New and Updated Poetry

Found in the personal collections of Barahir II, transcribed and translated into Westron from its original High Adûnaic. A fragment of a poem for Ancalimë, from a poetess who loved her.

Elrond, looking back.

"...love grew after between them, as little might be thought..."

The refugees from Dorthonion arrive in Dor-lomin.
Rian attempts to embrace their new environment, while her cousin Morwen mourns.

Who would dream to drain a lake? 

An attempt to answer this question, posed by my prompt, for Middle-earth.

A few short reflections.

Fëanor tells Melkor to get off his lawn. An imagined passage from the Noldolantë of Maglor.

Fills for the March 2021 Silmarillion Writer's Guild bingo challenge, based on W words edited by JRRTolkien from the Oxford English Dictionary. Poems, drabbles and half drabbles ranging from silly to solemn.

A short ballad concerning Morwen, summarising the tragic fate of her family.

I did the entire "Words of Wit and Whimsey" bingo card.

The Oath of Fëanor, translated by the international cast of the SWG! Vocal versions to be added!

In the days of Fingolfin and Malach Aradan, an unnamed scout of the Third House of the Edain (later called the House of Hador) returns from a long journey in the North to Hithlum.

Having traveled North and up a mountain in Aman, Fingon builds himself a house, and works on putting himself back together. A drabble sequence. Follows Aurora: Seeking the Northern Sky.

Poems that are drabbles, drabbles that are poems.

Wandering Maglor dreams of Arda Marred.

Do not look in the bitter glass... 

A poem drawing on the account of the song battle of Finrod Felagund with Sauron in the First Age. 

A poem against pessimism and disillusionment, if you will. 

I also had the Mirror of Galadriel and Galadriel's advice to Sam in mind. 

Doriath welcomes the spring.

An anthology for stories set in Numenor or involving Numenoreans.

Latest added: Became Estranged from the Eldar (drabble set in the time when the Shadow fell on Numenor)

Roots, knowledge, and pain, a tangle of possibility

Poèmes et chansons elfiques sur le passage du temps.

At the Feast of Reuniting, Fingolfin finds himself missing Anaire.

A smitten young elf declares his love with a poem.

Luckier. By whose definition, luckier?

Fingon, unfocused, distracted and distressed. A double-drabble and three drabbles.

Whither away to the stars, my love

"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould." ~ Valaquenta

A philosophical question on the nature of decoration, raised at a celebration of the Spring Equinox in Nargothrond, in the years of (relative) peace.