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Discussing: January 2012 Birthday Cards
January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54480
01 Jan 12 8:38 AM
Original Post
General Audience
Happy New Year, HASA members all over the world!
Please be advised that it may take a few days to put up a workshop for this year's birthday challenges - but for now, you can use this forum just the way you are used to. I will inform you as soon as there's a workshop.
ETA: The new workshop for this year's birthday challenges is up und running: go here. Instructions of how to join and work with a workshop are there, as well.
And, as always, if you have any comments, questions or suggestions, make a post here in the forum or drop me a mail, and I'll do my best to help!
Birthday folk: Is your birthday in January and you would be delighted by a little story gift from your fellow HASA members? Then state your request here in this thread.
Authors: Let yourselves get inspired by the suggestions - a chance to be creative and to make a fellow HASA member happy at the same time!
January, 3rd - Imhiriel: I'd like to read a story about Ithilien or about Doriath - any time, any genre, any characters, but, if possible, something good or happy or beautiful.
January, 7th - Jay of Lasgalen: ...this year I'd like drabbles about the Fellowship, please.
During the long months of the Ring war and its aftermath, several members of the Fellowship must have celebrated birthdays. How did they mark the day? Did they remember other years? Did other members of the company know about it? Perhaps they lost track of the date and missed the day!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54481
01 Jan 12 8:46 AM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
My birthday is on the 3rd, and I'd like to read a story about Ithilien or about Doriath - any time, any genre, any characters, but, if possible, something good or happy or beautiful.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54482
03 Jan 12 7:24 AM
Reply To: 54481
General Audience
Happy Birthday, Imhiriel! I hope you enjoy this glimpse of Doriath.
Flowering hemlock umbels gleam palely in grey glades among tall birch trees. Silvery white, foggy grey, darkest green, shadowed black.
She dances. Her arms, her face shimmer white. Her dress, pale as wispy fog, clings to her limbs. Her hair flows around her, black as the shadows under the deep green of the trees.
There are brighter colours back in Menegroth, the bright reds, yellows, blues and greens that appear only in light of lamp or torch. She cares not. The stars are all the light she needs to dance.
He plays for her. While she dances, who needs light?
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54483
03 Jan 12 1:36 PM
Reply To: 54482
General Audience
What a lovely tale, Nath!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54484
05 Jan 12 8:42 PM
Reply To: 54481
General Audience
Hi, Imhiriel! Happy belated birthday! Thought I'd try something a little different, set in the "early" days of the realm.
Mirdan i Doriath
My cousin approaches me and kneels. His bearing shows both a deference that is not fawning and a dignity that is not pride. So like my brothers, yet so different.
"Rise, kinsman, and speak."
"I have brought you a gift, Elwë."
"A sword, by the look of it." My smile is somewhat strained - I have more than a dozen swords already, and well he knows this.
But within a minute I know it to be the finest blade I have ever laid eyes on, much less held. Elbereth's stars! It is at once light as a night-breeze, and heavy enough to cleave stone, if I am any judge of steel.
"Have you named it, Eöl? I know you could not leave such brilliance nameless."
He bows, with twinkling eyes. "I have named it for that which I have so oft earned from you, my Lord. Aranruth. King's Ire. I do but gift it back."
I laugh, bid my cousin sit beside me, and for a while we are friends again - all insults, real and imagined, forgotten.
I do believe that was the only time he called me anything other than Elwë.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54485
06 Jan 12 2:21 AM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
My birthday is January 7th, and this year I'd like drabbles about the Fellowship, please.
During the long months of the Ring war and its aftermath, several members of the Fellowship must have celebrated birthdays. How did they mark the day? Did they remember other years? Did other members of the company know about it? Perhaps they lost track of the date and missed the day!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54486
08 Jan 12 8:37 AM
Reply To: 54485
General Audience
Happy Birthday, Jay!
"Happy Birthday!" Merry didn't know what reaction he had expected, but it certainly wasn't a sigh and a gloomy expression. "Pippin! What is it?"
"I hoped you'd forget."
"Forget? Why?"
"I did myself; forget, that is. Until this morning," Pippin looked quite distressed.
"But you remembered, didn't you?"
"But I have no presents for anyone."
"Do you really think that matters, Pippin? Frodo and Sam will understand, and no one else here knows our customs that well."
"But I would know. And I think Strider knows about hobbit birthdays. And Gandalf."
Now it was Merry's turn to sigh. "Stubborn Took."
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54487
08 Jan 12 11:49 AM
Reply To: 54486
General Audience
Ah, poor Pip. Of course he'd want to be able to give presents to all the Company ... firmly squashes plot Nazgúl.
Thank you for this delightful snippet!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54488
08 Jan 12 8:19 PM
Reply To: 54487
General Audience
Glad you liked it:-)
*looks sadly at squished plot Nazgúl*
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54489
09 Jan 12 9:03 AM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
May apologies to all my fellow January babies whose requests I have been lax in answering- please be assured that you will get stories by the end of the month.
