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Title: A Long, Unexpected Drabble (#1726)
Author: ElenaTiriel
Chapters: 1

Archive: Tolkien
Category: Palantir Section
Description: Meta-drabble: The challenge, in honor of Bilbo Baggins' birthday, was to write exactly one hundred and eleven words featuring: a bottle of wine, a birthday cake, the number 111, fireworks and pipe-weed.
Published: 29 Mar 2005
Updated: 29 Mar 2005
Warnings:
Type: Humour
Characters:


Chapter 1 - A Long, Unexpected Drabble

A Long, Unexpected Drabble

"Self-indulgent twaddle," mutters the struggling scribbler to herself, though she only uses words like "twaddle" when earnestly endeavoring to write top-notch Tolkien fan fiction.

"I love birthday cake!" she muses, "Wonder if chocolate cake with rum buttercream frosting is mentioned in canon?" She shakes her head. "But I never developed a taste for wine. And pipe-weed? Ugh!"

"Concentrate!" she admonishes herself. "Make it Tolkienesque! And canonical!"

Adding up word counts nervously -- must have exactly 111! Cut ten here, two there. Counting and re-counting, getting different totals each time... What an impractical obsession!

"Fireworks! I forgot fireworks! How odd... I've always loved Gandalf's fireworks..."

"There!" she yells triumphantly. "Finished! One hundred and"
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