New and Updated Fiction

A place to store short stories, ficlets and challenge responses that don't really warrant being archived on their own.

Newly Added: "The Good and the Bad". Young Aragorn discusses Noldorin history with Erestor.

My double drabbles based on B2MEM prompts! My self-imposed rule was that I had to use prompts from the same Bingo number/day together.

Based on the following cards: All OCs All The Time, Aspects of Aragorn, Color Burst: Purple, Elements of Elrond, Facets of Faramir, Fëanatics, Fun with Fëanorians, Maglor in History 1, Person vs. Self, and Textual Ghosts.

Individual pieces rated G - T. Check individual pieces for warnings.

***Hidden Figures Challenge: Chapters O72, B12, N44, N45, N32***

It was the most thrilling thing, to sail away and watch the coastline of Middle-earth dwindle and fade into a dark line on the horizon, and then to vanish completely.

Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the silver-studded leather flask, and Glorfindel tells him of his friendship with a hunter from Bree.

Glorfindel card B15 and I25 

Elanor Gamgee meets a mysterious figure from Mr Frodo's Red Book; Arwen is just enjoying hearing her grandmother tell stories again.

Lady Tanith is well known for her gardens and her potions.

There they made a refuge for all the enemies of the king, and a lordship independent of his crown. Umbar remained at war with Gondor for many lives of men..(‘Appendix A’ ~ The Lord of the Rings) 

War was supposed to end by the light of the Silmarils. Millenia later, another gem grows from a darkness that is all too familiar.

Written for B2MEM 2019 with the prompts: Maglor in the Manhattan Project, silmarils

Things are better. 

That's not difficult to acheive, but things are better. 

Bilbo asks Glorfindel about the Battle of Fornost, Glorfindel tells him of Eärnur, the last king of Gondor.

Summary: The First Kinslaying and its aftermath told by the fighters on both sides and the ones they left behind.

Written for B2MEM 2019 with the prompts: “the War of Telerin Aggression,” battered but not broken (Fëanorians), crippled by worry, bruise (purple), royal (purple), Fëanor was framed.

Side Note: As someone born in the South, but to proud Northern parents, I’ve heard a lot of opinions about the phrase this parody comes from. I was intrigued by this idea even before all the cards were out, and I ended up choosing this card at least partially because I wanted to see what would happen if B14 was ever called. I’m very enthused about writing this out from multiple perspectives.

Celebrian goes down to the river to gather willow bark.

A newly-sailed Elf counters advanced medicine in Valinor.

Usually, think of blue for Fingon but this one is red for blood, or Maedhros, or hearts broken.

"And when Valinor was full-wrought and the mansions of the Valar were established, in the midst of the plain beyond the mountains they built their city, Valmar of many bells. ..." The Silmarillion, "Of The Beginning of Days."

Of Mahtan Nerdanel learned much of crafts that women of the Noldor seldom used: the making of things of metal and stone. She made images, some of the Valar in their forms visible, and many others of men and women of the Eldar, and these were so like that their friends, if they knew not her art, would speak to them; but many things she wrought also of her own thought in shapes strong and strange but beautiful.  Morgoth’s Ring.

A collection of short ficlets about Princess Ancalimë, who will become the first Ruling Queen of Númenor.
Newly added: "Exit, Pursued", for B2MeM and the Hidden Figures challenge.

Maglor Feanorian, self-exiled and a kinslayer; alienated, feared and hated, by almost everyone. Upon travelling and living in the wilds of Middle-earth; to his surprise, he stumbles upon someone from his past.

Three scenes of Galadriel weaving, the things she learned and the things she taught. Written for Purimgifts 2019.

When a dumb song's made worse/by nonsensical verse/that's a parody

One time only in the history of Arda, by Luthien's song, was Mandos moved to pity.
...Self-pity counts, right?

Daeron reflects. 

Maglor sleeps. 

Bilbo and Glorfindel meet after the Council.

Curufin returns from Mandos. Telpaltië isn't sure she wants to see him.

A textual ghost is a son of Olwë's - another is Thranduil's mother... and this is why the daughter of the former finds herself in a position to become the latter... eventually.

Or, the First Kinslaying as seen by a young Telerin maiden.