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The scene that couldn't get out of my head after reading the amazing "fire to sate the appetite".
Inspired by the above; Fëanor is captured, Melkor is happy, Sauron is so very jealous.

Traveling in Valinor can be cold. Fëanor and Nerdanel have a solution. Well she does at least. Feanor's pleasantly surprised. 

Caranthir and his lake, at the beginning and the end.

Ancalime in the hills of Emerie.

And music.

This was written for the SWG 5th Birthday celebration based on the Theme: Five Things, updated to include numerous B2MeM 2012 prompts. Chapter 8 added (30 March 2018).

The last stand of the Entwives and the burning of the Brown Lands.

Little Makalaurë just finished composing his first melody and feels the need to share with his eldest brother. 

In the Halls of the Dead there are many silences.

Eowyn visits the Museum of Middle-Earth in Minas Tirith after the wedding of Aragorn and Arwen, where she meets Galadriel. 

Of artistry, women's bodies, and loss. 

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Week after week, she worked at it, chisel in hand. Her hands were worn and bruised, the skin dry and cracked with stone dust, her nails broken. Her boots and leggings were covered in a thick paste of slurry, and even her tunic and other clothes were frankly unclean. Her hair was stuffed carelessly into a rough cap, from which it escaped in ragged ends. 

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Each Fëanorian gets their own headcanon and short story of 600 words or less for this character exploration!

Written for Fëanorian Week 2018.

Niënor Níniel puts her life back together after Túrin's death. 

I've often thought about Nerdanel's life after her husband and sons departed for Arda, leaving her behind in Aman.  This story (written for Slashy Santa's recent Valentine exchange) imagines the beginnings of her separation from Feanor - in her mind at least, after doubts about the marriage being successful were sown - and before her special relationship with Anaire had begun.  I have imagined the relationship to be a romantic one, although in the beginning there was a definite physical bond between the two women.

Fëanor was always fascinated by Nerdanel's freckles... the stars in her skin form constellations all her own - or are they?

Elwing receives some unexpected news.

As Sauron’s influence grows in Númenor, Míriel and a scholar of the Faithful discuss the translation of Elvish poetry.

Under the growing shadows of Angmar and amid her prophecies, Malbeth loves Fíriel and bides her time. 

The Valar call the Elves of Aman to prepare for the War of Wrath. Amid fraught Telerin politics, Anairë is conflicted.

In which Uinen struggles with what to do with Maglor wandering the shore of her Seas, the Oath that still clings to him, the Silmaril he keeps dropping into her domain, and her feelings in general.

Nerdanel sees an instrument that her second born used to play and remembers. 

A collection of fills written for rthstewart's 3 Sentence Ficathon in 2013 and 2015, for Tolkien-based prompts. (Mostly Silmarillion, with one for Farmer Giles of Ham and Sir Orfeo, and one non-Tolkien crossover.)

Chapters 2 & 3: More Tolkien-based fills written for caramelsilver's 3 Sentence Ficathon in 2016 and 2017.

A Hero's Journey Matryoshka challenge story, featuring the head gardener of Indis' home in Vanyamar.

Set in Aman, post War of Wrath, when the arrival of Indis and Findis turn the lives of the household upside down - and leads one maiden to lose her heart to another.

Daeron discovers Lúthien's love for Beren. In jealousy and grief, he casts a spell of silence over Doriath.

Belen, son of Beor, speaks of his youth. 

(For 2018 B2MeM. Music of the Waters. 

Also a story I was going to use for Breaking Boundaries.)

While exploring Tol Fuin, Eluréd meets an albatross. They chat.