Ashes and Blue Roses

by Aria Breuer

Ever wonder how fanfics are brainstormed? How ideas come about? This fanfic poem collection focuses on story ideas for what my fanfic, The Blue Rose, would eventually become. A crossover between The Lord of the Rings and The Phantom of the Opera. Written in 2011. Revised and reposted in 2024.

5. Ashes and Blue Roses, Part 5

Part 5

The seductress' appearance in the dressing room
Stirred much tension between her, Frodo, and the tween
Frodo protected the tween for as long as he could
Against the seductress, for much she had seen

The seductress, this woman, used every last string she had
To draw Frodo back to her, it was her second resort
If only the tween hadn't stepped in first, without a stance
Retributions abounded, the seductress fled, in retort

Now freed of the seductress, Frodo and the hobbit tween left
The Opera House in the darkness, they sped
Towards a small pony, without reasons or rhymes
Frodo was left in confusion: why didn't he sigh?

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Time passed, Frodo and the tween returned
To the Shire, where Bilbo had now stirred
Sam greeted Frodo at daybreak
His gardener was curious as to how he escaped

With the tween from the seductress' lair
However, Frodo could not answer Sam's questions
He was too drawn to the seductress' striking stare
Frodo sped inside Bag End, without words or messages

He locked himself in his room, wouldn't come out
Not even for the hobbit tween, who saved his life
The other evening, there was so much to bear, resound
Yet he could not help what he did next, with all might

Courage drove him into the parlor
Where he found the tween, escorted her outside the smial
Before a garden, where a leafy green tree towered
Above the hobbit-hole, Frodo and the tween hadn't wandered a mile

Or two down the dirt road, before Frodo admitted he needed the tween
As a friend and hopeful companion, she agreed to his request
There was no sadness or ill deeds, so heartless and mean
No seductress waiting to take Frodo away and test

His willpower, so Frodo and the hobbit tween fled
Back inside Bag End, feeling relief spread in the air
They were unaware of the seductress around the bend
The woman knew something had gone amiss, she wanted to tear

Out her heart and stomp it on the ground
For all the hobbit, Frodo Baggins, had just done
To make this woman feel pain and pity towards his affairs
To which she had no choice, except to lure her mare