When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Challenge Details
Death-fics: most of us have a love/hate relationship with them. No one really wants to read or write about the passing of one's favourite characters, but, in the end, the love we have for them leads us to this dark place.
Write about any of the following subjects:
- The passing of one of the canon characters that is not already described in the books.
- How the death of any canon character affects his/her immediate family and/or the rest of the world.
- The thought of, say, orc no.2546754 during the siege of Minas Tirith when he sees a boulder about to land on his head. Any characters, as long as it involves around-death introspection: regrets, prayers, thoughts for loved ones.
- We know where Elves go after death. What about Men, Dwarves and Hobbits?
Spawned by Werecat.
Entries with Stories
The following authors have entered a story in the Challenge.
- Aerlinnel - Arwen
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 10 May 05
- About the other "noble woman" in Aragorn's life. All we know of the end of Gilraen's life is given us in the Tale of Years: "After a few years Gilraen took leave of Elrond and returned to her own people in Eriador...and she seldom saw her son again..." How their last meeting might have gone.
- Avon - Shades of Gold
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 03 Oct 05
- Gil-galad and Glorfindel at the battle of the Last Alliance. A double-drabble.
- Avon - Purple Dress, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 03 Oct 05
- Purple is the colour of deepest mourning, but in the last days of Numenor a young woman chooses to defy convention.
- Avon - Unbroken Sword, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 29 Jan 05
- Aragorn returns to the land of his kin to take his place as chieftain of the Dúnedain. A very belated birthday present for Fileg.
- Avon - Gift of Freedom, A
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 08 Jan 05
- Elladan and Elrohir have one last duty to perform for Arathorn. A combined birthday story for LKK and Jay.
- Avon - Nothing Gold can Stay
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 09 Aug 04
- Finduilas watchs the sunset. For the On-line Golden Anniversary Challenge, plus Ang's birthday. It therefore contains gold, a book, references to dragons, the number 4 and Denethor doing something unexpected.
- Avon - White is the Colour of Death
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 20 Jul 04
- In Gondor, white is the colour of death. Boromir learnt to live in that absence of colour as a child when he stood in a snow-covered wood and watched the lowering of the banner of the Stewards.
- Avon - Flying with the Swans
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 03 Jan 04
- Um, I think I need that line about what's the Sindarin word for wallow again ;-) I wrote this for the on-list Friday 13th Challenge but didn't quite make the deadline. It features a small Legolas and a forgotten superstition.
- Avon - Ties of Love
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 03 Oct 03
- Boromir and Faramir and the ties that bind us. Boromir explains a Gondorian superstition to Pippin.
- Avon - Forgotten Memories
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 18 Jul 03
- The twins bring Aragorn to Rivendell following Arathorn's death - Aragorn remembers. Happy birthday, Nic! I don't write Hobbits so it had to be Aragorn ;-)
- Avon - In the Stillness
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 06 May 03
- Sometimes you don't need words to say goodbye. This is a short piece written without any dialogue and not in traditional narrative style. It was written for the Last Partings section of the Quickies Challenge, 2nd Quarter, 2003.
- Dwimordene - On Far Fields
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 22 Oct 05
- They fought for Sauron, died for folly, but above all, they stood for honor... The enemy dead of Pelennor fields get their elegy, and Andrahar of Dol Amroth faces an array of private demons.
- Ithiliel Silverquill - Fallen to Ashes
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 19 May 05
- After the battle of Doriath, Maglor makes a terrible discovery. (Warning: blood and character death.)
- Jay of Lasgalen - Till Death Us Do Part
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 19 Jun 05
- When the One Ring was destroyed, and Sauron fell, there was no more evil and death - was there? Warning - Character death. Possibly AU.
- Jay of Lasgalen - To The Ends Of Middle Earth
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 24 Apr 05
- AU, set post ROTK. When tragedy strikes in Minas Tirith, how do those left behind remember? Warning: Character death.
- JunoMagic - 30th of March, 3019
- Adult Audience
- Last Updated: 18 Dec 06
- The Fields of the Pelennor sometime after the battle.
- JunoMagic - Two Pouches
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 05 Jan 06
- The night after Gil-galad was killed at Dagorlad. A short vignette about love and grief of brothers-in-arms.
- Karri - Learning to Fly
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 15 Feb 06
- In the spring of the year 120 F.A., Legolas and Gimli spend an evening upon the hill of Cerin Amroth.
- Larner - Light on the Way
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 07 Mar 05
- Regarding the passing of the King Elessar Telcontar. Rated for character death and the treatment of bodies.
- maya_ar - Passing of Faramir, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 10 Jul 04
- At the end of his long life, Faramir bids farewell to those he loves. An attempt at doing a piece in the style of the Appendices.
- Meril - Wind's Requiem, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 24 Apr 05
- A vignette of a Telerin girl at the Kinslaying.
- SophiaSilfaery - Memory Eternal
- Adult Audience
- Last Updated: 16 Sep 05
- After the deaths of Arwen and Aragorn, Celeborn and his great-grandaughter, Nimloth, discuss what death is.
- Soubrettina - Taking Leave
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 13 Jan 07
- Eowyn takes leave of her liege-lord.
Although I didn't expect to write 'death of...' fics (and although I'm not big on them), this just seemed to work. - Ti'ana Luthien - Forever
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 12 Dec 05
- Eowyn and Faramir have been married only two or three years, but once again their peace is threatened by war. A 4th Age AU tale.
- Vistula the Dunadan - Gardener's Wife, The
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 15 May 05
- While the Gaffer lies near death, he reveals to Sam some surprising information about his mother. Includes: Hamfast Gamgee and Bell Gamgee.
- Werecat - Beast of Burden
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 02 Feb 09
- Heroes come in all shapes and sizes; some of them not necessarily human. Meet Summerstraw, a horse of Rohan.
MEFAs 2005 - Third Place, Drama
Mithrils 2005 - Finalist, Drama - Werecat - Death, I Call Thee
- General Audience
- Last Updated: 28 Oct 04
- Deathfic, focusing on some of the final thoughts of five different individuals at Pelennor Fields, each one of different race and/or alignments. Some are good, some are bad and some are, well, already dead.
Inspired from the Pelennor Fields battle scene from the RotK film.
