Oak Hawthorn

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Have I Murdered My Tomorrow? by Oak_Hawthorn ll @oak-hawthorn

Art The White Stag by @the-red-butterfly

Works created for @tolkienrsb 2025

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Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Words: 10,741

Characters: Thranduil Elvenking, Bard the Bowman, Legolas, misc

Tags: First Meetings, Animal Transformation, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Forests, Father-Son Relationship, Character Study, Pre-Canon

Summary:

Bard the Bowman goes for a hunt in the woods, and finds something he doesn't expect at all.

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Galadriel's Gift

My fourth submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2025, a photograph of a majestic tree.

Prompt: After the Scouring of the Shire, the Party Tree is gone, and the fields lay barren. But Samwise Gamgee will always tend to his garden, and when there are no gardens, he will grow things anew. He plants Galadriel's gift in elven soil in the middle of Hobbiton; watching over the years as it grows into a beautiful mallorn tree.

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The River Bruinen

My third submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2025, a photograph of a glittering blue river.

This is an open-ended prompt about the river Bruinen, or perhaps the Ford. Could be regarding the members of the Fellowship, Elrond, or anyone else who seeks to cross it, completely up to the author's discretion.

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The Eight-Pointed Star

My second submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2025, a photograph of a mosaic laid in stone.

Prompt: Once it blazed on banners and armour, the mark of Fëanor’s house. But who stands over it? Is it a brother, a son who helped lay it down, lingering in exile or defiance? A descendant tracing lost lineage? Or a stranger, unaware of what they’ve found? 

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Speleothems and Sagas

My first submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2025, a photograph of the inside of a cave.

Prompt: Just as Men read from books and Elves from song, Dwarves are said to read the stone itself, seeing in each stalactite or flowstone the echoes of history, heroes, or omens. They craft folktales from the shapes of speleothems, seeing in them all manner of shapes and creatures, and passing them down to their young as they explore the caves.

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Stranger in the Elvenking's Halls

My second submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2023.

There is a cloaked figure sneaking around in the Elvenking's Halls. They make an effort to remain unseen, but they seem set on a path to the king's treasury. Is it a man, elf, or someone else entirely? What is their purpose here? Are their intentions good or ill?

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Of Tales Of Long Ago

My first submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2023.

As the ages have passed, the Middle Earth of old has fallen to legend, and with it, all traces of races other than Men have vanished. So too have their histories been forgotten, written off as myth or children's tales. But still there remain few who still remember, and have tasked themselves with protecting this knowledge at all costs. They hide amongst the common people, blending in and moving about unseen, doing everything they can to learn more about a long-gone world. Who are they?

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The Three Hunters at Hogwarts

My third submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2022.

A crossover prompt between The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, set at Hogwarts and the Forbidden Forest. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli are travelling through Fangorn Forest, when unexpectedly, they find themselves in a different forest altogether! How do they deal with this fascinating, novel world of magic?

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The Adventures of Tevildo

My second submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2022.

A light-hearted prompt about Tevildo, once Prince of Cats, being reborn as an ordinary housecat in Gondor during the Third Age. He is Less Than Pleased. It's way too hard to take over the kingdom in this substandard form, everyone seems to find him more amusing than threatening, and the Steward's sons, for some strange reason, keep trying to pet him.

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The Statue of a Warrior A photograph taken for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2022.

A very open-ended prompt about a statue in a garden. Who are they? What is there story? Is it a stranger who finds the statue, or someone who already knows and cares deeply about the person it depicts? Has someone built the statue in memory of a loved one? It's all up to the author...