And whilst I'm at it, might I request tales involving snow in some way? Looking out of my window at all this rain is really rather depressing...
(Oh, and because I forgot to mention... my birthday is tomorrow (17/01)?)
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54491
12 Jan 12 8:14 AM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
The new workshop for this year's birthday challenges is up und running: go here. I'm about to edit the starter post to add the link, but this post serves as a special heads up for those of you who are receiving forum emails or don't keep checking the starter post for eventual updates.
Don't forget to join the workshop to be able to work with it - instructions are at the link. But if you need more help, just holler for me .
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54492
12 Jan 12 8:33 AM
Reply To: 54482
General Audience
Thanks so much, Nath! This is exactly what I had in mind with my request, and you even went way beyond how "beautiful" I imagined a scene! Every sentence - every phrase, almost - shows a glimpse to awe the inner eye.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54493
12 Jan 12 8:43 AM
Reply To: 54484
General Audience
thank you very much for your good wishes and your tale!
Who would have thought any story involving Eöl could be anything other than gloom and doom and actually be lighthearted, even? And who would have thought Eöl had a sense of humour and will & mind for such an elaborate and sneaky pun .
That's a very inventive way to explain the name of the sword; I think I might add it to my personal canon.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54494
12 Jan 12 12:18 PM
Reply To: 54492
General Audience
Thank you :-)
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54497
13 Jan 12 9:13 PM
Reply To: 54493
General Audience
Thanks, Imhiriel! Glad you liked it
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54499
16 Jan 12 1:46 PM
Reply To: 54481
General Audience
Possibly not the good or happy or beautiful that was asked for... but I hope you will accept this fic and my apologies for its lateness anyway, Imhiriel.
We shift from foot to foot, uneasy.
It is but a wood, our Master tells us- naught but a forest, naught but trees, naught but firewood.
He will rage at us for our fear, threaten us with all kinds of punishment for our cowardice, curse us for our terror.
It is naught, and we are but fools...
...but looking upon it, upon the bodies of our allies that the shrubbery has grown over, upon the skeletons of of our fellows that the trees have grown around, of the skulls of our comrades that the branches and roots have grown through...
It is called Doriath, in the language of the Elves.
"The Fence."
We shall not pass it.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54500
16 Jan 12 2:01 PM
Reply To: 54485
General Audience
Before I write something out of canon... did the Proessor ever mention actual dates for the birthdays of the Fellowship? I have a few Nuzgûl running around my ankles as we speak, after all, but I should not wish to make mistakes with someone's birthday present.
Look what happened to Déagol when he did that, after all...
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54501
16 Jan 12 2:27 PM
Reply To: 54500
General Audience
As far as I know, the only canonical birthdays for the Fellowship are 1st March for Aragorn, and 22nd September for Frodo. I don't think Tolkien ever gave a date of birth for the other members, or even a year of birth for Legolas (or Gandalf, but he was one of the Istari ...)
In the absence of evidence, I assume facts can be made up :>)
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54502
16 Jan 12 2:41 PM
Reply To: 54501
General Audience
Thanks, Jay. With your help, your fic will not now be long in coming!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54503
16 Jan 12 2:55 PM
Reply To: 54485
General Audience
Many apologies for this being so late, Jay- but many thanks also for the help you gave me in writing it. I hope it is what you wanted- just complain if it is not!
It is only later- looking out at a moon bruised by treetops- that I realise what day it is.
The seventeenth.
Looking round at the room the Elves have given me with an appraising eye, I suppose there are worse places to spend a birthday.
In happier days and happier lands, this should have been cause for a celebration, I think.
The halls of my father should have rung with mirth and merriment.
Unbidden, the Thing springs to mind- towering over the Wizard the last time I saw him, shadow-winged and slimy, fire and fury and filth and foulness, that hellish roar echoing back at me from a thousand million angles...
I shudder and turn away from the window.
As soft a bed as the Elves have provided me this night, I shall sleep ill.
They did not even leave me my axe to ward off nightmares.
All things considered, I have had better birthdays...
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54505
18 Jan 12 1:39 AM
Reply To: 54503
General Audience
Poor Gimli - how different the elven flets must be to the caves and caverns of his home. And they didn't even leave him his axe! (Though that might be a good idea if he decided to battle the Balrog in his dreams ...)
The opening line is lovely - so atmospheric: a moon bruised by treetops. Thank you, Aruthir!!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54511
19 Jan 12 12:01 PM
Reply To: 54505
General Audience
Glad you enjoyed the story, Jay!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54512
21 Jan 12 4:49 AM
Reply To: 54489
General Audience
Happy birthday, and apologies that this is late, but the muse was hiding from the rain...
Snow. She just couldn't like it, no matter how pretty it looked in the sunlight.
"Come out here, mother! It's fun!" her daughter called, waving to her.
