The OTHER Lays of Beleriand by Aiwen

I am glad you are enjoying this.  There are more where this came from which will get put up here in a while.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  Inspiration for this came from reading about sewage treatment for work while my mind kept trying to wander off into the lay of Leithian.  The two sort of got tangled together.  Thank you for the feedback; there will be more in this series although they're rather variable.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.  There will be more.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  For the record, I have no reason to think Glorfindel was particularly vain, but the plot bunny would not go away. Thank you for the feedback.

I find JRR Tolkein had a tendency to avoid talking about such things.  I've always wondered where most of the elvish kingdoms grew their food - nargothrond is an exception, since he actually describes fields of all sorts of crops growing above ground.  As for dealing with sewage, that is several ranks down from farming in photogenicity.  Thank you for the feedback.

Glad you liked it.  It was fun to write.

I'm glad that you enjoyed this and found it funny.  Most poetry leaves a lot of life out, doesn't it?

I'm glad you're enjoying it.  I was slightly worried I might offend some of Glorfindel's fans, but if I have nobody's made their displeasure known.

For the record, I don't think Glorfindel was vain.  As far as I can tell, wearing long hair was standard for male elves in Middle-earth and Gondolin was attacked in the middle of a festival.  But sometimes a plot idea will not leave me alone, and this one was short and easy to write down.  How could I avoid writing it?  Thank you very much for your feedback.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  This is what happens when you have to read about sewage disposal systems for work but you'd much rather be thinking about Middle-earth.

I'm glad you liked it; it was fun to write.  The footnote is because I think some of the Gondolin exiles might've taken offense at a poem like this, especially as it was written by someone who wasn't there. 

The fungus covered log exists because I had to find something that would rhyme with bested by a dog, and I thought there must be a lot of fungused logs in Taur-nu-fuin.  I'm glad you enjoyed it.

What is Jackson Pollocked and how does one do it to a monitor?  I'm glad you found it funny.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  Thank you for the feedback.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  I haven't done much alliterative poetry so it was an experiment.  I had noticed J.R. R tolkien used alliterative forms in some of his Lays of Beleriand so I thought I'd try it.

The fungus-covered log exists because it rhymed with bested by a dog, and I was trying to figure out what sort of thing present in Taur-nu-Fuin could possibly rhyme. I think I'll probably keep the serious pieces in here for now if there are any more of them. I'm glad you enjoyed them.   

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm not quite sure where I got the image  - it may just have been that raven rhymed with craven, and the whole idea of Morgoth as a misbegotten raven was too bizarre not to use. 

I'm glad you like them. I get some very strange ideas stuck in my head sometimes. 

I'm glad you like this - I only just spotted this review, sorry for the many-years wait. Yes, the laundry orc's life is not a happy one, happy one. (if you don't recognise this reference, check out Gil-bert and Sullivan's song A policeman's lot is not a happy one to find out what I'm talking about)