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[sophinisba]

There's also a great variety of great fic going up at elfmoot2007, where we're posting what we wrote for the writing challenge this weekend. A lot of people are still traveling so more fics will continue to go up when folks get settled back home and have time to post them. Several people who hadn't written fic in a really long time wrote great new stuff for this challenge, and it was really wonderful hearing them read out loud in the hotel room on Sunday.

I just did a drabble, Merry-centric, gen, G. The words I drew out of the cup were embarrassed, crooked, breakable.



Merry hadn't minded the tall men in the tavern with their crooked smiles and beery eyes. He'd just needed fresh air, quiet and time to think.

He ran all the way back to the inn, though his breath was thin and his confidence shattered – Merry, who'd never imagined himself so breakable. A lot of good a stout heart will do, he thought, if you fall in a faint whenever the enemy is close. But no use in being embarrassed or pretending for these strangers that he'd been brave. All that mattered was to get the news back to his friends.

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[shirebound]

All that mattered was to get the news back to his friends.

I like that a lot. What a strange and terrifying experience for Merry, all alone in the Darkness.

[sophinisba]

Merry is so great!! I love him because he loves his friends so much!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Oh, Merry, you're ever so much braver than you realize!

That moot sounds like *so* much fun. Everyone writing! Eee.

[sophinisba]

And all the other ones were longer and sexier! It was really great. Seriously, people who hadn't written fic in years.

[aprilkat.livejournal.com]

The hobbits did have quite a clash with what they had previously known life to be. I hope Merry eventually gives himself a break, once he realizes what he had been up against.

The idea that his confidence would be shaken (along with his world-view) is one I hadn't considered before.

[sophinisba]

Oh, man, he has this terrible experience and then when he has to tell his friends about it there's this big stranger there acting all stern. It must have been awful! And my Merry is not very good at giving himself a break, poor thing.

[dreamflower]

Oh, this is *so* Merry! Of course he'd been brave, whether he knew it or not!

[sophinisba]

He is *so* brave! Don't you just love him to bits?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Merry is very brave. He just doesn't know it yet.

[sophinisba]

And he still manages to do the right thing anyway. He is so great.