No. She did not mind them playing, but they would have just as much fun without her. Likely the memory of the Grinding Ice coloured her perceptions, yet she had no desire to confront this particular dislike. Yet it felt churlish to stay inside as her husband and daughter frolicked in the freshly-fallen snow.
Again, an insistent wave and a call to join them.
With a sigh, Galadriel gave in and went outside.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54517
23 Jan 12 3:45 PM
Reply To: 54512
General Audience
Many thanks for the story, Nath- just the sort of think to have me checking the clouds!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54519
26 Jan 12 11:56 AM
Reply To: 54499
General Audience
Possibly not the good or happy or beautiful that was asked for... but I hope you will accept this fic and my apologies for its lateness anyway, Imhiriel.
You could say that ! On the other hand, it was beautifully spooky ! And when I have this idea of a beautiful Doriath in my mind (for example the one Nath gifted me with), the shudder-inducing effect of the scene you painted is even greater. So I thank you very much for that wonderful juxtaposition, Aruthir, and for giving me such a rare and different PoV of Doriath.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54520
26 Jan 12 12:05 PM
Reply To: 54519
General Audience
Glad you enjoyed it, Imhiriel- and who knows, perhaps next year will see a happier tale, eh?
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54523
03 Feb 12 7:46 PM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
Exactly a month late-- Happy Belated Birthday, Imhiriel! I hope it was a nice birthday, and sorry my little offering is so incredibly late. It's not particularly beautiful, but at least it has Ithilien in it ;-) Thanks for all your work in the forums!
"Why does your silence always say so much?" Isildur asked, skipping a pebble. "Why still afraid? He is gone!"
"Maybe, but not the strife he bred, as you have lately seen. Unless that wound is a farce?"
Isildur looked away.
"And you would build here, where his minions still lurk?"
"I wonder what they call these springs?" Isildur asked, stooping as a bluejay flew above him. "Listen. You, more than anyone, should know how evil festers unless fought."
"I had wished the fighting over."
"We can either cower and let it spread. Or uproot it. Which will it be?"
Elendil was the High King and dwelt in the North at Annúminas; and the rule in the South was committed to his sons, Isildur and Anárion. They founded there Osgiliath, between Minas Ithil and Minas Anor, not far from the confines of Mordor." (The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers)
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54544
27 Feb 12 5:51 AM
Reply To: 54523
General Audience
Thank you so much, Starlight, for this birthday present, and I apologise in my turn for replying so late!
Thank you for filling in one of the gaps in the history of Ithilien and choosing such a rarely-visited time in canon. And I really like the contrast between the sombre, foreboding subject of the discussion and the lovely, peaceful landscape they are having it in.
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54617
24 Apr 12 10:11 AM
Reply To: 54480
General Audience
This is for the three of you, Imhiriel, Jay, and Aruthir. I hope it gives pleasure in spite of being so late in coming!
Warmed by the Glow of Stars
She'd seen many a beautiful sight in her life—snow on the peaks of the mountains beyond Edoras, colts running alongside their dams across the fields of Rohan in the late spring, the greening of trees at the foot of the mountains in the distance. But now she was seeing new beauties as she looked across the River at the distant blue-green blur of Ithilien, lying as it did before the darkness of the Mountains of Shadow.
And then he was there beside her, smiling deeply at her with his calm, clear grey eyes. "Captain Elfhelm tells me it is your birthday, beloved," he murmurs into her ear. "I can give you nothing better than my vow of love for you always. And if you will have me, I tell you this—if my Lord King gives us leave, I shall build a home for us there, in what was known of old as the Garden of Gondor. Certainly with you beside me it shall become that again, now that the Shadow is departed away forever!"
So saying, he draws the blue mantle more closely about her, and she feels as if the stars with which it is embroidered are singing within her heart!
Re: January 2012 Birthday Cards
Message: 54687
19 May 12 9:29 AM
Reply To: 54617
General Audience
I apologise very much for not replying sooner - I had saved the e-mail notification in my in-box, but somehow it always slipped my mind that I hadn't answered yet.
And that's really a shame, because this is an absolutely beautiful, evocative drabble! It's exactly what I was hoping for, and you have now given me such a lush, vivid picture of one of my favourite places in Middle-earth, and to have Faramir (with his beautiful eyes), Éowyn (with the starry mantle) and their love shining in this picture makes it all the more precious.
Thank you very much!


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Revealing an STD
We have two letters today. They're similar, so I'm putting them together.
Q: I am a 59-year-old female who was married for 30 years. My husband died a few years ago and I am now hoping to start my life again. My problem is that before we were married, one of us contracted herpes. (We never placed blame and we never knew which of us gave the other the virus.) I don't know if I should spend the rest of my life alone to avoid spreading the virus to someone else. I don't know if anyone will want to date me. It somehow seems embarrassing to tell. Do I tell up front so that the person can make a decision right away? Do I wait a while? Will anyone want to be intimate with me? I would still enjoy and miss having an intimate relationship. Am I being selfish in wanting one? Please help me figure out the right thing to do.
