New and Updated Poetry

Varda makes the stars. (Poem)

At Nienor's request, the women of Brethil share stories and songs about Haleth, the river's daughter, and those they loved. (Goldberry/Haleth, Goldberry/Nellas, Haleth/OFC)

Of the Feast of Reuniting at the pools of Ivrin it is said that the joy of that feast was long remembered in later days of sorrow.

Never shall I see the place,

Where Enel woke and Enelyë roamed.

A poem of a Sindar/Silvan elf in Valinor.

Two brothers and their thoughts about Arda.

Maeglin realizes that during his visits to the dwarves he felt less of a stranger than during his time in Gondolin.

A tragic poem for each tragic son of Fëanor - their glorious rise and disasterous fall. Fëanorian week 2017.

A poem about Eluréd and Elurín's tragic fate.

Ages from now, Daeron remains in the East, and he remembers.

(Or, a poem of one that felt too much and made terrible decisions because of it)

Maglor (or someone else but in my head it was maglor) walking through what is left of what was once Imladris.

Thingol bonds with his newborn daughter

Elwe/ Thingol enters a magical wood on his journey to the west, nightingales sing and you know the rest ;)

There is a scene in "Children of Hurin" in which Turin watches Fingon ride over the bridge near his home.
I believe, in canon, this is meant to be about Elves being remote and elusive--but, personally, I can't image Fingon on that bridge in white and silver with his knights unless he were actually dropping in to visit Hurin (or Morwen), even if it was on the way to somewhere else.
So--in my Gloom cycle--he does visit Hurin. ( Turin, I suppose, may be just too young to be in on most of the proceedings.)
Now, maybe Rian was there, too--and what more natural than that, as a maker of songs, she would make a song to welcome him?
And this bit of song here would have sounded a lot better when Rian herself sang it to the tune she had made up--all spontaneously, of course!

A sequence of tanka in which Nerdanel contemplates Varda..

A song (or, more properly, a poem) from Elemmírë to Írimë.

I live under your/domain. You rule with gentle/kisses, golden smiles.

From Indis to Nerdanel.

Tolkien-related poetry on various subjects, mostly written for B2MeM. (I've only cross-posted the Silmarillion poems here; the version on AO3 and MPTT includes the LOTR-related ones also.)

A poem from Aredhel to Goldberry.

Two (female) Sindar before the return of Morgoth from Valinor--one of them looking back on that time.

Fingon and Maedhros try to overcome what separates them, even death.

The Aldudénië was Elemmírë's formal, public lament after the Darkening of Valinor, but she also had private feelings which she put into her poetry. (Three poems by Elemmírë about the Darkening, the First Kinslaying, the Flight of the Noldor, and above all, her love for Lalwen.)

The smiths of Eregion prepare to face Sauron. (The narrator is Feredwen, an original character.)

A silly retelling of the Silmarillion in the style of Dr. Seuss.

Who were the Nine before they became Ringwraiths - and after? Intended as a collection of Wraith-centric pieces whenever they come to me.

An addition to the Fairy Tales series that also fits on SWG.