Elrohir/Legolas
Prompt: 012. Orange
Word Count: 1259
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: The imminence of a long awaited reunion stokes the ever glowing embers of impatience into a steady blaze. Part 29 of Prior Claim. 

( Restive )

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My first fic update in months and it turns out smuttier than I originally intended. *shakes head*

Title: Finally
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Glorfindel/Elladan, Elrohir, Celebrían, Elrond
Prompt: 006: Hours
Word Count: 1797
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: Whether the passage of time feels slow or fast oft has to do with what one is waiting for. Part 28 of Prior Claim.     

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Nothing could be truer for me. I will always be grateful for the friendship, support and laughter so many of you shared with me.

In other news, I'm currently working on the next installment of Prior Claim. It took quite a bit of effort to get back into the mood and immerse myself once more in the LotR universe but the thrill of writing is finally back. You can't imagine how pleased I am about that. Though how I managed to find time to write anything at all between edits I’m not quite sure myself. Did I mention edits? Oh yes, with regard to my last post...

I wrote an original novel last year. The plot and premise germinated way back in my college days. But I didn't think such themes were publishable so I placed the whole thing on the back burner. Eventually, LotR slash fanfic afforded me a wonderful outlet to indulge my propensity for M/M fantasy romance. The emergence of epublishers however and their willingness to publish material that are outside the box spurred me to return to my almost forgotten story and finish it. Dear gloromeien  critiqued it for me and I'm sure she spotted at least one very obvious acknowledgment of my years in the LotR fandom.  

To my delight, the novel was accepted by one of the established epubs I queried. So I’d been working on it with my editor and now that’s done and the manuscript is going through proofreading. I’m leery of going into more detail about it before I have a definite publication date. Things go wrong all the time, Murphy's Law and all that. But long story short, that was my other big reason for being remiss with my updates. Anyway, I hope you'll forgive me for the long delay. 

Hello everyone! Anybody miss me? It feels like forever since I last updated.

My family's still coping with our loss but we're starting to climb out of the gloom and doom that enveloped us those first few weeks after my father passed away. I'm coping though there are times I feel like curling up in a quiet corner and having a good cry. Thank God for prayer and the presence of my husband, sons and ever affectionate shih tzu.  

I hope to get back into the writing mood very soon and I was in fact re-reading all my stories just last week to immerse myself once more in the LotR universe. (Well, my version of said universe.) However, certain news lifted my spirits immensely but also proved quite a distraction. It was a necessary distraction though and I can't complain in the least about the cause of it.  

Which brings me to the following question: Did you all mean it when you said that if I ever got a book published you'd buy it?

Thank you to everyone for your prayers and messages of care and comfort. It will be a long time yet before my family's pain and grief lessens to a bearable degree but the mere knowledge of people's concern and readiness to offer a shoulder to cry on helped us take those first difficult steps toward acceptance and healing. I wanted to thank everyone individually but I feel too overwhelmed right now to attempt it. I hope this suffices. However, I have to make special mention of sian265  who sent me a lovely ecard and aglarien1 for including me in her prayer list unasked. And dear gloromeien, don't think I'm ignoring you. I'll respond to your emails as soon as I feel like myself again. That's a promise.

Again, thank you all for your support. I truly appreciate it.

My father passed away last Sunday. I can't begin to describe my family's grief and sense of loss. He was a loving and compassionate husband, brother, father, grandfather and friend with a wicked sense of humor and a raconteur's soul. And he held true to his values and beliefs even when it would have been easier or more expedient to compromise them.

My heart is too heavy, I can't write anything more eloquent about him. All I can say is that we already miss him terribly, he was such a wonderful and vital part of the fabric of our lives. We are grateful that his suffering is at an end and that he had an utterly peaceful expression on his face when he left us. He had often reassured us that he was not afraid of death because he knew he would simply be going to another, better place. He told me that first week of his confinement that the only thing that might be cause for worry would be missing all of us and especially my mom even in Heaven. It's a singularly comforting thought. But it can't lessen our sorrow over losing him or the shock that it was so sudden and soon. It will be a very long while before the pain and longing for his presence fades. If they ever truly do.  