– Alone, lonely, and hoping for a another chance at love, South Shore
Q: Long time reader here. I'm a fairly good catch by LL standards. I'm successful in my career and have a thriving business. I have a really great relationship with my kids (college and high school students). Strangers (not just friends) have recently gone out of their way to compliment me on my appearance. I'm not perfect by any measure, but a lot of great people like and respect me.
1) I have herpes (*bubble bursts*). My lovely (now-ex) husband gave it to me, but regardless of *how* I got it, it's now this BIG THING. I've been single almost seven years now and have pretty much eliminated myself from the dating pool because of it.
In my mid-40s now and this is getting pretty old, but I really can't imagine any potential date willingly exposing himself to this. So I really don't date. I want an honest reaction from readers of whether they would knowingly date someone with herpes. Would they? When is the right time to reveal this news?
How do you date with this condition? Or do I just have to call it quits forever?
2) The lovely disease-passing ex was also abusive and is currently in jail for his actions. I am over the abuse for the most part. But I tend to gloss over this part of my past as much as possible (no one really wants to know about this level of crazy) and the man *will* be released from jail. So at what point am I obligated to bring this up?
Am I dateable? What do I need to reveal when?
– Have the Herp, Worcester
A: I get a lot of letters about herpes. A lot. That makes sense, based on the numbers.
Last I checked, about 50 million people in the US have herpes. And many people walk around undiagnosed. I'm not mentioning this to scare you. I just want you both to feel less like pariahs. You're absolutely allowed to date. You're absolutely allowed to be human. Just make sure that you're honest when it's time to get physical. Just ask, simply, "Can we have a talk about STDs?" The talk is for you, too. You need to know whether your partners have anything to reveal. Because odds are, they do.
I recommend that you both arm yourself with knowledge about your disease. If you tell someone that you have herpes, they'll have questions. It helps to have answers. It shows that you care deeply about protecting the health of your partners. Talk to your doctor about how you should explain the disease to a potential partner, and how you can have the safest sex possible.
We all have issues to reveal. Sometimes it's a health problem. Sometimes it's credit card debt. Sometimes it's an abusive ex. For some people, the issue is that there's nothing to reveal at all. We just have to bring these things up as we get to know someone, the bad with the good.
Some people will bail because they don't want to deal with our problems. But some will stick around because they like us and want to make it work.
Go date. Just make sure that as you get to know someone, you ask questions and pay attention. You can't sit around panicking about when you're going to say the H-word. You have to get out of your own head to make any relationship work.
Readers? When would you expect someone to tell you about an STD -- or an abusive ex? Would you be open to dating someone with these problems? How can these letter writers go about dating? Help.
– Meredith
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Miller held Kidd to 6 points!!!!! Bibby has been the scorer I've needed!! Moiso has been racking up points and rebounds!!!! I like my future!!
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You'll be fine as long as you have a top 5 pick.
I mean Ming is the ideal pick but Stoudamire, Prince, Boozer would be a great
Between Gasol, Marbury, Battier, and Prince you would be looking at 18 million. That leaves 25 million with only one starter spot left to fill.
i was pissed about Kobe. He keeps telling me how I have the best offer then he never responds again and just leaves me hanging. Lost a lot of e-respect from me.
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4. Rohirrim x 2 - by Agape4Gondor
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Scurrying 'round the cook, flinching from the wielded broom, six sexy Rohirrim of the rodent variety grabbed the King's cheese and ran for their hole.
Every time Théodred had visited the White City, they would sit with glee in the 'Three Fishermen' pub and look at the drawings that he brought with him. Boromir had heard stories. Everyone in Gondor had heard stories, but no one had ever actually seen one. Though it was a Rohirric tradition, Boromir had not seen a compilation such as this before. They were called shieldmaidens – one for each month of the year. Of the twelve, there were six sexy Rohirrim that caught Boromir's eye. Next time he visited, he assured himself, he would make sure to look them up.
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If you look at Cherokee Sport/Classic.....look for the inline 6 engine.....I had a '90 Sport 2DR that ran for 230K+ miles......good in the mountains and sand...easy to find parts
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I've been cruisin a 2013 Dodge Caravan for the last week. The Expedition I had reserved fell through; so Thrifty made it up to me (?) with this thing. AWD, flex fuel, stow in go seating, lcd entertainment for the kiddos. Seats 7! Latches on all the seats for car seats. Not as roomy as the Ford, but I ain't sittin in the cargo hold anyway. Fits boards and people and I had no problem getting through a little red mud on the dirt road out to my boy's spread in the country. Decent on the mpgs too. I've driven FWD Caravans through the snow in the Poconos an gotten em up the hill to Camelback when there was 8" on the ground and the plow hadn't made it yet. AWD could tackle it no prob. The mini-van, cause havin groms is the ultimate action sport.
