New and Updated Writing

Some decisions cut deeply.  A response to Tolkien Weekly Challenge prompt “cut”.  

Life after rebirth: Once around the sun, Glorfindel's first year in Imladris.

MEFA 2011: First Place: Character study, General

my thanks to Elfscribe

A meeting in early 14th-century Italy between a condottiere and a poet

A drabble for Tolkien Weekly Challenge - Curl.  A mother's love in Gondolin.  

The city of Gondolin is at peace, and yet several of its citizens harbour resentments, ambitions, and unnatural desires: Maeglin longs to assume his rightful position as Turgon's heir and Idril's spouse; Salgant hopes to avenge himself for past humiliations; and Ecthelion and Glorfindel indulge in deception even as they devote their lives to duty. Many secrets will be revealed, but only slowly and with much confusion, in this comedy of misunderstandings.  

Celegorm and Curufin learn of the Fall of Nargothrond--how do they react?

A "gap-filler", if you like, except that, this being the Silmarillion, there is almost more gap than story...

Why does Tulkas laugh, and is he the only Vala who does?  A response for HASA Nazgul of the Month for May - Heroes and Demons.  

On its final day, a woman awakens to face her fate in the doomed city of Ost-in-Edhil.  A response to the prompt "comb" in Tolkien Weekly Challenge.  

A challenge that assigned the phrase:  "Are you mad?"  This fictlet places my OFC, Helyanwe, into an early part of her childhood.  

Cultural differences among Elves did not sink with Beleriand

A friend told me that according to one place in HoME, Feanor gave the Elessar to Maedhros just before his death. If the gem was so important as being able to come into Feanor's mind in his last moment, that Maedhros should (casually??) send it to Fingon later would seem strange - unless he was instructed to. 

Before the waves bury Beleriand, the wind returns for a last visit to the destroyed hidden city of Goldolin.  

For Tolkien Weekly Challenge - Fell Creatures:  Balrog.  A drabble going back to the creation of all under the eye of Iluvatar.  

A Fingolfian springtime celebration by the shores of lake Mithrim, complete with gatecrasher.

The lament of Erendis, after Aldarion Prince of Numenor rideth hence from Erendis' country-home when returning from a long journey; and she realises what hath truly become of life. It is written in 1st person as Erendis speaking and thus neither of their names are actually mentioned.

Written in alliterative verse, after the style of the ancient Anglo-Saxon metres...

A drabble written for the Tolkien Weekly Challenge - Fell Creatures - Trolls.  

Summary: 

Battle plans are laid for the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.  

A lost young woman comes to Alqualondë with tales of pity and wonder, bringing hope, heartbreak, and most unexpectedly, the beginnings of healing.

At the Awakening, two brothers experience the good and bad about life on Middle Earth.  A drabble for Tolkien Weekly - Fell Creatures-Orcs.  

For Tolkien Weekly challenge, a drabble about dragons and the separation of loved ones.  

The love of two fallen Elves: Maedhros and Fingon.

A series of stories written for Back to Middle-earth Month 2011.

• New! "Jus Ad Bellum" ft. Elrond, Isiildur, and Maglor; 1,472 words
• NEW! "Things Unseen" ft. Elendil + Pharazon, 1,136 words
• NEW! "Three for the Elven-Lords II" ft. Cirdan, 200 words

At the end of the First Age, Elrond and Elros must choose between mortality and immortality.

For Tolkien Weekly’s Fell Beasts Challenge - Spiders

Because it is National Poetry Month, I present a poem drabble for Spiders...

Originally composed for HA's Nazgul of the Month Forum - April - Elrond the Bard, I wrote this story featuring a young Elrond learning about love and loss.  

Turgon looks back.