New and Updated Fiction

The Unfinished Tales mention that Celeborn and Galadriel live in Rivendell some time in the second age. Elrond wonders why they have come.

As the end of their journey nears, Rían remembers Dorthonion.

Moments on a Fëanorian’s journey, from the Oath to the fall of Ost-in-Edhil. (A sequence of six drabbles.)

After Lúthien’s capture by Celegorm, the Silmarillion says “Celegorm sent messengers to Thingol urging his suit” and “Thingol was wrathful” (understandably!). But what happened to the messengers? (A sequence of eight drabbles.)

Celebrimbor, his family, and unfixable problems. (Triple drabble.)

Elrond remembers an old song.

Celebrimbor learns a painful lesson in love. 

Written for Smut Swap 2016. 

Celebrimbor, Lord of Eregion recieves an emissary from the West claiming to be a Vanya smith. The teachings he comes bearing are controversial; how to imprint thoughts and wills into matter using Song, and words of power. As the emissary gains support with king and court, their relationship becomes entangled with secrets and the weight of the past. 

Prodigal, you have given me love – therefore I to you give love!
O unspeakable passionate love.

Maedhros navigates new realities -- with the help of Fingon and Maglor.

Written for Smut Swap 2016. 

Uncanonical take on Caranthir's canonical wife: in my 'verse she is not an elf.
(No, not Haleth--and not a dwarf either, although I like that version.)

What the Queen does and leaves undone, the day before the Downfall of Númenor. The Armada sets sail, and Míriel waits for the shape of their doom to reveal itself.

A notorious future queen advances her plans. (Drabble. Written in 2012.)

Emlinn, a Sinda, becomes Maglor's student and experiences the end of the Siege of Angband and the Battle of Sudden Flame.

Now added: Bonus chapter: Like a Friendly Touch Among the Crowd (ft. Elrond).

Illustrated by Alasse for B2MeM 2012: see link at end of Chapter Two!

Kindly nominated for MEFAs 2011 by Angelica. It won a Honorable Mention in the category "Elves: House of Finwë" and a Smaug's Treasure award.

In Ar-Pharazôn's palace on Númenor, Isildur's wife encounters peril, temptation, and unlooked-for help. (Written in 2011.)

A woman of Númenor on the sea, in doubt and hope: Isildur's wife after the Downfall. (Written in 2011.)

In Númenor before the Downfall, Isildur watches over his treasure. (Written in 2011.)

She had died in bloodstained Menegroth and woke again in flowering Lórien, and now she did not know what to do.

Curufin meets his son for the first time, and he isn't prepared. Or so he thinks.

The night before Fëanor and his sons leave for Formenos, nerdanel remembers her life with her husband and ponders the choice she made not to follow him in exile and how it'll change all their lives. She tries to find hope and courage in the midst of resenment, distress and determination.
Inspired by October 2013 challenge "Turning Point."

Two pieces featuring Findis, eldest daughter of Finwe, and her choices after the Darkening.

I. A Season on Taniquetil (Findis, Fingon; quadrabble)

II. The Hermit (Findis, Finarfin)

Kyron Tramell is a black high school student waking up everyday in a caged life of cocaine fumes, gunshots and abuse at the hands of thugs and a drug addicted stepfather. Then one day he opens his eyes to a magical reality. Kyron's a changeling, the son of a Noldorin Prince will his heritage & romance save him from the vengeance his heart craves for past bullies?

On the autumn equinox the first men to arrive in Beleriand dance and sing to remember how and why they fled over the mountains. On the night of masks, a young Beren is dragged before the throne.

Companion piece to The Brides of Death.

Madness can be transmitted; or at least, the memory of madness can. When Nerdanel finds herself alone, she finds that the line between memory and madness is much more easily crossed than she ever thought was possible.

(Also cabbages, and kings.) Ficlets which are, even by my standards, too short to stand alone (and aren't part of a series).

#6: Finduilas contemplates sickness and Nienor.

Helcaraxe spares no one.