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Word Gaffer on the minivan. I'm on my 2nd grand caravan and I love it. I can fit 6 brds up to 9ft inside the van with 2 other peeps riding. Or 2 boajrds and a queen size futon that sleeps great on rodetrips (no hotels) or at festies. And cops don't hound dirty minivans for the mst part.
get a honda element they are good on gas dependable and versatile.Caravans are good too for the room If you take the seats out. just have to face the fact that your dreams are over you drive a minivan.Whatever you decide check it out good , gonna be alot of frakenstorm cars some dishonest auto lots are gonna try to move quick.
1st generation Toyota Tacoma 4x4 DC.....can't go wrong with then, they are extremely reliable, hold their value and will get you in an out of where you need to go, holding a ton of **** as well. And the bed makes for the best changing mat in the industry.....I love my 2nd Gen, good luck in your search
4 dr tacoma has to be your first choice. i spent months looking for the right one but they are so epxensive because they hold their value so well. i ended up buying a brand new GMC canyon, 4wd, 6 foot bed, but only 2 seats. its great for a surf vehicle, i put bigger tires on it and now can basically drive anywhere. i keep three boards in the back and a bunch of wetsuits at all times (tonneau cover protects everything). generally i'm very happy with the purchase, but still would have loved to get a taco
-plus, you don't get all the looks when the most people you can show up with is one extra person, and you aren't driving a minivan haha
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"Ready or not, here I come!"
Fréalas crouched underneath the brush, trying with all her might to silence her breathing. The sound of whistling cut through the bright air, clear as birdsong.
He always tries to find me first, it's not fair! she thought, and flattened herself to the ground, more wormlike with each movement. It was at this most important moment, when stillness and silence were key if one did not want to be tagged, that she noticed the stone digging into her left knee. But she dare not move for fear of discovery. Ignoring the unexpected discomfort, she held her breath.
The whistling drew nearer. Under the shelter of the tall grass and shrubs on the edge of the forest, she who would not be found tried to be as quiet as a shadow. Glancing sideways, the eight year old gauged how far she had to run to get to the safe haven of the sheep-pen and then she could hide again for yet another round of Boar and Mouse.
That brief movement was enough. The glint of sunlight on red hair gave her away, and she heard an "Aha!" and knew that her hiding place was not what she had hoped for. Before jumping up and dashing to the sheep-pen and her freedom, she grasped at the bit of stone that had so rudely found its way into her hiding place. Only with a most brief glance did she look at the smooth disc before shoving it into her dress pocket. Springing up, she took in the decreasing distance of her brother's feet. All hope lost, she ran as fast as her legs could carry her, trying to make an arc away from him and toward the nearby pen.
She was utterly dismayed to see the fence-post in front of her, tantalisingly within grasp, when at that moment her feet betrayed her and down she went.
"Frithlíc!" she cried, even as she knew she was losing, seeing her friends run to the fence post in surety now that someone had gotten caught in their stead. But he wouldn't win without a fight…
"Ow! Fréalas, why'd you have to go and do that, eh?" He stood on one leg, rubbing his ankle with his other bare foot where his younger sister's fist had found its mark. Catching her breath, she and her brother and friends heard the horn blowing that meant the end of their game for today.
"Well!" a snaggle-toothed boy said, grinning widely, "guess you'll be the Boar tomorrow!"
In response, she stuck out her tongue. "Halma, son of Halmwine, I know all of your hiding places. Don't think you'll be a mouse for long!"
The sun was setting as they walked near the soothing gurgles of the Mering Stream, back to their cluster of homes, the White Mountains glowing as though lit with inner fire. Above them, the clouds blazed with colour, orange and scarlet, and even streaks of lilac. Fréalas stopped, appreciative of the splendour of colours on display and said, "The sky is so fiery!"
One of the other children, in a singsong voice, said,
"Red sky at night, rider's delight…
Red sky at morning, Eorlingas take warning…"
Fréalas thought it was one of the most beautiful sunsets she had ever seen. It was true that she had an almost unnatural fondness for the time of the sun's setting, and dusk in general, but she couldn't help it! Why else have eyes, she thought, if not to appreciate the hues in the skies, the blues of day, turning to reds and violets and the twinkling of stars, whose patterns she was beginning to learn. Her heart leapt and she thanked the mostly nameless ones who ruled fate and time for placing her in the plains of grasses that she called home. She was sure that there was nowhere in Middle Earth more beautiful than the land of the Riddermark, especially her land by the Firien woods. Who else could possibly know the joys of wading on the banks of the clear waters of the Mering Stream (and who else could possess as many smooth skipping stones as she had?), and…
The stone! She quickly stuck her hand in her pocket to see if the mysterious rock had escaped during her dash to the sheep-pen. It was still there, and she drew it out. Clumps of dirt clung to it, so she unceremoniously wiped it on her woven skirt, and was amazed to see that it had markings. The indentions were dirt-filled, so she ran over to the stream to rinse it off.
