New and Updated Fiction

Hithlum is lost and Fingon is dead.  In the aftermath an aunt and nephew have a last meeting and parting.

The news of the Second Kinslaying arrives on Balar among the Falathrim. They are all shocked and horrified, but for one of them, it poses a specific problem.

Maglor assists Maedhros with pain therapy, but his bedside manner is lacking.

Indis yearns to stir the sleeping queen of the Noldor.

"They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!"

"Whence did the trolls get them, I wonder?" said Thorin looking at his sword with new interest.

"I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."

Thorin pondered these words. "I will keep this sword in honour," he said. "May it soon cleave goblins once again!"

From "A Short Rest," The Hobbit

A very great man dies, and asks if he can be of more help to the universe because it has been so good to him.

...Eru Illúvatar takes him up on the offer.

Thranduil names an unexpected successor.

Music was Maglor’s first love, but when he had decided to learn to make his own instruments, he had begun with wood—and had fallen in love with that, too.

Bëor: Halt!  Who goes there?
Finrod:  It is I, Felagund, son of Finarfin of Valinor.  King of Nargothrond, builder of Minas Tirith, sovereign of all Dorthonion!
Bëor: Pull the other one!
Finrod: I am!  And this is my trusty servant, Edrahil.

Aerandir, a mariner who accompanied Earendil on his voyages, finds himself at loose ends when he arrives in Valinor after the War of Wrath. 

He is haunted by an encounter during one of their earlier voyages and comes to a decision..

Xie Lian and Hua Cheng accidentally visit Nargothrond during its fall and help out.

Maglor, a Jedi in hiding, is a mechanic for the Rebellion during A New Hope.

Meister Eder is comissioned to repair a staff. Pumuckl does not seem to like the customer.

Nimruzimir's father interrupts him while he is reading the most recent novel in his favorite series.

Maglor's westward odyssey nearly fails when he is led astray by an enthralling light and song in the depths of the sea.

On a walk down the beach in the early hours of the morning, Maglor stumbles upon a body. And then the body comes back to life. Things sort of spiral from there.

A crossover with The Old Guard (2020 film).

One such evening gathering, however, brought a new acquaintance to the Elliots’ attention. He was known to Lady Dalrymple, and had connections to the De Bourgh family, and to the Darcys of Pemberly, and happened to have come to Bath on business that week. “He is a most marvelous musician, however, “Lady Dalrymple told Miss Elliot. “Perfection at the pianoforte!"

Celegorm reflects on Curufin, Aredhel and Celebrimbor.

Early in the Second Age Finarfin is visited by someone he barely knows.  It's awkward that she is his sister Findis.

Tuor tries some creative tactics to convince the people of Gondolin that The End Is Near. Along the way, he learns some of the lore and wisdom of the Elves.

Galadriel sat at her loom and began to weave. As she passed the shuttle through the warp she cast her thoughts to the natural world, to the many varying hues of grey of the stones, of the myriad greens of the trees and the grass, of the uncountable shades of brown in between.

In Valinor and homesick for Imladris, Celebrían decides to build a new one.

"Oh no, I just had a horrible thought. Does the new city have a name yet? And is it ‘New Vinyamar’?”

A decades-long saga about the naming of the hidden city of Gondolin.

A series of acrostics based on the letters provided in the Tengwar challenge, telling the story of one enterprising Telerin merchant.

Merry Brandybuck and Estella Bolger named their first child Boromir, after the hero of the War of the Ring. But the young hobbit's dearest secret is the name she wishes she had. One quiet day, after finding an unusual necklace in the cellar, she begins to see visions of an ancient past that whisper to her of ways she might heal a poisoned pond that has never recovered since the Scouring of the Shire. Can she unlock the secrets of a long-ago chemister and his lover and find the courage to stay true to herself along the way?