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prompt: "Why do the Elves of Lórien live in trees"

the song of the Mallorn

for Day 4 of Nancy Stohlman's November 2021, "On the edge of the mining town..."

Thranduil's friend, Tulusson, is an OC of mine and AfricanDaisy's, originally from a mining family in the mountains of Greenwood/Mirkwood.

Sometime after Thranduil sails to Tol Eressea, becoming a prince of Doriath 'Wain, he visits the nearby mining town of Angobel...

Write about something wrong that turns out to be right. (for day 3 of Nancy Stohlman's November 2021 challenge)

'The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.' -L.P. Hartley, 'The Go-Between'

Lalwen Finwiel reflects on market-days throughout her life, and how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Or do they?

So November 2's prompt from Nancy Stohlman was "Write about a man who has at least three cats." I can think of several of my Elves who I headcanon as having cats, but while 'man' could just mean 'male', I took it to mean Man, and weirdly the first one that came into my head as possibly having many cats was...Beren. I don't have any reason for this, except that Huan loves him so it would be funny for him to also be a cat person

So Nancy Stohlman's first prompt for November was "Write a story that takes place in darkness"... Don't know that it gets much darker than the Void. Post-LOTR, let's see how Morgoth, Sauron, and Saruman are doing...

A collection of outtakes and deleted scenes written for the Under Strange Stars series. Are you wondering how Elrohir's long journey came to be, or which alternative universes didn't make the cut? Want to read more about the characters? Take a look over here, at what might have been ...

Rog has heard about the Union of Maedhros and confronts Turgon about not telling them.

Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...

The Lady of the Mithrim and the spokesperson of the Tatyar Avari in the early days after the Mereth Aderthad.

The summer before her marriage, Belladonna goes in search of the Sea, and meets an elf.

The story of the leader of the Tatyar Avari in Beleriand and a reunion on the battlefield.

A Gondolin, Turgon déprime... Une parodie crack du Silmarillion façon Kaamelott et Sacré Graal. Livre terminé ! 

What if Varda was the fallen Vala instead of Melkor?

Tolkien. Mathematics.

The Great Plague sweeps Middle-earth, devastating Gondor. As his kingdom crumbles around him, dying King Telemnar summons the best healer in Middle-earth to his stricken son's mansion. The disease is dreadful, but Elrond soon finds that an even greater danger threatens the Crown Prince.
An Edgar Allan Poe-inspired spooky season special. I'll post a chapter a day until Halloween.
 

Celebrían & Elrond at the beginning of their journey.

It is not love yet, but there are roots for it to grow, and perhaps in time, it will be.

The wolf that kills Finrod has not always been a wolf.

A craftswoman weaves Feanorian flames, but Morgoth's flames prove deadlier.

She is haunted by flame, at first, even after her death.

Nolofinwe and Maedhros write each other letters while they live on opposite ends of Beleriand.

In Cuivienen, ancestral home of the elves, Imin, ancestor-founder of the Vanyar (originally called Minyar), makes a slightly tactless comment.

Morwen departs for Dor-lomin, with Rian and some other refugees of the House of Beor, while Emeldir and others remain in Brethil.

Beren in Nan Dungortheb.
And an in-universe explanation for a statement about spiders in The Hobbit.

Various one-shots about the Valar and Maiar. Most are very short and come from requests on my tumblr.

At the end of the War of Wrath, during the drowning of Beleriand, the Sea reaches ravaged Thargelion, where Caranthir once had his domain, and Lake Helevorn at the foot of Mount Rerir.

The joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow; and it was called Mereth Aderthad, the Feast of Reuniting -- The Silmarillion

Fingolfin invites all the elves of Beleriand to a feast. It is a very good excuse to see Maedhros again.