"Where are you going?" Frithlíc asked.
"My business is my own."
"I'll have it out of you," he warned, with a half-smile.
Squatting by the stream, Fréalas submerged rock and herself to the forearms, bracing at the water's chill. With a half-bitten fingernail she scraped out the dirt until she could see the designs clearly. It wasn't runes, she decided, seeing the three curvy lines and three stars above them. But what did it mean? What did it say? Her mother was unique in that she knew her letters, but Fréalas had been unable as of yet to convince her mother to teach her as well.
"Well, we're going to be late! What have you there?"
Fréalas almost fell in, shocked by the voice right behind her.
"Frithlíc, you startled me. Oromë's horn!"
"Fréalas! Who taught you that? You had best watch your tongue, little one, before you get in trouble. Now what is that?"
She turned, and was about to say that she really didn't know and wanted to get his opinion on it, but knew that they needed to go back to safety of home with their warm fire, and cosy wooden tables. It was well within community memory of fine people in the Mark being killed by Orcs, hence the extra precaution of blowing the horn at the end of the day for any children who may have strayed away and not realized how soon the sun would set. Fréalas, like all children her age, was learning to shoot with bow and arrow, as well as basic swordsmanship. She hoped that she never had to use those skills, but the alternative could be far worse, if what she had heard about Orcs was true.
Frithlíc raised an eyebrow.
"Not a secret, I hope?"
They were of very different temperament, but they shared a trait that was as obvious within their community of tall, fair-haired folk as a lone tree standing on the grassy plains. Through the workings of which horse-lord or horse-lady Fréalas was quite unsure, but she and her brother had red hair. Not simply sun-kissed, which was not infrequent, but truly blazing, the colour of coals Fréalas saw at the smiths' as they hammered the metal shoes for their beloved steeds. Hair that shade was unusual, though not considered unnatural, and neighbours simply attributed it to the fact that Fréawyn, their mother, was said to be of distant lineage from the ancient line of Northmen, now few and scattered.
She passed the newly-cleaned rock to her brother.
He grunted. "Not runes. But what it says, I am unsure."
He looked it over carefully, turning it over and again in his hands, gazing at it over his freckled nose with hazel eyes.
"Doesn't look like it was made by Elves, if you ask me," he continued.
"I didn't, but how would you know? You've never seen an Elf! Doesn't look Dwarvish either; it's too plain. Their work is more delicate, somehow, though that doesn't mean what I mean…"
She stopped speaking, brows furrowed.
"Think of that knife that Mother uses for her chopping and…"
Here her voice faltered. This was her mother's sharpest knife, used both for household chores and more delicate surgical purposes, when needed, as when Fréalas had gotten a skin infection of sorts. She hadn't known how it all happened, but then her mother had used the knife to make an incision in the reddened flesh to let out the poison. It hurt like fire, and she had wailed, especially after her mother put witch hazel to it, but it had done the trick, and there was but a half-moon scar on her leg as evidence of what had happened.
"Yes, I know," Frithlíc intervened. "What of it?"
"Well, we don't often see the Dwarves. But still, this doesn't look like their handiwork. Here, say, give it back! I found it!"
"No need to get possessive over an old rock, anyway!"
Frithlíc's eyes glinted as he tossed it back to his sister. "Isn't it time that you had a bath, eh? Ah, lucky you!"
Fréalas frowned. It wasn't that she minded the hot water warmed over the fire for bathing, to be sure, but now that it was early spring she always seemed to be cold, and the inconvenience of hauling water from the Mering for a mere bath seemed unwarranted. Especially since she was going to be wearing the same clothes tomorrow. At least their mother had skill in making tallow-soaps of pleasing scent, full of the lavender that grew on the nearby hills.
They didn't often go to the royal city of Edoras, but on occasion the Frithmund family did travel more to the heart of the Mark, trading soaps for things that couldn't be bartered from the other families near the woods. One could find spices there, from warmer lands further south, and metalworks from the Dwarves traversing the Western Road. There was the occasional Gondorian coming to visit family, as those of Rohan and Gondor were so inextricably linked, though Fréalas always felt somehow looked down on; rustic, through the eyes of the well-clad Southerners. "Are they all so tall?" she wondered, and couldn't understand why they all seemed to have such dark hair. She sometimes noticed the occasional furtive stare, usually from a Gondorian child, at Frithlíc and her, with their freckles and fiery locks. She was quite sure that she didn't like those folk from the big stone city. Who would want to live in a place with such an ugly name as Mundburg? she thought at such times. When confronted with a rare sugared candy offered in a gesture of friendliness, however, she was also quite unwilling to refuse the treasure.