My heartfelt thanks to everyone for your earlier prayers and well wishes in my family's time of need.

My apologies for the lengthy pause between updates.  My dad suffered a heart attack and had to undergo a multiple bypass.  Unfortunately, it's been one post-op complication after the other and he's been in the ICU ever since.  We're hopeful that he'll finally be transferred to a regular room if only to boost his spirits after seeing almost nothing but monitors and his medical team day after day.  In the meantime, I'm not exactly in the right frame of mind for writing. I'm not going to abandon Prior Claim, not when I have the story all plotted out already.  But I have to put it on hold until my dad's out of the woods.  So until then, please bear with me.  I hope you'll all still be around when I start posting again.

 

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it.  Thanks to sian265 for the virtual gift.  And thanks to all who commented on the previous entry.  Due to the even more frenzied pace of the holiday season I was unable to reply to them earlier but I will do so now even if it is overly delayed.   Good grief, even this update is delayed!  But better late than never as the saying goes.  So here's my Yuletide offering.  I do hope it pleases. 

Title: Collusion
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien 
Characters: Legolas/Elrohir, Glorfindel/Elladan, Elrond, Celebrian 
Prompt: 061. Winter
Word Count: 1522
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: The granting of certain wishes sometimes entails unorthodox means.  Part 27 of Prior Claim.

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I’m back – finally. I suppose it’s better to be busy enough to show that I do have a life. A real one. *LOL* But it’s also frustrating since I loathe leaving whatever I’m working on hanging for so long. It’s nearly three months since my last update. That’s a criminally long time in between installments. Anyway, here’s the latest chapter. I hope it makes up even the tiniest bit for the horrendous delay.

I also urge you all to read gloromeien ’s latest opus, A Slaying in Scarlet. She’s a blooming Agatha Christie in the making. Though Ms. Christie never wrote anything so dizzyingly romantic or gloriously smutty. But then she didn’t have a pair of exquisite elven detectives to work with either!

Title: Yearning
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Legolas/Elrohir, Glorfindel/Elladan
Prompt: 034. Not Enough
Word Count: 1016
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: The longing for union goes beyond bodily need when the heart and spirit have been freely offered and received. Part 26 of Prior Claim.

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I seem to be always apologizing for being so delayed with updates and this time is no different. As usual, RL obligations take up most of my time and energy. Furthermore, I'm heading for Shanghai tonight with the hubby for a week's holiday and, as we've never been there before, we've been busy preparing and researching for it. So, much as I would have loved to post a chapter before leaving, there simply was no time or inspiration to come up with something decent. But, hey, maybe the trip will get my creative juices flowing and I'll have something worth posting when I get back.

Eressë

My abject apologies for such a delayed update. As usual, other obligations necessarily took precedence. But here's the next part at last and, as someone so succinctly put it, Elladan will finally be peeled off that damn door. As to any splinters down yonder, I think I'll leave that to Glorfindel to investigate.


Title: Reckoning
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Glorfindel/Elladan
Prompt: 083: And
Word Count: 1295
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: Glorfindel takes matters into his own hands and makes Elladan’s choice for him. Part 25 of Prior Claim.

( Reckoning )

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Title: Reprisal
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Elladan, Erestor, Glorfindel
Prompt: 033. Too Much
Word Count: 1777
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: One jealous turn deserves another. Part 24 of Prior Claim.

( Reprisal )

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Title: Setback
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Elladan and Elrohir
Prompt: 042. Triangle
Word Count: 1196
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: How does one distinguish between what is and what seems to be? Part 23 of Prior Claim.

( Setback )

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Title: Disabused
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Legolas/Elrohir
Prompt: 077. What?
Word Count: 1496
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: As Legolas’ departure draws near, one of Elrohir’s assumptions comes to the fore. Part 22 of Prior Claim.
Author’s Note: Real life hasn’t let up but I figured the only way to get something written is to just write whenever and wherever the chance presents itself. However, during the course of writing this part, my mind got stuck in the gutter (never mind the reason) and refused to climb back out. This isn’t anything like my original plan for this piece!

