New and Updated Fiction

Miriel spends a morning by the foot of Laurelin, thinking of the son she is carrying.

An elf awoken at Cuivienen looks back at a simpler way of life.

Written for Dawn Felagund's 2007 birthday, in response to a request for something about Fingon and Maedhros later in their life than the period I have been covering in my Maitimo and Findekáno story cycle. Fingon visits Maedhros at Himring Hill, after the Dagor Aglareb during the watchful peace of the Siege of Angband.

MEFA 2008, First Place, Romance: Elven Lands

A tale of loss and love in the wilds of Beleriand

The end of the Third Age is seen through the eyes of Olórin, who observes it as a completion of events of the past ages of Arda.

Indis, Nerdanel, and Anairë on their grief and their duty to help in healing the Noldor.

A series of vignettes about the first rising of the Sun, from the perspectives of different characters. Check the Table of Contents for more specific summaries and warnings. MEFA 2008 nominee.

“For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.”

-Homer

Maglor thinks back on the wife and child he has lost, wondering if they have been reborn across the sea

Celegorm gets a puppy as a present.

A retelling of H.C Christiansen’s The Match Girl. It is Midwinter festival in a village of men and one lost little Elven boy who makes his living selling sticks for the fire is left alone in the cold.

A fairy tale version telling of the fates of Elured and Elurin after the fall of Doriath.

Tuor’s second day in Gondolin brings him outside where he, for the first time, meets Idril alone and falls in love.

Celeborn remembers the first time he saw Galadriel

Nerdanel is finding motherhood a challenge after her first son is born and is struggling to come to terms with her new life as a mother.

Meleth has to come to terms with the changes of her life after the fall of Gondolin and while fulfilling her duties she loses Earendil...

Elured disappears and leaves Elurin alone one winter day, sparking hurt and anger.

Maglor remembers his long lost brother.

Fingon/Maedhros smut on one of their few mornings together.

Maedhros before the attack on Doriath  

It is Midwinter and Maedhros refuses to celebrate and scoffs at Maglor’s attempts to cheer him up. Later that night he is visited by the ghost of his dead lover and later of three ghosts. Yes, it is a rewrite of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol.     

Fingon has kept his feelings for Maedhros hidden for many years but under an unexpected visit from his cousin he finds himself unable to hide them any longer.

Maedhros recalls his first meeting with Fingon and reminisce about other times during their years as friends and lovers.

The story follows Glorfindel and Ecthelion’s relationship from the move from Nevrast until the fall of Gondolin in a series of four short stories. The crumbling relationship between Glorfindel and Ecthelion is used to illustrate the growing divisions in the hidden city until its fall.

The story follows Fingon across Helcaraxe from just before the ships burn at Losgar until the rising of the moon.