The evening passed without incident, and after a dinner of mutton and potatoes and a scrub-down at her mother's insistence, Fréalas asked for leave to visit the Ísensmith family. Shrugging, her father gave permission, so after donning her gearnscrúd, Fréalas walked barefoot to her neighbors. Their family had a few weeks ago been blessed with a daughter, Tamára, and Fréalas longed for a few moments of solitude with her. The Eorlingas believed heartily in the purifying aspects of being outside in the fresh air, and so built rocking cribs for their babes in the forms of horses that they placed in sheltered side porches. As the moon looked down on the clusters of small homesteads, She would often see a fair daughter of Rohan sitting in a chair next to her horse-crib, rocking it whilst singing a lullaby to her newborn. It was believed that by being exposed to wind and star and moon that the child would gather the strength needed to be a part of these isolated peoples, proud, yet wary, intuition as keen as starlight, and always guarded. So Fréalas visited the Ísensmith's, waving a greeting to young Smithson, then making her way to stand next to Tamára's crib for some quiet rocking time. While gently pushing the blonde infant, she sang a lullaby from her recent youth.
Lullay my dear heart, my own dear dréaming…
As the babe cooed and then fell into sleep, Fréalas watched the skies as the constellations silently followed their ages-old patterns across the night sky.
"See that, Tamára?" she murmured. "There's Swánsteorra the swan… and Eofor the boar… Seems as though he is unwilling to share the sky with the other stars, he takes up so much room!" Fréalas pulled her knitted top around her more closely, keeping away the evening chill. "As for me," she said, giving the child a final look for the night, "I simply want to share the fire. Sweet dreams."
Fréalas pulled the bow with what felt like all of her remaining strength, yet as soon as she released the arrow, it was painfully obvious that it would hit nowhere near the intended mark on the hay bale. Sighing, she bent down and picked up yet another for practice, pausing to wipe the sweat off of her forehead with the back of her hand. It was now the height of summer, so in addition to the heat itself as an impediment to concentration, there was the issue of trying to ignore the biting horseflies that were part and parcel of living around so many horses and sheep. Though clad in the lightest woven dress she had, it was still hot. And she still was not a very good archer, but determined at least to be as accurate as that silly Halma. She shook her head in resignation. Why can't I be valued for my speed? she thought. Or in knowledge of the night sky? But knowing which way is east and west is not of much use if Orcs are running at you... Besides, what else awaited her? Weeding in the garden, or going to find yet another sheep that had managed to stray too far from its home -
"Perhaps if you don't put quite so much energy into grasping the bow, you'll have more control over where the arrow lands."
She wheeled around, looking for the source of the unexpected archery lesson. A tall man, with dark hair and grey eyes with a hint of mirth emerged from the nearby forest eaves. Bow and arrow still in her hands, Fréalas started to ask who he was, but when nothing came out, she cleared her throat and tried again.
"Who are you?" she sputtered, trying to take in the figure, who wore clothes that looked as though they had travelled far and were as unkempt as the wearer. He had spoken in Rohirric, but there was an accent to it. Not knowing what else to do since she was alone, Fréalas stood her ground, arms shaking.
He smiled, raising his arms to indicate that he would not do her any arm, and while slowly walking toward her said, "Long-walker, you may call me. Though it has been many years since I was on your fair plains, it gladdens my heart to see that the people of Rohan value still both their sons and daughters in its defence."
At this, Fréalas loosened her hold on her bow, trying to sort through the wildly spinning thoughts in her mind. How had this man approached so silently? Why was he standing there? Where was he from? Why her?
"I believe you dropped this." He kneeled, retrieving out of the grass the incised rock that Fréalas had continued to carry with her, trying to figure out its riddles when not doing more mundane things such as watering the garden and staying out of trouble. It must have flung out of her pocket during her sudden reorientation toward the stranger in the woods. He gave it a look, and an unreadable and strange expression passed over his face. Straightening, he offered it to her. "Are you able to read its markings?"
She shook her head, and lowered her bow and arrow. "My mother is able to read, but I have yet to learn." Looking first at the ground, then daring to return his gaze, she went on. "We of the Mark are to be swift in horse and sword and mind, but the reading of runes and scripts is not valued as highly as those that keep body and soul as one."
Since he kept her gaze, and didn't speak, she continued, "Neither is that of learning the star-patterns, but…" here she stopped. Who was she, a child of no one of importance, to talk to this stranger who had simply appeared out of the forest? She gave him a keen look. Well, he hasn't even put his hand to his sword, and I'm not dead yet, and he does speak in my language. The thoughts danced back and forth in her mind like bees hastily journeying from flower to flower. "If you have lived here before, then you know that we feel best when on horseback, or if not that, with our feet in the grasses and our voices in song. To be sure, I will do my best to safeguard our lands, as I feel they are the most beautiful in the world." She continued to hold her bow and arrow and stood her ground, yet felt increasingly smaller as each moment passed, as though she were the namesake to be discovered in a game of Boar and Mouse.
