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You're all hoarding the plotbunnies. Stop it. I know you all have minds brimming with evil, fanged, bunnies just waiting to leap on unsuspecting bystanders like FLUFFY DEATH FROM ABOVE.

So (in a tribute to my boredom), here's a couple of themes to get you going:

1. Giant, soul-eating AUs. Seeing as I'm already kneedeep in one of these, I might as well inflict some suggestions on the rest of you:

A) Faramir, not Boromir, is the one who turns up at Rivendell and ends up in the Fellowship.

B) Gil-Galad survives the Last Alliance - and Elrond doesn't. (I have a thing for balancing acts in AUs. Bonus points if Elrond threw himself

stupidly heroically into Sauron's path to save his King.)

C) Arvedui's claim to the throne was not rejected by the council of Gondor and he succeeded Eärnur as King of Gondor. (And continued on as King of Arthedain, presumably, until Angmar smushed it.)

1. Stories that could center around an interesting, relatively canonical OC, that would not make Jen reach for the spork:

A) The story of Legolas' mother. Most times in fanfic she is being 1) abused by Thranduil, 2) cheating on Thranduil, 3) dying in childbirth, 4) being killed by spiders, or 5) leaving for Valinor. At some point there must have been courtship and marriage and Thranduil writing embarassing love poetry.

B) The Last Alliance: 'All living things were divided that day, and some of every kind, even beasts and birds, were found in either host, save the Elves only.'. Put a Dwarf in Sauron's armies at the Last Alliance.

That's me done... for now. Any other ideas along these lines?