( Disabused )

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Title: Stimulus
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Elladan, Legolas/Elrohir
Prompt: 037. Sound
Word Count: 1160
Rating: R
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: Elladan discovers that eavesdropping can be both a pleasure and a pain. Part 21 of Prior Claim.

( Stimulus )

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My apologies for such a delayed update. Hopefully, RL will finally let up and I’ll be able to get back to writing more regularly. I'm leaving in a few hours for a much needed holiday with my family but I promise to respond to comments as soon as I get back. In any case, I hope this pleases.


Title: Affection
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Legolas/Elrohir, Elladan
Prompt: 023. Lovers
Word Count: 1008
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: There is so much more to loving than mere bodily union. Part 20 of Prior Claim.
Author’s Note: A bit on the mushy side, I’m afraid, but my muses simply refused to let me tackle anything serious or angsty.

( Affection )

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I've received a number of inquiries about whether I am well and it's moved me deeply that people actually noticed that I haven't updated in a while. Rest assured, I'm fine; my absence is not due to poor health or a personal crisis. The culprit is lack of time for recreational writing and the attendant difficulty of getting into the right frame of mind for it when I do dredge up a spare moment. It's the main reason I did not sign up for the Ardor in August challenge much as I would have loved to participate again.

I do have a new chapter in the works - it's half finished and I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be done with it by next week. Nothing heavy I admit - a lighthearted piece was all I could manage at the moment. But I'm not going to abandon my current story though it will take me a bit longer to complete than previous ones. I shudder at the thought of an unfinished story to my name given that it frustrates me no end when I start reading something and get engaged by it, only to discover it does not and never will have a proper ending.

In any case, thanks to everyone who's asked after me and wished me well. It's really lovely of you. (And dearest gloromeien, I haven't forgotten you. Do give Starbuck a hug for me.)

Warmest regards,
Eressë

My apologies for the overly delayed update. Blame the usual suspects – work, family, colds, deadlines, Torchwood… I should have known watching John Barrowman and Gareth David-Lloyd snogging away would be much too distracting. I dare say others would consider it inspiring however. **snort**

Title: Shorn
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Legolas/Elrohir
Prompt: 003. Ends
Word Count: 2944
Rating: NC-17 for sexual content
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: A long ago wish is granted and the beginnings of a promised affair is finally realized. Part 19 of Prior Claim.

( Shorn )

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My apologies for the belated replies to all your wonderful comments. I’ve been out of town on holiday with my family since right after Christmas Day and only got back in time for the New Year’s Eve celebrations. In any case, here’s my first fic to start off 2008. And may we all have a Happy and Blessed New Year.


Title: Intimation
Author: Eressë
Fandom: JRR Tolkien
Characters: Elladan & Elrohir, Legolas, Eldacar
Prompt: 060. Drink
Word Count: 3100
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Summary: The fulfillment of an old request comes ever nearer to realization. Part 18 of Prior Claim.

( Intimation )

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Thank you to minuial_nuwing for the virtual lj gift and to melethen for the lovely card. And double thanks to sian265 for the card and virtual lj gift.

A blessed and merry Christmas to one and all!

Title: Beyond Reach
Written for the December 2007 slashy_santa exchange
Author: Eressë
Email: eresse21@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Elladan/Haldir
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the wizard of storytelling himself, JRR Tolkien and/or his estate. No offense is intended or profit made in my use of them.
Request: Elladan/elf of author's choice. Book canon elves only! Please include black leather, a fire of some type, and the phrase "Have you lost your mind?" Mild angst is fine, but it must end well. I generally prefer my Elladan on top, but I am willing to compromise on that point. No character death, rape, graphic violence or extreme angst. No parent/child incest. No heavy BDSM. No EVIL!Celebrian or EVIL!Elrond, and ABSOLUTELY no EVIL!Elrohir. No squicky characters paired, please. Silk scarves and general battle scenes are fine.
Summary: A Wood-elf learns that a dream come true is not necessarily the same as a wish granted.

Written for: Minuial Nuwing

Author’s Note: I did not write Haldir as he is portrayed in the movies, but rather as he is described in the book: a simple border guard who knew enough of the Common Tongue to communicate adequately with the non-elvish speaking members of the Company of the Ring.

( Tell me to go and I will obey… )