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Nerdanel recounts the development of her relationship with Fëanor - from their first proper meeting to married life. A fantasy of manners, pride, prejudice, love and craftsmanship.

Lalwen pays Elemmírë a sudden visit, trying to escape the growing divisions among the Noldor and her family. (250-word fixed-length ficlet.)

A kid from nowhere seeks out an old family friend...and that's when things get interesting. A retelling of the Fall of Gondolin set in the 1920s.

Curufin joins Celegorm for a hunt in Oromë's woods and will be touched by a sudden realization regarding the situation of the Noldor in Aman.

It takes place not long after the creation of the Silmarils, Celebrimbor is still a child and the feud with Fingolfin hasn't reached its peak yet, but Melkor's twisted murmurs have started to burn in the hearts of the Noldor.

Maglor still makes music, and Maedhros listens, when it is all they have left.

Finduilas, recovering from her wound among the folk of Brethil, finds a young woman on Haleth's grave-mound, and fate is changed. (Finduilas/Nienor; canon divergence AU.)

A conversation with Thorin Oakenshield; Glorfindel knows more of Orcrist's history than he wishes to tell. (Triple drabble.)

50 Prompts resulting in 50 AU Silmarillion based or related drabbles or ficlets.

There was a wound in his heart. Ingwion felt it tear; tear up his eyes and drench his mind in dark resignation and despair. Belatedly he realised the wound had been there an achingly long time and by forcibly involving himself in this he was reopening it. Or widening it.

With the Silmaril lost, Maglor is driven by Elwing’s words to look for her children.

Heavily rewritten, again:

This story first appeared in The Silmarillion Writer's Guild's Akâllabeth in August.

Summary, from the Akâllabeth in August page: 
Sauron has been taken prisoner by Pharazôn but nurtures an ever-growing influence. In the midst of a Númenor increasingly divided, a young Anárion works quietly after rebellion, discovering both love and betrayal in its midst.

Elwing's defiance at the Havens of Sirion.

The learned scholar Rúmil of Tirion meets a Hobbit and shares his opinion about Dwarves.

Idril has a troubling encounter with her cousin Maeglin on the morning of her betrothal to Tuor.

Young Fëanor is working in his masters forge when he gets an unexpexted visitor, with a very naughty idea. Now how is he to prevent Mahtan from discovering that his daughter loved to play with the apprentice's...hammer.

Morgoth's victory approaches, but Arien will still choose her own fate. (Arien/Ungoliant)

The women of Erendis's household tell each other stories on a rainy day. (Or, a tale from New England retold in Númenor.)

Míriel has always loved the Sea. After the Downfall of Númenor, the Lady of the Seas offers her refuge and comfort. (Tar-Míriel/Uinen)

Bits of memory from Elrond's early childhood. (Double drabble.)

Gwindor and Túrin on the shores of Ivrin. Things lost, things found, and some basic math.

How did Maglor pass Age after Age, never returning to the Elves or coming to their attention? My own musings on what might have happened.....

Celebrimbor sees his father for the last time.

After her death, Nienor is found by the ghost of Finduilas, who has been watching over Brethil, and offered a new existence.

(I tagged for suicide and character death to be safe, but the character deaths are all canonical and take place before the beginning of the story.)

Gorlim searches for Eilinel.

and now there was nothing left except Elwing, and Vingilot, and his mariners, and the Silmaril, and one last wild, desperate chance.