With a very serious look, he offered her back the disc. Fréalas shifted the arrow into her left hand so that her right hand was free to receive it. "Long have I missed you and your folk. I fear far less now for the fate of the Rohirrim in these darkening times, having the fortune to cross paths with its future." The grey-eyed stranger gave her a studious look. "This is no talisman, but a piece of history. Guard it well, for only six left the walls of Minas Tirith many, many years ago. That one has found its way to you is rare indeed."
Fréalas nodded. She looked at the disc with its stars and unreadable symbols, then back up at the tall foreigner.
"You look like one who would find more satisfaction answering the innards of this riddle by her own merit rather than being told the answer unbidden. This much will I tell you: the letters are in Tengwar, and say 'Steward.' Your ancestors are woven into its tale." He stood in expectant silence, while Fréalas tried desperately to formulate a question, or sentence, or anything.
"I will find out what I am able -" she tried to remember what he had said his name was. "Long-walker? That isn't really your name anyway, is it?" It was obvious that wherever he came from, he wasn't of the elite of Gondor, nor of her kind. Neither was he Elf-kind, at least by looks; not that she had actually seen any of them herself, but she couldn't believe that any of those ancient ones would be so…dirty.
He crouched down to be closer to her eye level, and gave her a searching look. "I am known by many names, and I am needed elsewhere at present." With that, he rose, and turned to head back into the Firien Woods. After a few steps, he stopped, and rounded to face her. "If I happen to find myself near the Mering Stream again and see a red haired maid of Rohan, how should I call her?"
Fréalas looked at the figure, already disappearing into the forest, his garb blending into the shadows of the trees. "I am Fréalas, daughter of Fréawyn, Long-walker." Looking down, she realized that she was still holding her bow and arrow, her sweaty palms allowing it to slide to the end of the shaft. "I hope that if we do meet again, my bowmanship will be that worthy of our people." She looked into the gloom of the woods. "Should I call you Long-walker?" It was almost as though someone else had asked that question. Where was her brother? Where was anybody?
"I will answer to that."
And then she was alone again, with more sweat on her brow and above her lips to be wiped off with the back of her hand. Holding her stone with even more reverence than she had prior to this unexpected meeting, Fréalas ran to rescue her misaimed arrows, then back to her house and ask her mother about what the word Steward and stars on a rock had to do with her past.
Author's Notes:
The inspiration for this story comes from three sentences in the story "Cirion and Eorl" found in Unfinished Tales. "He [Cirion] called for volunteers, and choosing six riders of great courage and endurance he sent them out in pairs with a day's interval between them. Each bore a message learned by heart, and also a small stone incised with the seal of the Stewards, that he should deliver to the Lord of the Éothéod in person, if he succeeded in reaching that land...The first pair of messengers left on the tenth day of Súlimë [March]; and in the event it was one of these, alone of all the six, who got through to the Éothéod." (emphasis mine) The appendix indicates that there were 3 letters, R ND R spelling arandur, or Steward.
I thought it would be fun for an ordinary child to find this unique piece of history, which would be very nearly 500 years old since the story is set in the year 3001. The grey-eyed stranger, well-travelled and knowing so much of the history of Gondor is, of course, Aragorn.
Anglo-Saxon words:
fréa= joyful
frith= peace
halm= helm
gearnscrúd= yarn-cloak, or sweater (jumper)
ly´tling = infant, child
dréam= joy, happiness
swánsteorra= swan-star
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"Hearing the news definitely evoked memories from my time working with him because it was an extremely enjoyable and informative time in my early career.
"The Lilleshall building was a residence of the Duke of Sutherland and I remember he would talk to us about the gardens and the building's architecture as we'd walk to the pitches for training in the morning.
"He was a top, top coach who worked to a high level, was extremely highly respected and it really was great to have worked with him."
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I'm only seeing "Portal (Beta)", but no Portal 2 even though I do own it. Maybe there's some kind of staggered release?
Well, that's something I might actually go and play. Haven't messed around with portal for a long time. I did play through portal 2 under wine on linux and it wasn't very nice.
The custom maps for portal could be cool :3
I just registered to say I don't see Portal 2 available either, just Portal, and I just bought Portal 2 under the expectation that it was available already only to find out it is not. Oh well, hopefully it will become available in the upcoming weeks so my purchase does not go to waste. (I can only imagine it will be available eventually, but sooner than later would be nice.)
That said, Portal is downloading currently and I'll definitely have to give it a try later, see how well it runs on my system.
Just spent a few minutes trying out the portal beta. It runs, but its not really ready for actual gameplay, at least not on Intel HD4000. Seems to have lots of glitches with depth testing, things sometimes show through walls or become transparent, or the portal ring will cover everything between the screen and the wall its actually on. I'm using Arch so the graphics drivers aren't outdated. With the exception of the glitches, it runs pretty well at about medium settings.
Seems to be running great for me (on NVIDIA though).
On first run in the first level there were a few hitches as the actual portals were revealed but smoothed out.
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